Art Exhibitions Continue

Legacy: Works by Distinguished Former Faculty
Re-Viewed: Recent Work by UNH Alumni

throughout month
Museum of Art
Free

LEGACY features works by former UNH Department of Art and Art History studio faculty members.

RE-VIEWED, a juried exhibition, features recent works by UNH Department of Art and Art History studio art program alumni. Exhibition jurors are artists James Aponovich and Gary Haven Smith.

A Tribute to Blue Note Records

Sunday, February 13, 3 p.m.
Johnson Theatre
Free

GUITARIST DAVID NEWSAM presents selections that were popular during the early years of the Paul Creative Arts Center. Some of the great jazz compositions of Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Art Blakey, and Grant Green will be featured. Joining David will be John Hunter, bass, Les Harris Jr., drums, Fred Haas, sax and piano, and several special guests.

Baroque Music for Trumpets and Organ

Sunday, February 6, 3 p.m.
St. John’s Church, Portsmouth, N.H.
Free

A RECITAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC for one, two, and three trumpets and organ featuring Robert Stibler, trumpet, Abbey Hallberg-Siegfried, organ, and UNH alumni trumpeters. Works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Petronio Franceschini, J. S. Bach, Giovanni Tartini, Valentin Rathgeber, and G. F. Handel will be featured.

Arts for Life Sunday Salon Series

Recollections: Teaching the Arts 1970–1987

Sunday, February 13, 1 p.m.
Museum of Art
Free

ARTIST AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS SIGMUND ABELES recounts his experiences as a studio art faculty member, which influenced his career as a professional educator and artist.

Strega Nona 

Based on the book by Tomie dePaola
Directed by Carol Jo Fisher
Spring Tour February–May
Summer Tour June–August
40th Season for the Little Red Wagon!
School bookings: www.unh.edu/theatre-dance or (603) 862-2150

THIS CHARMING MUSICAL adaptation of Tomie dePaola’s 1976 Caldecott Honor book brings Strega Nona, Big Anthony, and the magic pasta pot to life. Through song, storytelling, and puppetry, we meet Strega Nona, the kind-hearted “grandmother witch” who tells Big Anthony one thing he must not do. But Big Anthony is in big trouble. Will Strega Nona save the day?

The troupe performs this traveling show at schools, libraries, summer camps, churches, and town fairs.

Staged Readings in Rep
The Season of Lust and Betrayal

Tuesday–Saturday, February 15–19, 7 p.m., Sunday, February 20, 2 p.m.
Hennessy Theatre
For tickets, visit www.unhmub.com/ticket or call (603) 862-2290.

STAGED READINGS are an opportunity to present a wider variety of subjects and themes than can be performed in a regular season. The plays are minimally staged, actors hold scripts, and typically a stage manager directs the action. While the production elements are held to a minimum, the acting elements are not, and audiences get the full impact of the relationships between characters and the dramatic tension. The two selected plays share the theme of betrayal and its violent consequences, something which seems to remain unchanged since the time of the Romans.

Diverting Devotion

Written by UNH alumnus Mike O’Malley ’88
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, February 15, 17, 19

NEW LOVE AND AN OLD SECRET emerge in this richly drawn sentimental comedy. Three thirty-something men gather to attend a friend’s wedding, when events conspire to cast shadows over a friendship and an engagement.

Phaedra

Written by the Roman playwright, Seneca
Translated by Professor Scott Smith
Directed by Professor David Richman
Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, February 16, 18, and 20

“HELL HATH NO FURY like a woman scorned.” Seneca’s Phaedra is a relentless depiction of destructive sexual passion, telling the tragic story of a young wife and her taboo love for her handsome stepson.