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  • Thursday, February 20, 2014

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    CONTACT: Missy McTamney
    mmctam@umd.edu
    301.405.8102

  • Monday, February 3, 2014

    College Park, MD— Five-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer Brian MacDevitt and internationally acclaimed choreographers Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig direct Spring Awakening, the multi-layered rock musical that explores the coming-of-age of a group of teenagers living in a 19th century German village, February 28- March 8 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

  • Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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    CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
    ssnyder3@umd.edu
    301.405.8151

    College Park, MD—Known for its rich and unexpected musical collaborations, the Kronos Quartet will join in concert with famed Malian vocalist Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté and instrumentalists Fodé Lassana Diabaté and Mamadou Kouyaté, in Trio Da Kali's first visit to the United States, on February 22 at 8pm at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Dekelboum Concert Hall.

  • Tuesday, January 28, 2014

    Constitutional case law is the unlikely, yet dramatic and dynamic source of inspiration for a newly written opera that is already generating excitement and national interest.

    The University of Maryland School of Music’s Maryland Opera Studio (MOS) will present a developmental reading of composer Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg, inspired by the opinions of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.  The reading will be held on Friday, February 14 at 7:30PM in the Clarice Smith Center’s Gildenhorn Recital Hall.

  • Friday, January 3, 2014

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    CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
    ssnyder3@umd.edu
    301.405.8151

    College Park, MD— Known for his ability to weave movement and storytelling into potent dance theatre performances, David Roussève/REALITY presents the world premiere of Stardust at the Kay Theatre at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, January 31 and February 1 at 8pm. The artists will participate in a Talk Back following the Friday, January 31 performance.

  • Monday, November 18, 2013

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    CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
    ssnyder3@umd.edu
    301.405.8151

    College Park, MD – Nolan Williams, Jr. presents his new holiday musical Christmas Gift! at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on December 13 and 14. With music, lyrics and book by American songwriter Williams, Jr., Christmas Gift! centers around 13-year-old Zawadi Wise and her family and explores the themes of love and selfless giving through narrative, poetry, song and dance. The musical also delves into the rich history of Christmas Gift, a forgotten holiday gift exchange tradition in the African American community.

  • Wednesday, October 23, 2013

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    CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
    ssnyder3@umd.edu
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    College Park, MD—The University of Maryland (UMD) School of Music’s Concert Choir will join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in three performances of Benjamin Britten’s profound and deeply affecting anti-war masterpiece, The War Requiem on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 8 pm and Friday, November 15, 2013 at 8 pm in the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 8 pm at the Music Center at Strathmore.

    The performances celebrate the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth on November 22, 1913.  The combined force of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plus two choirs and three soloists will deliver Britten’s powerful masterwork that lends humanity to anti-war sentiment and remembers the fallen. “We are honored to be part of a performance so meaningful and moving,” said Edward Maclary, director of Choral Activities at UMD. “It is a privilege to share the stage with the BSO for the centerpiece of their 2013-2014 season.”

  • Thursday, October 17, 2013

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    ssnyder3@umd.edu
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    College Park, MD— Matthew R. Wilson directs the comedic and contemporary Molière Impromptu, translated and adapted by Rinne Groff, November 8-16 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Presented by the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), Molière Impromptu is based on three short plays by Molière and takes a wickedly funny look at the magic of theatre.

  • Monday, October 14, 2013

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    College Park, MD— The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA) will join the University of Maryland’s (UMD) School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) for a three-week collaboration beginning October 28th that focuses on sharing each culture’s unique approach to theatrical production and theatre technology.  Two junior professors and one graduate student from NACTA will spend three weeks in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on the UMD campus working side-by-side with TDPS faculty, students and production staff. The visit is part of a five-year NACTA-TDPS partnership that began in 2012 with the bi-lingual co-production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed in both College Park, MD and Beijing, China.

