My Fair Lady, Penn State School of Theatre
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and Music by Frederick Loewe. Directed by Kelsey Robins

Manners maketh the lady—but she’ll decide what makes the woman.

This 8-women cast tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and her transform into a "proper lady." Penn State Downtown Theatre. Please reserve the AD service by April 11, 2026.

Our Town, Penn State Centre Stage

April 18 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Our Town, comes to Penn State Centre Stage this April. In a world that moves faster than ever, take a moment to slow down and rediscover the profound beauty in the everyday. Please reserve the AD service by April 4, 2026

The Morris & Essex Line: Penn State Musical Theatre, Pavilion Theatre. A suburban mother’s midlife crisis collides with her child’s coming of age–all in one trip on New Jersey Transit. Take a ride with this new musical from the Larson Award-winning writers of I Love You Because. PLEASE RESERVE THE AD SERVICE BY FEBRUARY 20TH!

HADESTOWN, Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Auditorium

Come see how the world could be! Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and original director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) It is a love story for today…and always. PLEASE RESERVE THE AD SERVICE BY FEBRUARY 17TH!

Legally Blonde, the Musical, at the State College Area Hight School Performing Arts Center

The State HIgh Thespians present “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” Legally Blonde follows Elle Woods, a fashion-loving sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex, only to discover her own intelligence, confidence, and passion for the law. Through catchy songs and courtroom triumphs, Elle proves she can succeed by being unapologetically herself. PLEASE RESERVE THE AD SERVICE BY CALLING JOSIE AT 814-238-0132 BY FEBRUARY 1, 2026.

SIX, Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Auditorium: From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix 500 years of historical heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of twenty-first century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their heads over! The musical won the 2022 Tony Award for Original Score. The SIX: Live on Opening Night Broadway album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard cast album charts and surpassed one billion streams worldwide. PLEASE RESERVE THE AD SERVICE BY NOVEMBER 6TH!

ANTIGONE, Penn State Centre Stage, at the Pavilion TheatreIn a contemporary world fraught with political tension and familial duty, Antigone finds herself at a crossroads between conscience and law. The daughter of a once-mighty family, she is driven to defy the tyrannical decree of King Creon, her uncle, who has outlawed the burial of her brother Polynices, branding him a traitor. Faced with the harsh realities of a corrupt system, Antigone’s act of defiance to honor her brother’s spirit places her in direct opposition to the state and the laws that bind it. What follows is a tragic clash between the values of family, justice, and duty—one that questions the very nature of right and wrong in a world where resistance may cost everything.PLEASE RESERVE THE AD SERVICE BY NOVEMBER 1ST !

CRAZY FOR YOU, Penn State Centre Stage, School of Theatre, at the PSU Playhouse Theatre. Put on your dancing shoes as you are transported back to the Roaring Twenties by Crazy for You, the Tony Award®-winning, toe-tapping, romantic musical comedy that has delighted audiences worldwide. Featuring iconic Gershwin songs such as “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I Got Rhythm,” and “Embraceable You,” Crazy for You delivers comic high jinks, spectacular dance numbers, and fun for the entire family. Following the triumph of last season’s smash hit Cabaret, Josh Rhodes’ direction and choreography will delight you with this brand-new production of a deliciously old- fashioned musical. PLEASE RESERVE THE AD SERVICE BY OCTOBER 18TH.

Disney’s Moana, Live-to-Film Concert, North American Tour, Eisenhower Auditorium. Disney Concerts and AMP Worldwide present Disney’s Moana Live-to-Film Concert North American tour, a celebration of the music and songs from the 2016 award-winning Walt Disney Animation Studios’ classic. The event features a full-length screening of the beloved movie, by live performances of a unique on-stage musical ensemble of top Hollywood studio musicians, Polynesian rhythm masters, and vocalists. PLEASE RESERVE THE AD SERVICE BY SEPTEMBER 30TH.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND PSU School of Theatre

Audio Described: Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:00 pm, Playhouse Theatre

A combination of the well-known stories of Lewis Carroll–Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There–this production looks at the indelible themes of change, growth, desire, status, societal rules, and loss of innocence, as we unravel the mystery of the human psyche through a highly physical and metaphoric trip down the rabbit hole. PG-13

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by April 12, 2025.

