Performing Arts Series/Calendar of Events

Dana School of Music Schedule 2009 - 2010
August   September   October   November   December

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McDonough Museum Calendar of Events 2009 - 2010

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Towell's most recent body of work explores the issues of land and landlessness in this mid-career retrospective.

Larry Towell accompanied by harmonica virtuoso Mike Stevens. Collected Works is a live performance celebrating the art of story telling.

An exhibition of work by students graduating in the fall semester from the Department of Art at YSU.

The annual fund raising gala at the McDonough Museum for both the Museum and SMARTS

Selected works in various media by Studio Art Faculty in the Department of Art at Youngstown State University.

An exhibition of work by students graduating in the spring semester from the Department of Art at YSU

2009 - 2010 University Theater Season

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HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (Second Stage BLACKBOX Production)
        by Paula Vogel (A Comedic Drama)
        Spotlight Arena Theater
        September 10, 11 & 12 • 7:30 p.m.
        September 13 • 3:00 p.m.

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. Co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Co-winner of the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play. The NY Times describes this as " a tremendous achievement, genuine and genuinely disturbing. This is, quite simply, the sweetest and most forgiving play ever written about child abuse." A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. (Recommended for MATURE audiences)

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Unabashedly slapstick! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Join fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant as they race to beat the clock! Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk. With his resourceful servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. But his every step is dogged by a detective who thinks he's a robber on the run. Danger, romance, and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in Mark Brown's new comic adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel.

Old world charm permeates every moment of this bittersweet, wise, and gently offbeat fable of life, love, and bread by Joseph Stein (Fiddler On The Roof) and Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Children of Eden and Wicked.) The bickering residents of a small Provencal town at last find peace and contentment in the heavenly bread of the newly arrived baker and his attractive young wife, but when she is lured away by the attentions of a handsome young gigolo, the middle-aged baker loses all zest for life and baking, throwing the community into chaos.

Any shrewd chap who finds his artist girlfriend has a video camera in the bedroom to film their sexual action might well fear he was destined to end up as her artistic fodder. But in THE SHAPE OF THINGS, Neil LaBute's absolutely chilling report from the sex war's frontline, where stratagems for sexual humiliations are planned, Adam, the shy chap concerned, takes the video camera-so to speak-lying down. LaBute, the remarkable American movie director and playwright whose film In the Company of Men showed a sexually unappealing woman exploited by two vengeful pretend lovers, now returns to this theme. This time it's a man who's the victim of female guile... LaBute meticulously plans that the shocking, climactic revelations should cast dark light upon his apparently average people. ~ Nicholas de Jongh, The Standard (Recommended for MATURE audiences)

Shakespeare at his 'gender-bending' best, this play tells the tale of Rosalind, daughter of a banished Duke, who is forced to flee the court and enter the Forest of Arden when her uncle threatens to have her killed. Accompanied by her cousin Celia, Rosalind disguises herself as a man for safety's sake. The disguise comes in handy when Rosalind tests the devotion of her noble admirer Orlando, another exile, and teaches him lessons of the heart. Some of the Bard's most poetic language flows as a merry and melancholy series of misunderstandings, gender confusions, and mistaken identities unfolds amidst court exiles and forest natives. With Rosalind's wit leading the way, the forces of true love and justice eventually triumph.

Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to film Man of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life.

The most popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and arguably the most popular opera ever written, THE MIKADO has delighted audiences for more than a century, and spawned a number of imitations. Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, leaves home and disguises himself as a musician to escape a distasteful marriage and meets a beautiful girl, Yum-Yum, with whom he falls in love. He desperately wants to marry her, but obstacles are cast in his way by Yum-Yum's guardian, Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, who is also in love with Yum-Yum and has every intention of marrying her himself. Also causing problems is Katisha, Nanki-Poo's jilted bride, who arrives in Titipu in the company of Nanki-Poo's father, the Mikado.

Dana School of Music Schedule 2009 - 2010

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Dana Scholarship Auditions

For more information call the Dana School of Music @ 330-941-3636

August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Parking

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We encourage all F&PA patrons to use the Wick Avenue Parking Deck, M-1, across
from the Butler Institute of American Art and Maag Library. The parking deck is open
on weekdays and Saturdays for all F&PA events. Guests are encouraged to park on
the third level. There is a nominal fee.

YSU seeks to accommodate all people with disabilities. If accommodations are required
for any F&PA event, please call (330) 941-7448 or TDD (330) 941-1564. YSU
theaters, Bliss Recital Hall, the McDonough Museum of Art, the Bliss Hall Gallery
(second floor) and Kilcawley Center are handicapped accessible.

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