IUP’s Theater-by-the-Grove and Music Theater will present the musical Ordinary Days. Directed by Rob Gretta and music directed by Oliver Lo, the recorded performances will be streamed virtually on April 22–25, 2021.
The University Museum will present an exhibition at the Artists Hand Gallery in downtown Indiana beginning April 6 with art works from the museum’s collection which will be for sale.
The University Museum at IUP presents the IUP Art and Design Faculty Triennial 2021, scheduled to open Friday, April 2. This exhibition will also feature a project by the Sculpture Support System, a collaborative effort of faculty members Sharon Massey and Sean Derry and students studying three-dimensional art.
Collaborating one final time, the IUP Dance Theater Company and the IUP Percussion Ensemble will present “An Evening of Dance and Percussion: Legacy,” under the direction of Holly Boda-Sutton and Michael Kingan, on March 27 online and in Fisher Auditorium, located in the Performing Arts Center.
IUP’s Theater-by-the-Grove will continue its 2020–21 season with four virtual presentations of Topher Payne’s 2013 play Perfect Arrangement on March 5, 7, 11, and 13, including a Sunday matinee. Tickets will be available for purchase for live-streaming only.
The University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania is proud to present an exhibition featuring paintings by IUP professor emeritus, Ned Wert. This exhibition represents an outstanding 60-plus-year career as an artist, mentor, and educator.
Using some of Poe’s poems and short stories with original composition from David Martynuik, IUP Dance Theater, under the direction and choreography of Holly Boda-Sutton, explores the still unexplained life and death of one of America’s most singular writers. The free performance will be live-streamed on Friday, November 13, and Sunday, November 15.
IUP’s Theater-by-the-Grove will kick off its 2020–21 season with two live-streaming presentations of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Richard Kemp, the production will be presented on October 22 and 24 at 7:30 p.m.
The University Museum at IUP is proud to present an exhibition featuring paintings and sculpture from its permanent collection.
The IUP Community Music School has opened for the fall 2020 semester for in-person lessons, as well as continuing to offer a quality online lesson experience. Registration for lessons is ongoing throughout the semester.
The IUP Community Music School is accepting applications for private, online lesson instruction. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through July 10. Get more information, and register online.
Due to concerns regarding the rapid spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), all remaining productions for the IUP Lively Arts Ovations Season and College of Fine Arts performances/events are canceled for this season, along with the remaining exhibitions and events for IUP’s University Museum and Kipp Gallery.
Due to the concerns regarding the rapid spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), guidance from both federal and state governments, and policy announced yesterday for IUP regarding the suspension of group activities to limit the spread of the virus, the upcoming production of Finding Neverland at IUP on Thursday, March 19, is now canceled.
The IUP Dance Theater will present It’s Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus, an original adaptation of Hocus Pocus. Co-choreographed and directed by Katie Gutmann and Holly Boda-Sutton, this wickedly funny production will be performed on March 27–29 in the Zink Hall Dance Auditorium on the IUP campus.
Hilton Garden Inn will be the presenting sponsor as the Lively Arts brings the Broadway tour of Finding Neverland to Fisher Auditorium of the IUP Performing Arts Center. The winner of Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award for Best Musical will be presented on the new date of Thursday, March 19, 2020.
IUP’s Music Theater will present the opera Don Giovanni (Don Juan), sung in English, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This fully-staged version with a sci-fi twist will take place February 27–29 and March 1 in the IUP Performing Arts Center, featuring the IUP Opera Festival Orchestra.
Join the Lively Arts and IUP Music Department for an early lunch at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 26, in the Orendorff Music Library (Cogswell Hall, Rm. 101) as Music Department faculty members and select cast members present a lecture/demonstration and mini-performance on one of Mozart’s greatest works.
The IUP Lively Arts Ovations series will present Mummenschanz for one night only on Friday, February 14, at 7:00 p.m. Their performance, you & me, will take place on the IUP campus in Fisher Auditorium in the Performing Arts Center.
The IUP Libraries and the Lively Arts present the Imani Winds from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 30, in the Commons of Stapleton Library. This free event is open to all faculty, staff, students, and members of the IUP community. Their full performance takes place that evening in Gorell Recital Hall.
The exhibit Dr. Kabala’s Cabinet of Wonders: Highlights from a Collection showcases the personal art collection of Irene Kabala, a professor in IUP’s Art and Design Department, who has amassed an eclectic array of culturally diverse artwork from around the world that spans multiple centuries, from the middle ages to today.
