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New Play Festival

The biennial New Play Festival features three full-length plays written, directed, performed, and designed by Clark undergraduates.

Playfest Show 1: The Road Trip

The Road Trip follows family members Dale, Carol, Logan, and Evelyn down the highway towards their grandparent’s house. A rather boring drive turns into a tense time bomb as time no longer follows a linear path. Relationships are tested, and their love for one another turns into hatred. The world begins to crumble at the seams.

Gallery Talk – Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement

Join the Higgins School of Humanities on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 10am for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of a video exhibition titled, "Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement," in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons on the Clark University campus.

Gallery Talk – Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement

Still from "Jump" (2016), courtesy of Stephen DiRado Join us for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement, a video exhibition curated by Matt Malsky, Director of the Higgins School of Humanities. Special guests will include exhibition contributors and Clark University faculty members  Philip Bergmann, Stephen DiRado, […]

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Playfest Show 1: The Road Trip

The Road Trip follows family members Dale, Carol, Logan, and Evelyn down the highway towards their grandparent’s house. A rather boring drive turns into a tense time bomb as time no longer follows a linear path. Relationships are tested, and their love for one another turns into hatred. The world begins to crumble at the seams.

Playfest Show 1: The Road Trip

The Road Trip follows family members Dale, Carol, Logan, and Evelyn down the highway towards their grandparent’s house. A rather boring drive turns into a tense time bomb as time no longer follows a linear path. Relationships are tested, and their love for one another turns into hatred. The world begins to crumble at the seams.

Concert: Modern Mélodies

Baritone Cailin Marcel Manson and pianist Yelena Beriyeva are joined by other Clark performance faculty and a chamber ensemble in an exploration of music and surrealist poetry through the music of Hans Kraša and Francis Poulenc, including the secular solo cantata Le bal masqué.

Playfest Show 2: Palatine

A family holiday dinner set on a palatial space station. There are secrets, drama, and of course: murder.

Clark University Geller Jazz Series 2024

Join us for a musical journey with the legendary Randy Brecker, a virtuoso trumpeter and flugelhornist and a founding member of the groundbreaking ensemble Blood, Sweat and Tears.

Playfest Show 3: Dreamballs

The guest of a cooking show demonstrates how to create a recipe that came to him in a dream by trying to recreate the dream from memory. Factors in his unpleasant life make themselves readily apparent as the dream progresses.

Concert: Reformation

The Clark University Symphony Orchestra is joined by musicians of the New England Repertory Orchestra and Distinguished Artist-In-Residence in Piano Yelena Beriyeva to perform the virtuosic piano concerto Grass by Black composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, paired with the final symphony -- Symphony No. 5 -- of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, written in 1830, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the […]