Tickets and Reservations
Call (413) 585-ARTS (2787)
Email: boxoffice@smith.edu
Dance Concerts
$9 general admission,
$5 students and seniors
Theatre Productions
$8 general admission,
$5 students and seniors
Call (413) 585-ARTS (2787)
Email: boxoffice@smith.edu
Dance Concerts
$9 general admission,
$5 students and seniors
Theatre Productions
$8 general admission,
$5 students and seniors
Smith College - Performing Arts
This annual fall performance will showcase the end-of-semester presentations of original dance works by first-year MFA students. The one-night concert is free and no reservations will be accepted so arrive early as seating is limited.
For more information:
Tel.: 413.585.ARTS
Energetic and startling demonstrations of original choreography by first-year MFA dance students
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, December 15th
Location:Scott Dance Studio, Scott Gymnasium, Smith College
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Las Meninas
Wednesday-Saturday,
December 9-12
8:00 p.m.
Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre
Tickets: $8 general, $5 students/seniors Dec. 9 is Dollar Night for all students.
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Ellen Kaplan
A Yoruba proverb states: “The white man who made the pencil also made the eraser.” From a forgotten history, playw...right Lynn Nottage creates a hilarious and heart-wrenching play about a romance between Louis XIV’s Queen, Marie-Therese and Nabo Sensugali, an African dwarf sent as a gift for her royal amusement. These two lonely people find comfort in an illicit love, for which Nabo pays with his life. Their affair produced a daughter, Louise Marie, who was immediately whisked off to a convent and never heard from again. “The play is a mix of politics and really good royal dish. ‘French Queen Has Black Dwarf’s Baby’ would be a tabloid cover for the ages…”—San Francisco Weekly. Ms. Nottage’s most recent work, Ruined, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her 2003 play Intimate Apparel received awards for Best Play by the New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle. Director Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor of Acting/ Directing at Smith College. Last winter at Smith she directed her translation and adaptation of Cuentos de Eva Luna before sold-out audiences.
For ticket information:
Tel.: 413.585.ARTS (2787)
Email: boxoffice@smith.edu
Length:2:57
Smith College - Performing Arts
Las Meninas
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Ellen Kaplan
Thursday-Saturday, December 3-5
Wednesday-Saturday,December 9-12
8:00 p.m., Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre
A Yoruba proverb states: “The white man who made the pencil also made the eraser.” From a forgotten history, playwright Lynn Nottage creates a hilarious and heart-wre...nching play about a romance between Louis XIV’s Queen, Marie-Therese and Nabo Sensugali, an African dwarf sent as a gift for her royal amusement. These two lonely people find comfort in an illicit love, for which Nabo pays with his life. Their affair produced a daughter, Louise Marie, who was immediately whisked off to a convent and never heard from again. “The play is a mix of politics and really good royal dish. ‘French Queen Has Black Dwarf’s Baby’ would be a tabloid cover for the ages…”—San Francisco Weekly. Ms. Nottage’s most recent work, Ruined, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her 2003 play Intimate Apparel received awards for Best Play by the New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle. Director Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor of Acting/ Directing at Smith College. Last winter at Smith she directed her translation and adaptation of Cuentos de Eva Luna before sold-out audiences.
There will be an opening night reception with the director, cast and crew following the Dec. 3 performance.
Tickets: $8 general, $5 students/seniors Dec. 9 is Dollar Night for all students.
For ticket information:
Tel.: 413.585.ARTS (2787)
Email: boxoffice@smith.edu
Time:8:00PM Wednesday, December 9th
Location:Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre
Emily Kulik This Weekend Fall Faculty Dance Concert!
Smith College - Performing Arts Featured performer for the Rachmaninoff celebration, Vladimir Tropp, was also generous enough to share is teaching with Smith College music students.
Vladimir Tropp, distinguished guest pianist for the Rachmaninoff celebration, is well known to the Smith audience thanks to two earlier visits to the college in 1988 and 1993. He was generous enough to also share his teaching with Smith Students.
