Central PA Live Theater

January 25, 2011

Location: Eisenhower Auditorium

Time: 7:30 PM

Ticket Info: call 814-863-0255

Adult $55, $49   |   University Park Student $40, $34   |   18 and Younger $50, $44

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, the Tony Award-winning musical that has captured the hearts of people around the world with its universal appeal, embarks on a North American tour. Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF has been lauded by critics again and again. Filled with a rousing and heartwarming score, including “Tradition,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” and “Sunrise, Sunset,” FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a timeless classic. No other musical has so magically woven music, dance, poignancy, and laughter into such an electrifying and unforgettable experience. Relive a glorious tradition of the musical theatre with FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

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March 29, 2011

Location: Pasquerilla Spiritual Center

Time: 7:30 PM

Ticket Info: call 814-863-0255 General admission seating

Adult $30   |   University Park Student $15   |   18 and Younger $23           

When the women of Trio Mediæval first came to Penn State to perform with the Bang on a Can All-Stars in November 2009, they visited the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center for a bit of vocalizing. What they discovered astounded them. The Scandinavian singers reported that Pasquerilla was among the best acoustical spaces in which they had sung in North America. So Trio Mediæval is back, this time in a new setting. The sopranos, who formed their trio in Oslo, Norway, in 1997, sing an inviting repertoire of polyphonic medieval music from England and France, Norwegian folk ballads, and traditional-style songs composed for them. “Singing,” a San Francisco Chronicle critic asserts, “doesn’t get more unnervingly beautiful” than that of Trio Mediæval. “To hear the group’s note-perfect counterpoint—as pristine and inviting as clean, white linens—is to be astonished at what the human voice is capable of.”

Complimentary round-trip shuttle service is provided between the Eisenhower Parking Deck and the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.

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April 12 and 13, 2011

Location: Eisenhower Auditorium

Time: 7:30 PM

Ticket Information: call 814-863-0255

Adult $57, $51   |   University Park Student $42, $36   |   18 and Younger $52, $46

Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical—and told by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater through “The most gorgeous Broadway score this decade” (Entertainment Weekly)—SPRING AWAKENING explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with poignancy and passion you will never forget. SPRING AWAKENING is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality, and rock and roll that is exhilarating audiences across the nation like no other musical in years. Join this group of late nineteenth-century German students as they navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion. SPRING AWAKENING is daring and remarkable. “Broadway,” a New York Times reviewer writes, “may never be the same again.”

This performance includes mature themes and language.

Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for the April 13 performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

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April 10, 2011

Location: Eisenhower Auditorium

Time: 2:00 PM

Ticket Information: call 814-863-0255

Adult $18   |   University Park Student $8   |   18 and Younger $13

The musical Room on the Broom, adapted from the best-selling book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and performed by London’s Tall Stories Theatre Company, features incredible puppets, original songs, and lots of fun. The playful and lively show follows a happy witch and her cat as their enjoyable broomstick ride is interrupted by a stormy wind that blows away the witch’s hat, bow, and wand. A dog, a bird, and a frog find the witch’s things and hop on the broom for a ride. The broomstick isn’t built for five, though, and it soon snaps in two. When a hungry dragon appears, who will save the witch? And will the broom ever accommodate everyone? The musical showcases the British company’s distinctive physical and visual performance style.

Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for the performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

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October 6 & 7, 2010

Location: Eisenhower Auditorium

Time: 7:30 PM

Ticket Info: call 814-863-0255

One play: Adult $32 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $26

Both plays: Adult $50 | University Park Student $20 | 18 and Younger $40

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, and left to die. Five weeks later, Mois

A decade after Shepard’s death, Tectonic Theater Project members went back to Laramie to ask more questions. Has the murder had a lasting impact on the community? How has the town changed? What does Laramie tell us about life in today’s America? The results of the follow-up interviews form the basis of a sequel production, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later–An Epilogue.

Each presentation includes a post-performance discussion among the actors and audience members.

és Kaufman and fellow members of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, where they conducted more than 200 interviews with townspeople. From those interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town in the year after the murder. A reviewer for the Associated Press calls The Laramie Project, which has become one of the most frequently produced plays in America, “astonishing. Not since Angels in America has a play attempted so much: nothing less than an examination of the American psyche at the end of the millennium.”

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Location: Boal Barn Playhouse

Time: 10:30AM & 2:00PM

Class Act Productions Presents “We Will Remember: A Tribute to Veterans” by Sandra Fenichel Asher

Monday, May 31st  10:30AM and 2:00PM

At the Boal Barn Playhouse

$5 Adult, $3 Children under 13, Veterans free admission Tickets may be purchased at the door, starting one hour prior to each performance.

This touching drama artistically follows a group a students as they seek to understand and remember the experiences of American veterans.  History is brought to life on stage as they explore Civil War letters, a journal kept during the Normandy invasion, visit veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars, interview a grandmother whose young husband served in WWII, and gain an understanding of what it means to have sacrificed for freedom.  Young and old alike will be captivated by this simple tribute to those who have served our nation; a tribute which will inspire others to keep the legacy of veterans alive.  For more information email ClassActProduction@gmail.com

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Monday April 5, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM

See Ingrid Michaelson with special guest Cara Salimando at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Avenue. More information is available on the official State Theatre website.

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Ingrid Michaelson’s music has been featured on the hit TV show Grey’s Anatomy. If you’re going to be in the State College area, don’t miss this concert!

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Tuesday March 30, 2010

Time: 8:00 pm

Henry Rollins, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, singer-songwriter, actor, radio DJ and character on the FX biker drama Sons of Anarchy, will be at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Avenue! More information: http://www.thestatetheatre.org/Events/viewevent.php?id=616

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