Axe ’Em, Jacks!
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Children’s Performing Arts Series at Stephen F. Austin State University will open its 2023-24 season with a touring musical of the childhood favorite “Cinderella” on Thursday, Oct. 19, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.
Bullied by her two mean stepsisters, Cinderella’s future looks bleak until her Fairy Godmother casts a spell and sends her to the ball. How will the Prince ever find her when she flees at midnight, leaving behind a single glass slipper?
SFA filmmaking program to premiere ‘CUT!’
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and SFA’s filmmaking program will premiere its summer film project, “CUT!,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, in Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.
Singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster to perform at SFA
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The first event in the return of the University Series at Stephen F. Austin State University will be a performance by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the newly renovated Turner Auditorium in Griffith Fine Arts Building.
Photos, videos available to celebrate SFA’s Centennial
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Hundreds of past, present and future Lumberjacks as well as Nacogdoches community members came to Stephen F. Austin State University Sept. 15-18 for the university’s centennial in a four-day celebration that began with an awards ceremony and ended with a cake-filled birthday party.
Award-winning pianist to present concert at SFA
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Award-winning pianist Dr. Martin Kesuma will perform works by Nikolai Kapustin, Alberto Ginastera, Manuel de Falla and other varied composers when he presents a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.
SFA’s Friday Night Film Series to screen ‘The Good Exorcist’
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of “The Good Exorcist,” a 2018 film cowritten by Josh Stifter and Daniel Degnan and directed by Stifter. The screening is at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House.
Opening Thursday: SFA presents Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’
Country artists Pat Green and Hailey Whitters to co-headline SFA’s Homecoming celebration
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Country music artists Pat Green and Hailey Whitters are slated to co-headline Stephen F. Austin State University’s annual Homecoming festivities at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Intramural Fields, located on the corner of Starr Avenue and Wilson Drive.
SFA’s Student Activities Association is hosting the event, which brings thousands of current and former students as well as SFA supporters together in celebration.
SFA’s Mainstage Series: ‘The Piano Lesson’ teaches importance of knowing one’s history
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Almost 20 years ago, Cleo House Jr., director of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre and Dance, performed the role of Boy Willie in August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson.” Wilson, a prolific and skillful playwright who would win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama for his writing, attended one of the performances and autographed House’s script.
SFA Gardens’ October lecture to feature talk on landscape shrubs
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.
Dr. Allen Owings, professor emeritus of horticulture at the Louisiana State University AgCenter, will present “Common Landscape Shrubs: Varieties and Keys to Success.”