Length:4:42
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American Medea written and directed by Holly Derr. Using the structure of Greek tragedy and the real life stories of Andrea Yates, Susan Smith, Darlie Routier, and Deborah Green, American Medea chronicles the social dislocation that results from poverty, divorce, and single motherhood.
Thursday, November 12
7:30 p.m.
Earle Recital Hall
Free.
Time:7:30PM Thursday, November 12th
Location:Earle Recital Hall
Smith College - Performing Arts Talk/Concert/Discussion--The slow mvt. of Schubert's great C Major Cello Quintet has long been a favorite of chamber music lovers. Professor Pitchon will speak about the work, the mvt. will then be performed, followed by a discussion with the audience. Joel Pitchon and Joana Genova, violins; Ariel Rudiakov, viola; Volcy Pelletier and Ronald Feldman, cellos.
Time:4:00PM Sunday, November 8th
Location:Earle Recital Hall
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Smith College Theatre Department presents MRS. CALIFORNIA, a comedy by Doris Baizley - directed by Sam Rush. This production runs October 22 - 31, 2009 in Theatre 14 at the Mendenhall Center for Peforming Arts. Northampton, MA
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Trefoil, a medieval trio of voices, harps and lute, with Drew Minter, countertenor, in a Spanish program, In the Chamber of the Harpers.
This event is part of the series, Marking a Century of Music.
Time:4:00PM Sunday, October 25th
Location:Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College
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Montage: Family Weekend Student Ensembles Concert
For Family Weekend the popular annual concert Montage brings together the many student choral and orchestral ensembles for a lively and joyful evening of music that offers something for everyone. Performing are: Smith College Orchestra, Glee Club, Handbell Choir, Chorus,... Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and the Wailing Banshees, Smiffenpoofs, Smithereens, Noteables, Vibes, Groove, and Crapapella. Performance is Saturday, October 24, at 8 p.m. in John M. Greene Hall on Elm St.
Tickets: $5 general public, $1 Smith students. Tickets will be sold at the door and in the Campus Center (watch for dates).
For more performing arts events at Smith, please visit our Web Site: www.smith.edu/smitharts
Time:8:00PM Saturday, October 24th
Location:John M. Greene Hall, Smith College
Smith College - Performing Arts Featuring works by Faure, Haydn, Alice Parker, Smith '47 and Professor Emeritus Werner Josten (1885-1963). Free.
Time:8:00PM Friday, October 23rd
Location:Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College
Smith College - Performing Arts
The Smith College Theatre 2009-2010 season opens over Family Weekend with Mrs. California, a crowd-pleasing comedy that pokes fun at “homemakers’ contests” popular in the 1950s. The scene is 1955, at a Los Angeles hotel where the four finalists for the hotly contested Mrs. California pageant vie for the state title of ...‘ideal woman’ and for prizes that include a New Freedom All Gas Kitchen. Dot, Mrs. Los Angeles, and the other contestants must demonstrate their prowess at ironing a man’s shirt, sewing an apron from an original pattern, setting a table, preparing a meal, and delivering a monologue entitled “My Proudest Moment.” The show runs October 22-24 and October 28-31 at 8 pm each evening. Tickets are $8 general public, $5 students/seniors with a Student Dollar Night on October 28. A reception with director, cast and crew will follow the opening night performance.
Director Sam Rush is a professional actor, director and producer who in 1991 co-founded the critically-acclaimed New Century Theatre (NCT), a professional summer theatre and Smith summer program. He has worked as production coordinator for Smith College since 1997 and continues to serve as NCT’s producing director, producing a four-play summer season each year. Recent NCT directing credits include Arcadia, Spinning Into Butter, Mornings at Seven, and The Heidi Chronicles.
“…deftly strikes the first blow for feminism as comedy…” Los Angeles Times
Time:8:00PM Thursday, October 22nd
Location:Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center, Smith College