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, THE MUSICAL

Audio Described: Saturday, April 12, 2025, 2:00 pm, Pavilion Theatre

This musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy—filled with romance, revelry and enchanting music—brings together the language of the bard with a fresh contemporary pop-rock score. The King and his best buds decide at their five-year college reunion to swear off the joys of women. But when four cute, clever girls from their past show up, they’re forced to reconsider all of that nonsense! Smart, sexy, outrageous, and irreverent, Love's Labour's Lost is a madcap celebration of true love and coming of age.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by March 29, 2025.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING PSU School of Theater

Audio Described: Monday, March 3, 2025, 7:30 pm, Playhouse Theatre

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying centers on a young window-cleaner, J. Pierrepont Finch, who begins a meteoric rise from the mail room to Vice President of Advertising at the World-Wide Wicket Company. Finch's unorthodox and morally questionable business practices jeopardize not only his career but also his romance with Secretary Rosemary Pilkington.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Feb 17, 2025.

URINETOWN

Sunday, February 2, 2025, 2:00 pm at the State College Area High School Performing Arts Center

A hilarious satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theater itself.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Jan 19, 2025.

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Audio-described December 18, 2:00 pm AND December 19, 7:30 pm at Schwab Auditorium

Join us for this classic holiday story! This will be a unique series of performances to benefit the School of Theatre and Centre Stage, performed by the professional artists on the School’s faculty, along with students and members of the community in a truly unique Town and Gown event for the holiday season.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Dec 4/5, 2024

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Audio-described December 18, 2:00 pm AND December 19, 7:30 pm at Schwab Auditorium

Join us for this classic holiday story! This will be a unique series of performances to benefit the School of Theatre and Centre Stage, performed by the professional artists on the School’s faculty, along with students and members of the community in a truly unique Town and Gown event for the holiday season.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Dec 4/5, 2024

SWEENEY TODD Monday, November 18, 2024 7:30 pm at the Playhouse Theatre A MUSICAL THRILLER! Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd— Stephen Sondheim’s twisted story of love, revenge, and infamous meat pies! With a razor-sharp thirst for vengeance, Todd’s path converges with the cunning pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett. Together, they form a macabre partnership, crafting meat pies that satiate more than just hunger. But the relentless pursuit of justice takes a turn as Todd’s razor weaves a chilling narrative.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Oct. 28, 2024.

JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN

Saturday, October 19, 2024 2:00 pm at the Pavilion Theatre

At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, they begin to question who is really the hero and what is the truth, discovering their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this comedy captures a generation in midtransformation, running on pop music, optimism, and fury, writing their own coming of age story.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Oct. 5, 2024.

TINA! – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL

Sun, Oct 6, 2024, 7:30 pm at Eisenhower Auditorium

TINA—THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is the triumphant story of the Queen of Rock and Roll set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits! The show presents Tina’s journey against all odds to become one of the world’s most beloved artists of all time. Featuring her much-loved songs, the musical is written by Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Katori Hall.

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Sept 22, 2024

CHANTICLEER, SING JOYFULLY

Thurs, Sept 26, 2024, 7:30 pm at Eisenhower Auditorium

Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the Renaissance, but throughout its forty-six years, the ensemble has continued to push boundaries to include a range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and new commissions and arrangements. The program Sing Joyfully explores the ensemble’s mastery of its repertoire with performances of motets by William Byrd and Heinrich Isaac; folk songs like “Shenandoah” and “Calling My Children Home”; settings of the jazz standards “Blue Skies” and “Lost in the Stars”; as well as contemporary arrangements of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” and Queen’s “Somebody to Love.”

Please call Josie Kantner to order tickets at 814-238-0132 by Sept 12, 2024

Bernarda Alba: Sunday, April 14, 2024, 2 PM, PSU Centre Stage
Penn State Downtown Theatre at Beaver Ave and Allen St.
RESERVE TICKETS by March 31, 2024 by calling the SLSG office at 814-238-0132.

