Join for this classic holiday story! This will be a unique series of performances to benefit the School of Theatre and Centre Stage, performed by the professional artists on the School’s faculty, along with students and members of the community in a truly unique Town and Gown event for the holiday season.

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Special School of Theatre and Centre Stage Event: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

The Pennsylvania State University

Count Claudio falls in love with Hero, the daughter of his host. Hero's cousin Beatrice (a confirmed spinster) and Benedict (an eternal bachelor) are each duped into believing the other is in love with them. Claudio is deceived by a malicious plot and denounces Hero as unchaste before they marry.

Special School of Theatre Production: Much Ado About Nothing

Penn State School of Theatre

A MUSICAL THRILLER! Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd—Stephen Sondheim’s twisted story of love, revenge, and infamous meat pies!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Penn State School of Music

At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, they begin to question who is really the hero and what is the truth, discovering their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy captures a generation in mid-transformation, running on pop music, optimism, and fury, writing their own coming of age story.

John Proctor is the Villain

Your $49 admission includes hors d’oeuvres, libations, and performance. Meet the directors, designers, and students who will be producing the 2024-25 season; catch a glimpse of the upcoming productions; and purchase tickets to the shows!

Special Event: Sneak Preview

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.

Falsettos

A combination of the well known stories of Lewis Carroll–Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There–this production looks at the indelible themes of change, growth, desire, status, societal rules, and loss of innocence, as we unravel the mystery of the human psyche through a highly physical and metaphoric trip down the rabbit hole. PG-13

Alice in Wonderland

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.

Bernarda Alba

This musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy—filled with romance, revelry and enchanting music—brings together the language of the bard with a fresh contemporary pop-rock score. The King and his best buds decide at their five-year college reunion to swear off the joys of women. But when four cute, clever girls from their past show up, they’re forced to reconsider all of that nonsense! Smart, sexy, outrageous, and irreverent, Love's Labour's Lost is a madcap celebration of true love and coming of age.

Love's Labour's Lost: The Musical

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.

Tartuffe

A musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Urinetown

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying centers on a young window-cleaner, J. Pierrepont Finch, who begins a meteoric rise from the mail room to Vice President of Advertising at the World-Wide Wicket Company. Finch's unorthodox and morally questionable business practices jeopardize not only his career but also his romance with Secretary Rosemary Pilkington.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Join the students of the FIU Opera Workshop as they perform Henry Purcell's monumental Baroque opera, Dido & Aeneas. Eager to destroy Carthage, an evil sorceress plots to end the engagement of the Carthaginian queen, Dido, to the Trojan hero, Aeneas. Tricked into believing that the gods want him to leave Carthage and found the city of Rome, Aeneas is forced to abandon Dido. Recognizing that she cannot live with the shame and the sorrow, or continue leading her people, Dido accepts her deadly fate. Don’t miss this heartbreaking tale of love and loyalty based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid. The production will be staged by the Director of the FIU Opera Workshop, Robert B. Dundas, and accompanied by the FIU Collegium, conducted by Juvenal Correa-Salas.

FIU Opera Theater presents "Dido & Aeneas" by Henry Purcell

Florida International University

Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre

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.

Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder

Pavilion Theatre

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

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

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

Penn State School of Theatre

17 - 20 Dec, 2024

Special School of Theatre and Centre Stage Event: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

16 - 22 Nov, 2024

Special School of Theatre Production: Much Ado About Nothing

Penn State School of Theatre