  • Wednesday, October 9, 2013

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    College Park, MD— Rhythm and blues and gospel legend Mavis Staples makes her debut at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center with a performance in the Kay Theatre on November 8 at 8 pm. From her start with the Staple Singers to her dynamic solo career, Staples has continued to raise social consciousness through music for six decades. Yvonne Staples, Mavis Staples’ sister and original member of the Staple Sisters, will provide backing vocals.

    This performance is part of the Clarice Smith Center’s involvement in The National Civil War Project. The Center is examining the Civil War through the lens of civil and human rights, with a special focus on the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Thursday, October 3, 2013

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    College Park, MD— Choreographer David Dorfman explores the vulnerability, virtuosity and mortality of daily life in Come, and Back Again at the Kay Theatre at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center November 1 and 2 at 8 pm.  Inspired by the stimulating poetry and unapologetic, raw ferocity of the underground 90’s Atlanta band “Smoke,” five dancers and a band of musicians create a kinetic anthem of reckless personal abandon. Dorfman plays the role of both dancer and saxophonist in this striking work that contemplates how time and memory influence and define our changeable human existence.

    Join the artists for a Talk Back following the Friday, November 1 performance.

  • Thursday, September 26, 2013

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    ssnyder3@umd.edu
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    College Park, MD— The Kronos Quartet celebrates its 40th anniversary with a performance at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Kay Theatre on October 24 at 8 pm.  To pay tribute to Kronos Quartet’s 40 years of innovative music-making, the Center has co-commissioned legendary American composer Philip Glass to write a new work, String Quartet No. 6, which will make its East Coast premiere as the centerpiece of Kronos’ performance. This performance will be the debut of Sunny Yang, Kronos Quartet’s new cellist, at the Center.

  • Wednesday, September 18, 2013

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    College Park, MD – The  University of Maryland School of Music brings musician-poet, Sidney Clopton Lanier to life in a presentation that honors his creative legacy and artistic contribution to his adopted home, Baltimore, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era.  Entitled Orpheus’ Son - The Life of Sidney Lanier and His Music of Language, the program tells Lanier’s poignant life story, interwoven with passages of period flute music, some composed by Lanier, and narrative readings of Lanier’s poetic musical expression.

  • Wednesday, September 18, 2013

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    College Park, MD— Choreographer Erin Crawley-Woods creates a tapestry of movement and sound in her site-specific work, Visible Seams, October 9-16 at 6:30 pm. Presented by the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Visible Seams is Crawley-Woods’ MFA Dance Thesis Concert and will take place throughout the corridors, courtyards and staircases of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at UMD. The piece features the talent of both undergraduate and graduate dancers.

  • Friday, September 13, 2013

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    College Park, MD  The University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) announced it will partner with the theatre departments of the Big Ten Conference schools to create a new playwriting and performance initiative. The group, known as the Big Ten Theatre Chairs plans to commission, produce and publicize as many as five new plays in an effort to influence the national dialogue about women playwrights and the sorts of scripts needed by university theatre programs for performing arts education.

  • Monday, August 26, 2013

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  • Thursday, August 22, 2013

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    301.405.8151

    College Park, MD— Anda Union brings the old and forgotten music of Mongol to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on September 20 at 8pm with The Wind Horse. The group, who describes themselves as music gatherers, digs deep into Mongol traditions and holds on to the essence of Mongol music while creating a haunting, fresh sound.

  • Thursday, August 8, 2013

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  • Wednesday, August 7, 2013

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    CONTACT: Erica Bondarev
    bondarev@umd.edu
    301.405.0199

    COLLEGE PARK, MD – The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland has named Martin Wollesen as executive director.  Wollesen, a longtime arts administrator and proven creative thinker, has an all-inclusive approach to the arts and a demonstrated commitment to higher education. 

    In his new role, Wollesen will provide innovative and strategic leadership for the Center’s programmatic, educational and community activities, with collaboration as a core operating tenet.

  • Thursday, August 1, 2013

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    CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
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    301.405.8151

    College Park, MD — It has been 150 years since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and 50 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, yet still, some challenging questions remain. Are we really free and equal? How far have we come? How much further is there to go?

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