Tickets are selling quickly for the biennial Festival of New American Plays at Stephen F. Austin State University.

The popular staged-reading event, slated for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, April 24 through 28, and at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the Downstage Theatre, almost always sells out for each performance, according to Jack Heifner, director of the festival and SFA’s playwright-in-residence.

The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night special screening of the documentary “Jane” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 27, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts will recognize four students during the presentation of the annual Dean’s Awards at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

This concert by the Contemporary Ensemble at Stephen F. Austin State University, originally scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus, has been canceled.

For more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407.

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The Contemporary Ensemble at Stephen F. Austin State University will present a program of modern jazz when the group performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Stephen F. Austin State University’s Army ROTC marksmanship team had the opportunity to hone their skills during its recent participation in the second annual Battle of the Piney Woods Shootout at the Meadow Ridge Archery and Gun Range in Nacogdoches.
 

Politics and child development and family living may not seem like your typical match, but for Sydni Mitchell, the two go hand in hand.
 
As communications director and policy analyst for Texas State Sen. Robert Nichols, Mitchell, a two-time Stephen F. Austin State University graduate, utilizes her unique background and perspective in her daily interactions and to affect policy.
 

The SFA Friends of Music and School of Music will honor Dr. Wesley J. Broadnax at Extravaganza 31, Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music’s annual gala banquet. The event is planned for 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, in the Grand Ballroom of SFA’s Baker Pattillo Student Center.

Broadnax, who is assistant professor and director of bands at Drexel University, will be recognized as the 2018 Outstanding Music Alumnus.

The Orchestra of the Pines at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform a program featuring great string repertoire at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Dr. Gene H. Moon, director of orchestras at SFA, said the concert will include “one very staple work in the string orchestra repertoire and another that is rather quite obscure.”

The Stephen F. Austin State University Department of Biology will host the 29th annual J.H. Burr Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Friday, April 27, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center Twilight Ballroom.
 
SFA alumna Laura Livingston will present “The World is your Ostreoidea: The Diversity of Opportunities in Health Professions.”
 

The Symphonic Band and University Band at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform works by Henry Fillmore, Karl King, W. Francis McBeth and other great composers when the student ensembles perform at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.