Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

Shrek the Musical Comes to PSU

Shrek is the socially awkward ogre that most people have come to know and love from the popular film franchise of the same name. Just like an onion, Shrek has many layers; one of these being his ability to sing. Shrek the Musical is based on the 2001 DreamWorks film […]

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Costumes with Daneé Grillo

Daneé Grillo is the Costume Shop Manager and Resident Costume Designer at Plymouth State University. Originally from Beacon Falls CT, she received her BA from Keene State College with a concentration in costuming and scenic design. Grillo worked as a scenic designer at Peacock Players in Nashua, NH before settling […]

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Banned Books Week

Book banning has been practiced for many years across the globe. In the United States, state and local governments have banned such well-known titles as The Catcher in the Rye, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, Howl, and To Kill a Mockingbird. More often than not, this is due […]

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Puppy Love: Sylvia Comes to the Silver Center

Sylvia, a comedic play about a middle-aged man and his dog, plays this weekend in PSU’s Studio Theatre. The show is hilarious (Sylvia, a stray dog, is played by the human being Jackie Goodrich), but also touching. From man’s best friend, the characters and the audience learn quite a bit […]

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Connecting Objects and Art

Where can someone find a fog machine, a tree trunk, a boulder, a doctoral dissertation, and an opera ticket, all in the same place? This isn’t some weird outdoor office space. It’s the 2015 Faculty Art Exhibit: Objects that Inspire, at the Karl Drerup Art Gallery. Since its opening in […]

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Meet the Dance Team

The dancers clustered in one corner of the studio, ready for the last across-the-floor part of auditions. After pirouettes, battements, and grand jetes, the dance captains informed those auditioning of their last exercise: show off what you do best. One at a time, across the floor they went. Some showed […]