Here's a look at the remainder of the Marshall Artists Series for 2009.

Jan. 31: In conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Marshall University Winter Jazz Festival is Brazilian/jazz music legend Sergio Mendes, the Grammy Award-winning pianist, band-leader and composer.

Mendes' latest CD, "Encanto," (produced with will.i.am of the Black-Eyed Peas), charted as high as No. 6 on the Billboard Top 200 charts and is still in the Top 100 after 60 weeks on the chart.

Feb. 5: "Sweeney Todd" Experience, live on stage, the musical that inspired the Tim Burton and Johnny Depp movie. This revolutionary revival features a multi-talented ensemble of 10 actor/musicians. Music and lyrics by multiple Tony-Award winner Stephen Sondheim and direction/design by Tony-Award winner John Doyle.

Feb. 20-26: Spring International Film Festival. See award-winning films from Lebanon, Bangladesh, Turkey, as well as a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans.

March 7: "Golda's Balcony," the powerful, moving one-woman play about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir performed by Tony Award-winning actress, Tovah Feldshuh.

March 9: The Artists Series also presents its sixth tour of the prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The Kennedy Center's new show, "Blues Journey," tells the history of the blues, its roots in slavery's field hollers and its links to segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, Elvis and hip hop.

April 22: A youth-infused classical show, "The 5 Browns," puts on stage the five dynamic Brown siblings, who made history by being all enrolled at the prestigious Julliard School of Music at the same time. The five-piano-playing siblings have gone on to create top-selling CDs, including their latest, "No Boundaries," which spent 21 weeks at the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Classical charts.

April 28: "The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," the Tony-Award winning new musical comedy about six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.

Go online at www.marshall.edu/muartser for more information.