Words and Music by Michael John LaChiusa
Directed and Choreographed by Christopher Campbell

LaChiusa brings a musical voice to Federico García Lorca’s final 1936 masterpiece, The House of Bernarda Alba, through pulsing castanets, trilling Spanish guitars and resounding rhythmic stomps.

TARTUFFE: Saturday, March 23, 2024, 7:30 PM
Pavilion Theatre on the Penn State Campus
RESERVE TICKETS BY MARCH 7TH, 2024

Tartuffe is a sanctimonious scoundrel who, professing extreme piety, is taken into the household of Orgon, a wealthy man. Under the guise of ministering to the family’s spiritual and moral needs, he almost destroys Orgon’s family.

URINETOWN: Saturday, February 24, 2024, 7:30 PM
Playhouse Theatre on the Penn State Campus
RESERVE TICKETS BY FEBRUARY 8TH, 2024

A musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself.

PIRATES OF PENZANCE: February 4, 2024, 2:00 PM
State College Area High School Thespians, SCAHS Auditorium
RESERVE TICKETS BY JANUARY 19th, 2024

According to Wikipedia, The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert and Sullivan, is a comic opera in two acts. 

“The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets a daughter, Mabel of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic soon learns, however, that he was born on the 29th of February, and so, technically, he has a birthday only once each leap year. His indenture specifies that he remain apprenticed to the pirates until his "twenty-first birthday", meaning that he must serve for another 63 years. Bound by his own sense of duty, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully.”

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL Special School of Theatre and Centre Stage Event: Playhouse Theatre at Penn State Thursday, December 21st at 7:30 pm. Join us for this classic holiday story! This will be a unique series of performances to benefit the School of Theatre and Centre Stage, performed by the professional artists on the School of Theatre’s faculty, along with students and members of the community in a truly unique Town and Gown event for the holiday season. Please reserve tickets through the SLSG (814-238-0132) by DECEMBER 7, 2023

BONNETS: HOW LADIES OF GOOD BREEDING ARE INDUCED TO MURDER - Centre Stage, Pavilion Theatre at Penn State. A Rock ‘n Roll Story of Unrequited Love, one about Lust, and another about Jealousy, that fall into each other across Space and Time, ending in a total blood bath, narrated by God. Saturday, December 2 at 2 pm. Please reserve tickets through the SLSG (814-238-0132) by November 15, 2023. NOTE: This production contains adult language and violence.

COME FROM AWAY (MUSICAL) – Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Auditorium at Penn State CONSULT THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS WEBPAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION as it becomes available at https://cpa.psu.edu/allevents . Tuesday, November 7th at 7:30 pm. RESERVE TICKETS through the SLSG office (814-238-0132) ASAP BUT NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 24th. THIS WILL BE A VERY POPULAR SHOW.

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 - Centre Stage, the Playhouse Theatre at Penn State, present the musical “..The Great Comet”. A musical by David Malloy, Directed and Choreographed by Christine O’Grady, this musical is a fanciful retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace…this electropop opera gives musical flair to this classic work of literature. Sunday, October 29th at 2:00 pm. Please reserve tickets through the SLSG office (814-238-0132) by October 15, 2023.

HIT THE WALL – CENTRE STAGE at the Pavilion Theater at Penn State presents Hit the Wall. Written by Ike Holter and directed by Robert W. Schneider, Hit the Wall tells the story of the historic Stonewall Riots with a spirit of rebellion and self-affirmation. Saturday, October 7th at 2 pm. Please reserve tickets through the SLSG (814-238-0132) by September 23, 2023.

The Centre for the Performing Arts presents BLUEY’S BIG PLAY, the Stage Show , (a children’s play). When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans. Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy Award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm and new music by Bluey composer Joff Bush. At the Eisenhower Auditorium at Penn State, Thursday Sept.7, 2023 at 6:30pm. Please reserve tickets through the SLSG (814-238-0132) by August 24, 2023.