The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State has named State College resident Elizabeth Hanley, a retired Penn State faculty member, recipient of its 2012 Distinguished Service Award. (more)
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State's 2012-2013 season of music, theater and dance presentations from around the world features the Centre County debut of the musical comedy The Addams Family, the touring Broadway shows Hair and Tap Dogs, Toronto's Opera Atelier in The Magic Flute, the return of Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka with an elite line-up of banjo buddies and the second season of a three-year journey through the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven. (more)
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, renowned for making exceptional music that crosses eras and genres, performs classical, jazz and Spanish Renaissance selections in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in Penn State's Schwab Auditorium. (more)
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State is partnering with Penn State Altoona to present a free Brentano String Quartet concert and outreach activity at Penn State Altoona Thursday, March 22. The quartet, ensemble-in-residence at Princeton University since 1999, also will perform and interact with the public at Penn State's University Park campus on Friday, March 23. (more)
Uganda is a nation of children. About half of the country's more than 33 million people are younger than 14. Spirit of Uganda, a professional training and touring program of the nonprofit organization Empower African Children, comes to Penn State's Eisenhower Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, to share the music and dance of the lush and diverse East African country. (more)
The smash-hit musical "American Idiot," based on Green Day's Grammy-winning multiplatinum album, tells the story of three lifelong friends forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. The touring Broadway musical will make its Penn State debut with two performances at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 28 and 29, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus. (more)
Tease your hair and get your cutoff shirts ready. The worldwide party musical "Rock of Ages" will bring favorite hits from the 1980s to the stage at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, in Penn State's Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus. (more)
Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes, known as the "dean of Latin jazz," has recorded more than 80 albums and performed with a plethora of elite jazz makers. Valdes makes his Penn State debut when he performs with his band, the Afro-Cuban Messengers, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, in Eisenhower Auditorium. (more)
Israeli-born violinist virtuoso Guy Braunstein, who trained with Pinchas Zuckerman, will join Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in Penn State's Eisenhower Auditorium. The orchestra also is scheduled to perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' overture from the symphonic suite "The Wasps" and Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 in D minor. (more)
Audra McDonald, one of only three actresses to earn four Tony Awards on Broadway, will make her Penn State concert debut at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus.
Joined by a jazz ensemble -- pianist and music director Andy Einhorn, bassist Mark Vanderpoel and drummer Gene Lewin -- McDonald will perform favorite show tunes, classic songs from the movies and original pieces written for her. (more)
