Children’s theater
Friday, April 3, 2009
Children’s theater
“The Princess and the Pea,” featuring the Missoula Children’s Theatre and local young people from grades kindergarten to 12 will be performed at 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call the Emporia Arts Council, 343-6473.
Heights benefit
“A Night on the Town,” a dinner and concert featuring pianist Robyn Meahl, presented by the Northern Heights High School Booster Club, will be held April 18 at the school. Serving begins at 5:30 p.m.; concert doors open at 7:15 p.m. Dinner will be chicken-fried steak with gravy, baked potato, green beans, roll, dessert and beverage. The cost for the dinner and concert is $8 each person and $6 each child (one-half portion); the cost for the concert only is $2 for adults and $1 for students. Reservations for dinner must be received by April 13. Admission will be taken at the door if attending the concert only. Reservations, with checks made to NHHS Booster Club, may be sent to 420 E. 1st, Admire, KS 66830 or e-mailed to jbmeahl@satelephone.com.
Student exhibits
The annual juried ESU Art Student Exhibition is on display through April 30 in the Norman R. Eppink Gallery Gilson Memorial Gallery, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday in the lobby of Bruder Theatre. The exhibition is judged by an outside expert nominated by the faculty and brought to campus to review and select the best student work of the academic year, stated the news release.
“Salon des Refuses’” will be an exhibition of ESU student art works on display through April 30 at the Emporia Arts Center, 6128 Mechanic St. The opening reception will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at the center.
Music performances
The ESU Department of Music presents Sandra Cox, flutist, at 3 p.m. Sunday in Heath Recital Hall of Beach Music Hall. The Percussion Ensemble Concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Albert Taylor Hall. Guest artist Gustavo Martin, cellist and composer, will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 11 in Heath Recital Hall, along with Virginia Covarrubias, pianist. The concert will feature the music of contemporary Mexican composers. Martin is professor of cello at the National School of Music in Mexico City. For more information, call 341-5431 or e-mail: muscstud@emporia.edu.
ESU show
“She Stoops to Conquer,” under the direction of Jim Ryan will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in the Karl C. Bruder Theatre in King Hall April 29 through May 2. For tickets, call 341-6378 or toll free, (877) 341-6378. The play is described as a “comedy of manners as well as a satire of upper class pretensions.”
Emporians exhibit
Two Bethany College art students from Emporia, Hugo Escabar, senior, drawing, painting and sculpture, and Jorge Escobar, junior, painting, will have their works on display as part of the Bethany College Messiah Festival Juried Student Art Exhibition at Lindsborg. Works of art by 26 student artists, selected for inclusion from 181 works entered,s will be exhibited. The exhibition is being held through April 14, with winners to be announced Sunday (April 5) at a reception at the gallery in Mingenback Art Center on campus. The exhibition features ceramics, crafts, design, drawings, paintings, photography, printmaking and sculpture created by the art students who are taking classes. The show is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call (785) 227-3311, ext. 8274.
The juried exhibition is part of the Messiah Festival of the Arts, an eight-day celebration of sacred music, theatre and art at Bethany College. The festival features the Bethany Oratorio Society’s 128th anniversary performances of Handel’s “Messiah,” to be performed at 3 p.m. Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday at Presser Hall on campus. At 7:30 p.m. Good Friday, Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” will be performed. For more information about the Messiah Festival or tickets, call (785) 227-3380, ext. 8132 or see www.bethanylb.edu/messiah.
Club scene
• “The Usual Suspects” perform at 8 p.m. today and April 17 at The Noose. There is no cover charge and seating is limited. The Noose is now nonsmoking with a designated, covered smoking area for behind the club.
• “the co-dependents” will perform at 9 p.m. April 18 at Capt’n Drinkwater’s in Strong City and at 8 p.m. May 2 at the Heidi Inn in Lebo.