Penn StateCentre Stage

Announcing: the 2023–24 PSCS Season Productions

Tickets on sale July 2023!

Hit the Wall

By Ike Holter
Hit the Wall tells the story of the historic Stonewall Riots with a spirit of rebellion and self-affirmation.

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Musical by David Malloy
A fanciful retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this electropop opera gives musical flair to this classic work of literature.

Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder

By Jen Silverman
A Rock ‘n Roll Story of Unrequited Love, one about Lust, and another about Jealousy, that fall into each other across Space and Time, ending in a total blood bath, narrated by God.

Urinetown

Musical by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis
A musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tartuffe

By Molière, translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur
Tartuffe is a sanctimonious scoundrel who, professing extreme piety, is taken into the household of Orgon, a wealthy man. Under the guise of ministering to the family’s spiritual and moral needs, he almost destroys Orgon’s family.

Bernarda Alba

Words and Music by Michael John LaChiusa
LaChiusa brings a musical voice to Federico García Lorca’s final 1936 masterpiece, The House of Bernarda Alba, through pulsing castanets, trilling Spanish guitars and resounding rhythmic stomps.

Falsettos

Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Falsettos revolves around the life of a charming, intelligent, neurotic gay man named Marvin, his wife, lover, about-to-be-Bar-Mitzvahed son, their psychiatrist, and the lesbians next door. It’s a hilarious and achingly poignant look at the infinite possibilities that make up a modern family… and a beautiful reminder that love can tell a million stories.

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