Five nationally touring Broadway shows, award-winning musicians, dance troupes and more will be part of the Center for Performing Arts at Penn State’s 2018-19 season.
“The coming season offers opportunities for people to come together and share engaging performances by world-renowned artists that both entertain and enrich our life experiences, allowing us to see ourselves and the world around us in new and illuminating ways,” said George Trudeau, center director.
Broadway shows coming to the center include ‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Something Rotten!,’ ‘Finding Neverland,’ ‘The King and I,’ and ‘Beautiful: The Carol King Musical.’
Making its Penn State debut, ‘Beautiful’ will have seven performances from Feb. 19 to Feb. 24 at Eisenhower Auditorium.
“Having that number of performances in our smaller market definitely pushes us to reach farther outside of Centre County then we typically do,” said Laura Sullivan, marketing director. “If we continue to do well with longer runs and we demonstrate that our regional market can support a week tour, then we will we will have an opportunity to bring larger productions to Centre County.”
Among the other performances on the slate are the contemporary circus of Cirque Éloize, family shows, three dance troupes and music from every corner of the world.
The 2018-19 Center for the Performing Arts schedule:
– Veronica Swift, jazz vocalist, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 20, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Cantus, a capella octet, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 25, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
– Cirque Éloize, contemporary circus, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 3, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Joshua Bell, violinist and conductor, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Ballet Hispánico, multinational dance troupe, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 17, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, contemporary big band, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 23, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Escher String Quarter, classical ensemble, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 30, Schwab Auditorium
– ‘Something Rotten!,’ 7:30 p.m., Nov. 7, Eisenhower Auditorium
– ‘Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly,’ Dallas Children’s Theater, 4 p.m., Nov. 11, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer, multi-genre music, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 14, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Soweto Gospel Choir, ‘Songs of the Free: Celebrating the Centenary of Nelson Mandela,’ 7:30 p.m., Nov. 27, Eisenhower Auditorium
– ‘Mosaic,’ Penn State School of Music, 4 p.m., Dec. 2, Eisenhower Auditorium
– ‘Finding Neverland,’ 7:30 p.m., Jan. 23, Eisenhower Auditorium
– BodyTraffic, multi-genre dance troupe, 7:30 p.m., Jan. 26, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Regina Carter, ‘Simply Ella,’ violinist, 7:30 p.m, Jan. 31, Schwab Auditorium
– Sounds of China, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 5, Schwab Auditorium
– “Me … Jane: The Dreams and Adventures of Young Jane Goodall,” The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour, 4 p.m., Feb. 10, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Sybarite5, multi-genre music ensemble, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 13, Schwab Auditorium
– ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,’ 7:30 p.m., Feb. 19–23; 2 p.m. Feb. 23–24, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Czech National Symphony Orchestra, ‘100 Years of Leonard Bernstein,’ 7:30 p.m., Feb. 27, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, “Tales of Two Cities: The Leipzig-Damascus Coffee House,” 7:30 p.m., Feb. 28, Schwab Auditorium
– Utban Bush Women, “Hair & Other Stories,” dance-theater, 7:30 p.m., March 14, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour 60th Anniversary Celebration, 7:30 p.m., March 27, Eisenhower Auditorium
– ‘The King and I,’ 7:30 p.m., March 28, Eisenhower Auditorium
– Dreamers’ Circus, Scandinavian folk trio, 7:30 p.m., April 3, Schwab Auditorium
– ‘Kinky Boots,’ 7:30 p.m. April 9-10, Eisenhower Auditorium
– ‘Night Train 57,’ folk opera, 4 p.m., April 14
For tickets and details visit cpa.psu.edu/
