Lamar University College of Fine Arts & Communication

Lamar University’s A Cappella Choir and Grand Chorus will celebrate the promise of tomorrow as they usher in the Yuletide season at the annual Lamarissimo! holiday concert. From centuries-old classics to best-loved songs and carols, the ensembles will greet the holidays in festive fashion, heralding an afternoon of be...auty both musical and visual. The performance begins at 3 p.m., sponsored by JK Chevrolet-Subaru. James Han, Lamar’s new director of choral activities, will make his Lamarissimo! debut as conductor of the A Cappella Choir and Grand Chorus. This is the 20th Anniversary Season for Lamar’s acclaimed series of off-campus performances.Read More

Lamar University’s Wind Ensemble and Concert Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, in the University Theatre. Under the direction of Scott Deppe, Lamar’s director of bands, and graduate assistant Michelle Melancon, the bands will perform selections by Aaron Copland, Clifton Williams and Frank Ticheli. Gues...t conductor Brenda Legendre, director of bands at Lumberton Middle School, will lead the wind ensemble in Kenneth J. Alford’s "The Voice of the Guns." Admission is free. For more information, visit lamar.edu/music or call (409) 880-8144.Read More

Directed by Rebecca Stone Thornberry
8 p.m. Nov. 12 - 14, 16 - 17; 2 p.m. Nov. 15
Tickets are $10 general admission; $7 for senior citizens, students and LU faculty/staff; and $5 for LU students.
Box office: (409) 880-2250

All in the Timing is a collection of six comedic one-act plays by David Ives that explore themes of l...anguage, identity, space and time.

Sure Thing is a classic of contemporary comedy: two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes and faux pas on the way to falling in love.

Words, Words, Words, recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet, and asks: what would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?

The Universal Language brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stammer, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love.

Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.

The Philadelphia presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants.

Variations on the Death of Trotsky shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head. (Source: Dramatists Play Services)

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Season tickets are $40 adult, $20 student (K-12). Individual tickets are $15 adult, $10 student (K-12). Admission is free to students of Lamar University in Beaumont with ID.
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The Lamarissimo! Concert Series will shine the spotlight on Lamar University faculty artists when the 20th Anniversary Season conti...nues Thursday, Nov. 5. To celebrate this milestone, the program will feature music of the Americas – a colorful sound portrait showcasing Lamar faculty talents in solo and ensemble performances. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., sponsored by American Valve & Hydrant. The audience will enjoy works by George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim and other composers, with the repertoire running the musical gamut from classics to show tunes to jazz.
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The jazz bands concert features two bands under the direction of Wayne Dyess, director of jazz studies at Lamar. His newest ensemble, In Flight, opens the concert with “Take the 'A' Train,” composed by Billy Strayhorn, arranged by Gordon Goodwin. Other selections by In Flight include “Blue Skies” by Irving Berlin, Da...ve Wolpe’s “All I Ask” and “Apple Strudel & Cheese,” “The Jody Grind” by Horace Silver and “Prime Time” by Sammy Nestico. Lamar ‘A’ Jazz Band then takes the stage with Don Menza’s “Beulah Witch,” the “Baytrail Shuffle” by Maria Schneider, Gordon Goodwin’s “Whodunit?” and “Plunger Mute Syndrome” by John Clayton.

Admission is free.Read More