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Jessica Lang Dance

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Center for the Performing Arts
A male dancer holds a female dancer on his shoulders while she extends her legs to the left.

Jessica Lang Dance

Date: 
7:30 pm Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Event Description: 

“A master of visual composition” (Dance Magazine), choreographer Jessica Lang transforms ballet language into artfully crafted, emotionally engaging contemporary works.

Artistic Viewpoints | RENT

Artistic Viewpoints

Date: 
6:30 pm Thursday, April 6, 2017
Location: 

Eisenhower Auditorium

Artistic Viewpoints, an informal moderated discussion featuring a visiting artist or artists, is offered in Eisenhower one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders. Artistic Viewpoints regularly fills to capacity, so seating is available on a first-arrival basis.

RENT

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A stencil-style logo illustrates the 20th anniversary of the hit Broadway musical "Rent."

RENT

Date: 
7:30 pm Thursday, April 6, 2017
Event Description: 

In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway—and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson’s RENT continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this P

DakhaBrakha

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
The members of DakhaBrakha, dressed in traditional-style Ukraine folk costumes and tall lamb's wool headgear, stand for a photo.

DakhaBrakha

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Event Description: 

A quartet from Kiev, Ukraine, DakhaBrakha creates a world of unexpected music at the intersection of folklore and theatre.

Artistic Viewpoints | Anthracite Fields

Artistic Viewpoints

Date: 
6:30 pm Thursday, March 30, 2017
Location: 

Eisenhower Auditorium

Artistic Viewpoints, an informal moderated discussion featuring Anthracite Fields composer Julia Wolfe, is offered in Eisenhower one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders. Artistic Viewpoints regularly fills to capacity, so seating is available on a first-arrival basis.

Anthracite Fields

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A coal miner dusted with coal soot and wearing a hardhat with lamp looks blankly at the camera in a historic photo.

Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields
Bang on a Can All-Stars
with Penn State Concert Choir
Christopher Kiver, conductor

Date: 
7:30 pm Thursday, March 30, 2017
Event Description: 

Bang on a Can All-Stars, which performed Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer at the Center for the Performing Arts in 2009, returns for a concert featuring Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio Anthracite Fields.

Fred Hersch Trio

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
Jazz bandleader and musician Fred Hersch, standing against a distressed brick wall, looks directly at the camera in a portrait shot.

Fred Hersch Trio
with Special Guest Anat Cohen

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Event Description: 

A New York Times Sunday Magazine feature describes pianist and composer Fred Hersch as “singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz—a jazz for the twenty-first century.” A writer for Vanity Fair calls him “the

Artistic Viewpoints | PIPPIN

Artistic Viewpoints

Date: 
6:30 pm Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Location: 

Eisenhower Auditorium

Artistic Viewpoints, an informal moderated discussion featuring PIPPIN cast members Ishma’el Edwards and Jenni Poole, is offered in Eisenhower one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders. Artistic Viewpoints regularly fills to capacity, so seating is available on a first-arrival basis.

PIPPIN

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A logo for "Pippin" features the word illuminated by glitter and streams of light.

PIPPIN

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Event Description: 

PIPPIN is a high-flying, death-defying hit Broadway musical! Full of extraordinary acrobatics, wondrous magical feats, and soaring songs from the composer of Wicked, PIPPIN will lift you up and leave you smiling.

Kids Connections | Frog and Toad

Kids Connections

Date: 
1:00 pm Sunday, March 19, 2017
Location: 

Eisenhower Auditorium

Kids Connections, which is free for ticket holders and includes a craft-centered, child-friendly activity provided by Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center and books provided by Schlow Centre Region Library, takes place in Eisenhower Auditorium one hour before the show. Due to space and time restrictions, Kids Connections participation is limited.

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