Western Playhouse, the summer theatre company at Missouri Western State University, will present musicals old and new in its third season. Meredith Willson’s perennial favorite, “The Music Man,” will be produced June 20-28, and “Mother Divine,” an official selection of the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s 2013 Next Link Project, will be produced July 11-19. [...]
“Twin Cups,” a ceramics exhibition featuring 64 artists from 30 states, will be on display in the Potter Hall Gallery at Missouri Western State University Feb. 28 through March 28. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 in the gallery. The exhibition and the reception are free and [...]
A parliamentary debate team from Missouri Western State University finished second in the novice division of the 2014 Missouri Association of Forensics Activities State Championship Tournament at the University of Central Missouri Feb. 15. Freshmen Graham Deckard of Kansas City, Mo., and Eli Dodge of Smithville, Mo., were undefeated until they fell to Truman State [...]
A whirlwind weekend of filmmaking is in store for participants in Missouri Western State University’s second annual Above the Line 48-Hour Film Challenge. Missouri Western students, area high school students and community members are invited to create short films Feb. 28 through March 2, with a red-carpet premiere of all completed films Friday, March 7 [...]
The Department of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies and Social Work in conjunction with the Peace and Conflict Studies program at Missouri Western State University present “The Department of Justice Peacemakers” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum Student Union 218-219. The presentation by Pascual Marquez and Darryck Dean of the [...]
The Department of Theatre and Cinema and the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University present Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” Feb. 13-16. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday in the Potter Hall Theater at Missouri Western. Tickets are $12 for adults, [...]
A law professor from India will speak on “Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems in India” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum Student Union rooms 218-219. The lecture is the third of the 2013-2014 Peace and Conflict Studies Speaker Series, sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies minor and the Missouri [...]
Missouri Western State University will host students from about a dozen local elementary schools participating in Jump Rope for Heart from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10 in the M.O. Looney arena. Students will jump rope to raise funds for the American Heart Association, which funds cardiovascular disease research and public and professional education [...]
Because of the snow, several schools are unable to participate in the 8th annual Jazz Festival. Performances will be at 9 a.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. The MWSU Jazz Ensembles will perform at 4:45 p.m. for the schools in attendance. Watch www.missouriwestern.edu for updates.
Financial aid professionals from Missouri Western State University will offer free assistance to families filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, during a “FAFSA Frenzy” event from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9 inside Spratt Hall. “In 2011-2012, Missouri postsecondary students received $3.5 billion in financial aid from the federal [...]
