Celebration of Life: Dick Hanaway

Hanaway Theatre 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Thirty years ago, Richard (Dick) J. Hanaway danced the Tango with his wife Betty atop Mount McKinley - the highest point in Alaska, and his third continental summit. On April 20, 2023, Dick (88) died at his home in Holderness, NH, with Betty by his side as she had been for 40 years. Dick was born on October 15, 1934 ...

Eagle Pond Authors’ Series: Cheryl Savageau

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Cheryl Savageau will read from her poetry collections Dirt Road Home and Mother/Land, which explore facets of New England / Indigenous place and identity. Siobhan Senier writes, in Studies in American Indian Literature, that Savageau’s poetry “comes out of a long line of Abenaki writing traceable all the way back to the precontact birchbark maps called awikhiganak” and “challenges readers ...

Free

Plymprov Presents: Hittin’ the Books!

Smith Recital Hall

"Plymprov is back! Come to watch Plymouth State's one and only improv performance group for a night of laughs and wild gags. The show is rated R and will run for roughly an hour to an hour and a half. Come on in and join the fun!"

Free

Faculty Recital: Hannah Murray & Justin McCarthy, “The World in Her Hands; music of contemporary female composers”

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

"The World in Her Hands; music of contemporary female composers," is a celebration of songs in many American musical traditions including music theater, cabaret, jazz, and spirituals. Featured composers include Georgia Stitt, Goldrich & Heisler, Christine Jobson and Margaret Bonds. Hannah Bio Hannah Murray, lyric soprano, received her B.A. in vocal performance from Connecticut College, and her M.M. in vocal ...

Free

Harmony and Humor: Silver Series Homecoming Headliner

Hanaway Theatre 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

A medley of performances, featuring Boston Anthem Singer Todd Angilly '99 (Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity) performing American standards from Sinatra and others, Boston Comedian Carolyn Plummer '97 (Delta Zeta sorority), and a Plymouth State student performers. PSU Students- first hundred tickets are FREE!  Use this code at checkout: HOMECOMING5 This show is rated PGAll proceeds benefit the Angilly Opportunity Scholarship at ...

Emerging: Annual PSU Student Art Exhibition

This exhibition celebrates the multitude of talent, work, and passion of PSU student artists and the total spectrum of PSU’s Art and Design program. Every year, students are invited to submit their best work, no matter where they are in their development. There will be a reception on October 11th from 4-6pm in the Silver Center Lobby

Recurring

War of the Worlds

Hanaway Theatre 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

War of the Worlds:  The Panic Broadcast by Joe Landry A thrilling homage to radio’s golden age and atimely reminder of what fear can do to a society. An alien invasion throws humanity into chaos in the classic sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds--but all it took to cause real-life panic in the streets was Orson Welles's 1938 radio ...

$10 – $25

Sidore Lecture: Internal Alchemy & External Play Birth the Curiously Engaged Life How Self-Creation and Inquiry Come together in Shanta Lee’s World of Images, Words and Life Practice

Internal Alchemy & External Play Birth the Curiously Engaged Life How Self-Creation and Inquiry Come together in Shanta Lee's World of Images, Words and Life Practice What is the internal alchemy needed to engage in a curious life? How can the concept of engaging with the unknown, unseen and intangible co-mingle with ideas of self creation through the mediums of ...

Free

Eagle Pond Authors’ Series: Farnaz Fatemi

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

Iranian American poet Farnaz Fatemi will read from her award-winning 2022 collection, Sister Tongue, as well as from new work. The poems in Sister Tongue explore negative spaces—the distance between twin sisters, between lovers, between Farsi and English, between the poet’s upbringing in California and her family in Iran. In her foreword to the book, former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy ...

Free

All New England Choral Festival

Hanaway Theatre 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

"Passages"  150 voices from 30 high schools around New England come together with PSU Choirs for a day of collaboration and music.  This year, the festival choir will take you on a journey of passageways, beit rivers, roads, or time itself.  The festival is also featuring the compositions of Moira Smilie, who will be coming to work with the ensembles throughout their ...

$10

Senior Recital: Lily Rousseau, Bass

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

To complete their music education, PSU Music Education seniors must pass a jury performance. Once they pass, they are welcome to show off their work in a Senior Recital. This event is free and open to the public.

Free

Senior Recital: Delia Berowitz, Flute

Smith Recital Hall 114 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire

To complete their music education, PSU Music Education seniors must pass a jury performance. Once they pass, they are welcome to show off their work in a Senior Recital. This event is free and open to the public.

Free