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  • In this Tony-winning musical, Sweeney Todd returns to London after 15 years in prison on a trumped up charge. His wife is gone and his daughter has been adopted by the very Judge who imprisoned him. As Sweeney seeks justice, he partners with Nellie Lovett,…

    corrupted upper-class society itself. In that regard, it is as much a story about social inequality as it is about a murderous barber.” Sweeney Todd runs March 14-16 at 7:30 p.m. and March 17 at 2 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite. $10 – General admission $5 – 60+, military, alumni and students free – 18 and younger Read Previous Upcoming Student Series Production, Blood Wedding Read Next Dance 2019

  • We’re in a brave new world of all-online scholarship application and adjudication process. Students entering PLU in fall 2021 as a first-year or transfer student with an interest in the Dance minor can still apply for an Artistic Achievement Award in Dance. Read more in…

    website that many arts programs and schools use for admissions and competitions. You must also officially apply to PLU (if you haven’t already) but you do not need to have received your acceptance letter in order to apply for Artistic Achievement Awards. What’s the application deadline? Submit all your materials no later than 5pm Pacific on Monday, February 8, 2021. What are the questions that I need to answer on the application? We ask basic questions about you and how to contact you. We also ask for

  • Like it did for so many, the theatre called to Associate Professor Amanda Sweger when she was in those awkward teen years. “For the first time, I felt accepted,” she said. Yet she quickly realized she didn’t like acting or auditioning. So, she spent a…

    Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 28, 2023 Image: Image: Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger in Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. (PLU Photo/Sy Bean) February 28, 2023 By Lisa Patterson ‘98PLU Marketing and Communications Guest WriterLike it did for so many, the theatre called to Associate Professor Amanda Sweger when she was in those awkward teen years. “For the first time, I felt accepted,” she said. Yet she

  • Travel to Alcina’s island for a story of magic, enchantment and song. This January, surround yourself with magnificent music when Pacific Lutheran University Opera performs Handel’s Alcina on the Karen Hille Phillips Mainstage. There are four opportunities to view the production:  January 22, 23, and…

    a great example of student/faculty research! We are also blessed with an opera orchestra of PLU faculty members,” Brown says. “It’s going to be a great show!” Arrive 30 minutes early to enjoy concessions, including snacks, beer and wine; a portion of concession proceeds benefit the arts at PLU. Purchase tickets through the PLU Campus Box Office at the Concierge desk in the Anderson University Center and on the phone at 253-535-7411.  Tickets are $15 General Admission, $10 Senior Citizens (55

  • On Friday, May 11th, the public is invited to a collaborative concert featuring the Stadium High School Jazz Band, the Pacific Lutheran University Jazz Ensemble and special guest and world renowned saxophonist, Vincent Herring. Thanks to a generous endowment established by PLU alumnus Dr. Richard…

    Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite. $10 – General admission; $5 – 60+, military, PLU alumni and students; free – high school students and younger. Read Previous A Slice of Paradise Read Next PLU hosts Tamana Girls’ High School Band in friendship concert LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts

  • Caring for God’s gift of biodiversity Conservation of the Earth, its animals, plants and resources isn’t only the right thing to do, but it’s how God intends for men and women to tend to His creation. That will be the gist of a lecture –…

    attended Union Theological Seminary in New York for his masters. He received his bachelors of arts degree from Earlham Collage in Indiana. He will publish the article “Thinking Globally and Thinking Locally: Ecology, Subsidiary and Multiscalar Environmentalism” in the Journal for the Study of Religion in 2008. He has spoken extensively on environmentalism and spirituality, including a lecture in May titled “Can Sacramentalism Save Biodiversity?” that was presented at the American Academy of Religion

  • From Microsoft to Martin Luther, and back again In 1994, Mike Halvorson was the first one to write a book about something nobody else cared about. The book? How to use a little-known software program called Microsoft Office. We can guess how that turned out.…

    they only had two buildings. He was employee #850. “Why would a liberal arts degree matter?” he asked, musing on the days after his graduation. “It got me a job!” The job was at Microsoft Press, the software giant’s in-house book publishing division. He worked there until 1993 and then set off on his own. By 2000, he had authored more than 30 books on how to master various software programs, from Microsoft Office to Visual Basic. He’s sold more than a million copies. And then, as Halvorson

  • A $15M bequest propels campaign past $100M, with a year to go By Greg Brewis Upon final accounting, the $10 million bequest from Karen Hille Phillips ’55 that was announced in October now amounts to more than $15 million, helping push the university’s current fundraising…

    Phillips, who passed away last fall at age 78. “Karen cared deeply about what she always called ‘her university,’” Anderson said. “Again and again her generosity has given PLU the resources to move aggressively to enhance our academic programs and facilities. Our memory of her will live on forever.” The Phillips bequest completes funding of the $20 million renovation of Eastvold Hall, transforming it into the 47,500 square-foot Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts by 2013. That work is

  • Chris Fry ’91, of NW Wood, cuts a plank on his mill in Tacoma. Fry milled the wood from trees cut this summer into panels that now adorn the new Studio Theater. (Photo by John Froschauer) Transforming logs into artwork By: Barbara Clements To the…

    then in late summer, installed in the Studio Theater at the future Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The golden honey-colored panels can be seen as a visitor enters the theater. Walking through the hundreds cuts of wood in his warehouse, Fry sees each grain – which may be a rather dull gray or beige now, as how it will become once its sanded and stained. Originally starting the mill for hobbyists, Fry moved into the commercial sector in about 2003. The request to cut the logs for

  • Four time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Steinar Bryn shares his experiences with the PLU community. (Photo by John Froschauer) Peacemaker visits PLU Campus By Katie Scaff ’13 Dialogue involves movement, visibility, relationships, and understanding, according to Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Steinar Bryn. Bryn was on…

    Prize Nomination is the fourth nomination he’s received. “The work we do does not get much media attention,” Bryn said. “To get nominated is then, ‘Yes, somebody is noticing.’” Bryn’s relationship with PLU began in 2004 when he co-taught with Amanda Feller, associate professor of communication, and Edward Inch, former dean of the School of Arts and Communication. Since that time, Bryn and Feller have taught together at PLU and at the Nansenskolen in Lillehammer, Norway. “One motivation for me to