The Penn State School of Theatre will present “A Man of No Importance” at 8 p.m. Oct. 14 to 25 in the Penn State Downtown Theatre Centre. An additional matinee will be held at 2 p.m. Oct. 25.
Tickets are available at the Penn State Downtown Ticket Center, Eisenhower Box Office, Bryce Jordan Center, by calling (814) 863-0255 or (800) ARTS-TIX.
The musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty tells “an extraordinary tale of an ordinary man." Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl." His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. The audience follows him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
For photos from the rehearsals, check Penn State Live at http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/1842