East Stroudsburg University

ESU's Department of Theatre will present She Kills Monsters December 8-11.

East Stroudsburg University's art + design department will feature art works and portfolios of selected students in an online exhibition: Senior Portfolio in Art Exhibition. The exhibition kicked off with a private online reception on April 29.

Five members of ESU's Warrior Bands program, along with director Brian Hodge, attended the 73rd Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival held February 28-March 1 at California University of Pennsylvania.

Students from ESU's theatre department shared their talents with the community during the East Stroudsburg borough tree lighting December 6 at the Dansbury Depot.

The East Stroudsburg University community welcomed students, faculty and staff to kick off the holiday season by signing ESU's Giant Holiday Card, a tradition now in its eighth year.

East Stroudsburg University's Concert Band and University Choir presented a joint Winter Concert filled with seasonal favorites on Sunday, December 8 at 3:30 p.m. in Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall of the university's Fine & Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.

USBands, one of the two major national band circuits in the country, has selected East Stroudsburg University's Warrior Band to be the Exhibition Performers for the USBands Class A National Championship to be held Saturday, November 2 at J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, Pa.

East Stroudsburg University's Madelon Powers Gallery will feature art works and portfolios of advanced students in the university art+design department in a Senior Seminar and Portfolio in Art Student Exhibition April 29 -May 8. The exhibition will include works produced by students completing independent study projects and works from selected art+design classes.

Stage II, East Stroudsburg University's student theater organization, will present Stay, a play by Lucy Thurber.

Prizes were awarded to the top artists in the East Stroudsburg University Student Art Association Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition.

Lynn Nottage's drama, Sweat, which will be presented February 26-28 and March 1-3 at East Stroudsburg University, is one of the most compelling, gripping, and truthful portrayals of life in America at the beginning of the 21st century according to director Susan P. O'Hearn, professor of theatre.

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Musical pieces featuring variations on song-like forms will be highlighted in Songs for an Olden Season, the winter concert of East Stroudsburg University's Concert Band, Sunday, December 9 at 3 p.m. in Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall of the university's Fine & Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg. The performance is open to the public at no cost.

Chelsea Bacon, a junior art + design major is the illustrator of a new children's book "The Colorful World of Emily: The First Day of School." Bacon will be at the author's book launch on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 1- 3 p.m. at Pocono Arts Council, 18 North Seventh St.

Stage II, East Stroudsburg University's student theater organization, selected Scott Z. Burn's contemporary drama, The Library, for their October 4-7 production because the group wanted to produce a play that would spark discussion.

Four students from East Stroudsburg University's theatre department earned honors at the Region II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF).

Thanks to a grant from the East Stroudsburg University Foundation, more than 30 members of the cast and production staff of ESU's upcoming production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible were able to visit historic Salem, Massachusetts to research the sites and characters in the drama.

The East Stroudsburg University's Theatre Department will present Arthur Miller's The Crucible, October 18 and 20-22. The classic drama examines how bigoted and deceitful accusations of witchcraft in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts created mass hysteria that resulted in the murders of innocent people.