Toni Smith, award-winning actress and visiting assistant professor of theatre, coaches an SFA theatre student during an in-class breathing exercise.

For the student actors auditioning for "A Midsummer Night's Dream," there were no "do-overs," no interjections from a director who is familiar with their capabilities and previous work.

Multi-platinum, Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Stephen F. Austin State University will host a live broadcast featuring multi-platinum, Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan performing her beautifully crafted songs for Yamaha Disklavier RemoteLive viewers from her studio in Vancouver, Canada, at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, in the Music Recital Hall on the SFA campus.

Evgeni Raychev, SFA adjunct cello professor, will perform a program of popular musical gems in collaboration with pianist Martha de Luna, SFA graduate student, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and the Cole Performing Arts Series will present "Musical Liaisons," a program featuring impassioned Spanish compositions, at 7:30 p.m.

Chris Combest, principal tubist for the Louisville Symphony, will present a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, as part of SFA's Cole Performing Arts Series.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University's School of Music and the Cole Performing Arts Series will present Chris Combest in a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in Cole Concert Hall as the opening concert of SFA's seventh annual Octubafest.

The Oberon Ensemble includes Colleen Matheu Johnson, flute; Kurt Johnson, violin; Rene Salazar, viola; Barrett Sills, cello; and features SFA faculty member Emily Mitchell, harp. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University's School of Music and the Cole Performing Arts Series will present the Oberon Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

SFA faculty members Christina Guenther, flute, and Geneva Fung, piano, will present a recital of works by American composers 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, in the Cole Concert Hall.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Two Stephen F. Austin State University faculty members will present a recital of works by American composers at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, in the Cole Concert Hall.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The East Texas Historical Association, headquartered on the campus of Stephen F. Austin University, will hold its annual fall meeting Sept. 27-29 at Hotel Fredonia in Nacogdoches.

The gathering will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the association in 1962, and a number of special events are planned. The program will feature more than 100 historians making presentations on historical subjects of interest to East Texans.

The SFA Gardens at Stephen F. Austin State University will host "A Walk in the Woods" from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 22 at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center at 2900 Raguet St. Research associate Greg Grant will discuss several good woody plant identification books and then lead participants through the plant center grounds explaining how to identify both common and uncommon East Texas trees, like the hardwoods and evergreen trees pictured in this East Texas landscape.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will present a student-directed production of Yukio Mishima's "The Lady Aoi" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. All performances are in the Downstage Theatre located on the first floor of the Griffith Fine Arts Building.

The one-act play will be directed by Commerce senior Benn May, who is pursuing a bachelor of fine arts degree in performance with an emphasis in directing.