Barbara Smith Dearborn: A Retrospective

Silver Center for the Arts Lobby 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Dates: June 1 – August 8, 2024 Closing Reception: August 8, 2:00 – 4:00pm Barbara Smith Dearborn was born in 1935 in Long Island, New York and moved to Plymouth during her teenage years. She graduated from Plymouth High School in 1953. She met her husband Denny Dearborn at Plymouth State (then Plymouth Teachers College). Barbara majored in mathematics, and ...

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IMPACT Children’s Theatre

Elizabeth Cheney Studio Theatre

IMPACT, Jean's Playhouse professional Touring Children’s Theatre Company performs a different fairytale every week for six weeks, starting after 4th of July weekend. Each production travels to different venues throughout the state of NH and features a professional cast of 5 actors, plus set pieces, costumes, props, original music, and more! The 45-minute adaptations are written to be enjoyed by ...

Free

Cultivating Resilience: A broad perspective on trauma, resilience, and early childhood mental health

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

This lecture will explore various perspectives on resilience, trauma, and trauma prevention. Dr. Bayrak will approach these topics through a comprehensive lens, incorporating neurobiology, child development, physical and mental health, culture, and community. Her talk will emphasize the importance of early childhood and early relationships in cultivating resilience, and she will reflect on how storytelling can aid in meaning-making and ...

Free

Advice To The Players Presents: The Tempest

Elizabeth Cheney Studio Theatre

The Tempest takes us to an island where nature overflows its usual bounds and spirits take shape. The trees and frog-filled pond of Quimby Park will be our backdrop, as befits a story in which the natural world is abundantly alive.  The performance of The Tempest will feature Charls Sedgwick Hall in the role of Prospero, as well as many other ...

$10 – $20

Meghan Donahue, Faculty Recital

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Acacia Chamber Music. Dedicated to expanding and promoting chamber music in uncommonly heard combinations. Core members include Meghan Donahue, clarinet, Leslie Neighbor Stroud, flute, and Matthew Odell, piano. For more information please contact Meghan Davis at acaciamusic@outlook.com. Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AcaciaChamberMusic

Free

Aroma Duo

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Please join us for the first of our Thursday evening "Silver Chamber Series" concerts featuring The Aroma Duo. Pianist Tianhong Yang & Cellist Johnny Mok will perform music by Liszt, Schnittke, and Piazzolla.  The concert will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 3, 2024, in the Smith Recital Hall at the Silver Center for the Arts and will feature the ...

Free

Sidore Lecture: John Perkins

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

More information tba This event is free and unticketed

Free

James Fernando Jazz Trio

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Hailed as a “prodigiously gifted composer and virtuoso pianist,” James Fernando creates music that lies at the intersection of jazz, classical, and electronic music. He relies on his genre-expanding original compositions to deliver thought provoking and exciting performances on some of the world’s most renowned stages. The Berklee College of Music graduate has five albums to his name and has ...

$14 – $22

Lucky Stiff

Hanaway Theatre 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.  Music by Stephen Flaherty.  Based on the novel, The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair. The story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced ...

$14 – $28

Eagle Pond Author’s Series Presents: Todd Robinson

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Todd Robinson will read from his poetry collections, Mass for Shut-Ins and Note at Heart Rock, as well as from new work. There will be a Q&A and book-signing with the poet.  This reading is free and open to the public. Books will be sold at the reading by the Plymouth State University Barnes & Noble Bookstore. The poet will ...

Free

Rhapsody in Blue: Symphonic Band Concert

Hanaway Theatre 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Please join the Plymouth State University Symphonic Band for the first concert of the academic year. The centerpiece of the concert will be a performance in celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, featuring PSU piano faculty Tianhong Yang. The Rhapsody was composed for dance band leader Paul Whiteman’s “Experiment in Modern Music,” a concert that ...

$12

Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra

Hanaway Theatre 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra presents "Romantic Revelations" November 2, 2024 7pm at Hanaway Theatre Guest Artist: Ian Jang, cello Extraordinary romantic-era pieces including the lesser known, but stunningly beautiful Symphony No. 2 by Vasily Kalinnikov and the exciting Hebrides Overture by Mendelssohn. We also celebrate LRSO's 2024 Concerto Competition Winner, cellist Ian Jang, performing the 1st movement of the glorious ...