Music Theater at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will open its presentation of the light-hearted musical The Merry Widow on Thursday, December 3, 2009. Performances will run December 3–5 at 8:00 p.m. and on Sunday, December 6, at 2:00 p.m. on the Waller Hall Mainstage, IUP Performing Arts Center.

The Department of Music will present the IUP Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble as they share the stage this Sunday, November 15, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. They will perform their annual Fall concert in Fisher Auditorium of the IUP Performing Arts Center.

The HoodleBug Brass will present a Sound Choices series concert on Tuesday, November 17, 2009. The program will begin at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall, located on the second floor of Sutton Hall. The program is being presented by the Department of Music and College of Fine Arts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Theater-by-the-Grove, produced by the Department of Theater and Dance at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, will present a collection of four new short plays titled New Works/New Voices. The show runs November 5–7 and 11–14, 2009, at 8:00 p.m and November 8 at 2:00 p.m on the Waller Hall Mainstage of the IUP Performing Arts Center.

As a reminder, tickets are now available for IUP Plays Pittsburgh, to be held Monday, November 2, 2009, at Heinz Hall. Among the groups featured are the Wind Ensemble, Opera Theater, Trombone Choir, Keystone Winds, and Marching Band.

The IUP Bands will kick off the Sound Choices series, presented by The Lively Arts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and produced by the Department of Music, with the Annual Homecoming Concert. The performance will be presented on Sunday, October 11, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium, IUP Performing Arts Center.

The Lively Arts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will present the Jones-Maruri Duo as part of the Performance Plus series in Gorell Recital Hall, John Sutton Hall, on Thursday, October 8, 2009, at 8:00 p.m.