Category: Family

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin

Purdue Convocations Announces its 2024-2025 season

The 2024-2025 Convos Season includes the 29th West Lafayette Global Fest, award-winning jazz and chamber musicians, a curricular integration theatre residency, thought-provoking lectures, family-friendly engagements, and award-winning Broadway musicals and major attractions in Elliott Hall of Music including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Live in Concert, Dear Evan Hansen, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, Hadestown, Pretty Woman: The Musical, and Chicago.

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cast of The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System, photo by Jeremy Daniel

The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System Comes to Purdue

When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip! But when rivalries both old and new threaten to tear the students apart, the young heroes must learn to pull together or risk getting forever lost in the solar system.

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Call of the Wild

“Call of the Wild” Comes to Purdue on November 19

At the heart of this gripping production is Jack London’s timeless novel, a literary masterpiece that transports audiences to the tumultuous era of the Klondike gold rush—a defining moment in North American history.

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Danny Carmo's Mathematical Mysteries

Experience the magic of Danny Carmo’s Mathematical Mysteries

This show is a unique blend of math, theatre, and digital technology that is guaranteed to make math fun and interactive for audiences of all ages.

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The Secret Agency

The Secret Agency

Old school hip hop, funk, and breakdancing meets new school audiences when The Secret Agency hits the stage and classroom.

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Grace for President

Grace For President is Educational and Inspiring!

Grace For President, a family friendly musical produced by Casa Mañana Theatre, will both motivate and educate the youth of today.

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A group of children excitedly reaches toward a large rod puppet, suspended and operated by visible strings during a stage performance with dark, dramatic lighting.

Learn to Make Your Own Rod Puppet!

The sea is filled with fish of different sizes, colors, and talents. Just like you! In the upcoming show, Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure, puppeteers bring these unique underwater creatures to life. Many of the beautifully made puppets are a special type called a rod puppet, meaning they are controlled by rods underneath layers of fabric and other materials. Learn how to make your own aquatic creation.

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Actors in costumes perform on stage with a large, open-mouthed dragon puppet looming over them, resembling the awe-inspiring creatures from Erth's Prehistoric Aquarium, while children in helmets react dramatically under bright lights against a dark background.

3 Creatures You’ll Meet in Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure

By Kristen Day There's no feeling like watching schools of fish swim over your head in an aquarium. Can you imagine being in the sea, swimming alongside them? On February 9th, the immersive puppetry in Erth's Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure allows...
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Three people in theatrical costumes stand close together, smiling widely. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, the person in the center wears a red dress, while those on either side don black berets and sailor-like outfits—all with expressive, cheerful faces.

Down the Rabbit Hole with Alice

By Jordan Howard, Marketing Intern While hiding in her father’s study one day, Alice encounters a strange rabbit who loves to eat books. After chasing him into his hole, Alice discovers Wonderland—a world of strange creatures both friend and foe....
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A group of children and adults sit in teal theater seats, captivated by the magic of theatre. A smiling woman with a girl in a red dress drinking from a cup sits in the foreground. Everyone looks engaged and happy.

Measuring the Magic of Theatre

Theatre is magical. For a few hours, we sit down and are completely immersed into a different world. The performances we see promote connections with the actors on stage and fellow audience members. Theatre transports us to different places and...
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Stomp

Did you know? STOMP Edition

PERFORMANCE FACTS • STOMP has performed in over 350 cities in 36 countries worldwide. • STOMP’s New York City production will celebrate its 15th year at the Orpheum Theatre in February of 2009, which makes it one of the longest-running...
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Danny Carmo

“Danny Carmo’s Mathematical Mysteries” will perform at Purdue on Nov. 11

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Northern Ireland’s premier children’s theatre company, Cahoots NI, will bring “Danny Carmo’s Mathematical Mysteries” to the Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse on Nov. 11 at 3 p.m. This performance is presented by Purdue Convocations with support from...
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