A black actress performing a high kick with her arms outstretched.

Perfoming Arts Degree Programs

It's your premiere

Bring your talent to the stage. Build the skills to take it anywhere.

Your passion for performance becomes something more at Penn State. Train, create, collaborate, and perform alongside dedicated faculty and fellow artists as you develop your voice and prepare for what comes next.

Whether your place is on stage, behind the scenes, or making music, you’ll find opportunities to challenge yourself, build confidence, and turn what you love into what you do.

You bring the talent and drive. We’ll help you take it further.

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Undergraduate Performing Arts Programs

Performing Arts Minors + Certificates

Alumni Spotlight

Performing Arts

Penn State alumnus Michael Schutz playing a Glockenspiel.
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Michael Schutz

Music, B.M. 2002

Michael Schutz, who combined a B.M in Music with a B.S. in Computer Science at Penn State, now is associate professor of music cognition/percussion at McMaster University, where he conducts the percussion ensemble and teaches courses on music perception and cognition. He was named a University Scholar in recognition of his innovative work bridging music performance and music perception.

Performing Arts Sights & Sounds...

School of Music orchestra performance showcasing a violinist..
Overhead shot of large singing choir arrayed on bleachers around a grand piano in the Penn State Recital Hall
Theatre student running control board
Theatrica scene from teh play American Idiot with actors circled around the lead character who is high above on a ladder or plinth.
A view from above looking over the shoulder of a blonde student cellist playing
Male and female actors playing a scene in an ornate room filled with bright pink amnd gold fabrics and objects.
A male and a female student facing each other, each holding a microphone and singing
School of Music student playing the guitar on stage during the Mardi Gras Jazz Concert at the Recital Hall.
View of a mixing board, from over the shoulder of the operating student
Musicians in formal white attire playing under the direction of a conductor with baton raised
School of Music students dressed in tuxedos, playing their cellos during a Mosaic performance.
A very dark scene, with a student actor brightly lit in the foreground, and another blurred actress in the background
Three actresses wearing bright red and burgundy dresses looking ahead as a flurry of papers fall through the air in the background
A group of four female singers holding microphones and gesturing as a group.
School of Music orchestra performance.
Two actors perform in Penn State Opera Theatre's production of "Trouble in Tahiti"
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Three actors, two i nthe foregraound and one looking on from the background, in a performance of Frog and Toad.