University Park, Pa.--Individual-performance and discounted Choice series tickets for more than two dozen 2009–2010 presentations at Eisenhower and Schwab auditoriums are on sale now.
Patrons are eligible for a free 15-song Broadway iTunes card, while supplies last, with a purchase. There is a limit of one iTunes card per customer. The offer is not valid at the Bryce Jordan Center box office.
The September 2009 through April 2010 Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State season features an array of world-class music, theater and dance presentations, including the musical comedy "Avenue Q," the hip-hop dance show "Groovaloo," the return of "Mamma Mia!," an updated "Stomp," banjo picker Béla Fleck, Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band, Irish fiddler Eileen Ivers, "Thank You Gregory! A Tribute to the Legends of Tap" and the family musical "A Year with Frog and Toad."
Tickets are available online at www.cpa.psu.edu; by phone at (814) 863-0255 or 1 (800) ARTS-TIX; or in person at Eisenhower (8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays), Penn State Tickets Downtown (10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays) and the Bryce Jordan Center (10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays). For a season schedule and more details, visit www.cpa.psu.edu and click on EVENTS.
Patrons who purchase tickets to four or more events earn a 10 percent discount and other benefits.
CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 2009–2010 PRESENTATIONS
Performances are in Eisenhower Auditorium unless indicated as being in Schwab Auditorium (SA). Artists, programs, dates and times are subject to change.
Jeffrey Siegel
Keyboard Conversations®
The Power and Passion of Beethoven
7:30 p.m. Sept. 23 (SA)
Imani Winds with Special Guest Stefon Harris
7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 (SA)
Thank You, Gregory!
A Tribute to the Legends of Tap
7:30 p.m. Oct. 2
The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon
Enchantment Theatre Company
2 p.m. Oct. 4
Avenue Q
7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 and 7
Julian Lage Group
7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 (SA)
Emerson String Quartet
7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 (SA)
Orquestra de São Paulo
Kazem Abdullah, conductor
Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussionist
7:30 p.m. Oct. 23
Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band
Directed by Slide Hampton
Featuring James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove, Cyrus Chestnut, Steve Davis, Roberta Gambarini, Antonio Hart, John Lee and Terell Stafford
7:30 p.m. Oct. 28
Martha Graham Dance Company
Clytemnestra
7:30 p.m. Nov. 5
Kronos Quartet
Awakening
7:30 p.m. Nov. 10
Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company
7:30 p.m. Nov. 17
Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval
Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer
7:30 p.m. Nov. 19
Sweet Honey in the Rock
7:30 p.m. Dec. 2
If You Give a Pig a Pancake and Other Story Books
TheatreworksUSA
2 p.m. Jan. 24
Capuçon-Angelich Trio
7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 (SA)
The Actors’ Gang
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
7:30 p.m. Feb. 2
Groovaloo
7:30 p.m. Feb. 11
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour
Featuring Kenny Barron Trio, Regina Carter, Kurt Elling and Russell Malone
7:30 p.m. Feb. 16
Béla Fleck
The Africa Project
Collaborations with Amazing African Musicians
7:30 p.m. March 3
Eileen Ivers
Beyond the Bog Road
7:30 p.m. March 19
A Year with Frog and Toad
2 p.m. March 27
Aulos Ensemble
7:30 p.m. March 27 (SA)
Stomp
7:30 p.m. March 30 and 31
Mamma Mia!
7:30 p.m. April 13, 14, and 15
Terence Blanchard Quintet
7:30 p.m. April 20 (SA)