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At the Palmer"Capturing the Light: A Selection of 20th-Century American Watercolors" by Winslow Homer, is on display at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus through May 18.
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The HUB's Art alley exhibits an "International Festival" through April 6.
An annual event sponsored by the Office of International Programs, the exhibit features the art from many countries and cultures. Penn State international students share their native art with the community and the exhibit accompanies the International Festival, which runs through Feb. 27 on the University Park campus.
The Penn State University Resident Theatre Company will present Lorraine Hansberry's highly acclaimed drama, A Raisin In The Sun, on the University Park campus. The play will open in the Playhouse Theatre on Friday, Feb. 21, and will run through Saturday, March 1, with student previews on Wednesday, Feb. 19, and Thursday, Feb. 20.
The play features Frances Foster as Mama. Foster, a member of the original Broadway production, received the 1985 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.
A Raisin In The Sun is directed by Charles Dumas, associate professor of theatre arts.
For tickets, call the Arts Ticket Center at (814) 863-0255. For the evening performances, tickets are $10, non-students; $8 students. For matinees: $9 non-students; $7 students. Tickets for the student previews, with ID, are $6.
The Penn State Thespians will present "Schoolhouse Rock, Live!" in Kern Graduate Commons Auditorium at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, and Friday, Feb. 21; and again Saturday, Feb 22, at 2 and 8 p.m. on the University Park campus. All tickets are $4.75 and may be purchased through the thespian box office across from the HUB desk or at the door.
"Schoolhouse Rock Live!" is the stage adaptation of the Saturday morning TV show that aired between 1973 and 1985. For more information or to reserve tickets, call (814) 865-9461.
On Saturday Feb. 22, at 8 p.m., the Center for the Performing Arts will present the 95-member National Traditional Orchestra of China at Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus.
In its first American tour, the orchestra brings together Beijing's foremost exponents of traditional music.
Tickets are available through the Arts Ticket Center in Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets also may be purchased by phoning, (814) 863-0255.
Ten students from the organ studio of June Miller, associate professor of music, will perform in a free 2 p.m. recital on Sunday, Feb. 23, in the College of Art and Architecture's School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
Michael C. Rider, tenor, and Matthew Doebler, pianist, will present a free recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, in room 122 of Music Building II on the University Park campus. Rider is a student of Susan Boardman, associate professor of music, and Doebler is a student of Marylene Dosse, professor of music.
"CATS," one of the most successful musicals in all of Broadway history, will see its road company return to the Community Arts Center stage in Williamsport for three performances this month. Evening performances are set for Tuesday, Feb. 25, and Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m., and a special Wednesday matinee at 2 p.m. The center is part of the Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Tickets are priced between $27.50 and $45.50. For more information, please call (717) 326-2424.
The Hi-Lo's from the Penn State Glee Club, directed by Bruce Trinkley, associate professor of music, will perform at the free Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park campus. The 20-minute concert is part of the Bach's Lunch series sponsored by the College of Arts and Architecture and the University Lutheran Parish.
Audience members may take a bag lunch to eat after the concert in the Roy and Agnes Wilkinson Lounge. Coffee and tea will be provided.
The Penn State Philharmonic, under the direction of Pu-Qi Jiang, will feature the winners of the student competition at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus.
The winners include Louis Hodgson, flute; Matthew Shaw, baritone; Seong-Ae Lim, piano; and Fouad Fakhouri, composition. During the performance, Fakhouri's winning composition "Beneath the Rubble" will be given its world premiere. Gregory Woodbridge, a master's student of Jiang, will be a guest conductor.
Tickets for the performance are $4 for non-students, $2 for students, and are available at the Arts Ticket Center.
The School of Visual Arts Undergraduate Juried Exhibition opens today in the Zoller Gallery in the Visual Arts Building on the University Park campus.
Gerald Haggerty, an art critic and educator working and residing in New York City, is the juror for this year's exhibition. The Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is an annual event, showcasing the best of undergraduate work in visual arts.
The free exhibition continues through March 23.
"Appalachian Year," a collection of paintings by an award-winning artist who is a native of South America, will be on exhibit in the Gallery Lounge at the Penn State Harrisburg campus of the Capital College through March 24.
L. Beatriz Arnillas, who earned a master's of fine arts degree from the University of Kentucky, incorporates art work from three consecutive periods of her life for this show. Arnillas was born and raised in Peru, where her family resided until 1986 when they emigrated to the United States. Her work represents her feelings and experiences from life in both Peru and the United States.
Susan Harris of the Department of English discusses her newest book, The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain, on the next episode of Odyssey through Literature. Harris has a unique way of using people's diaries, letters and the books they read to interpret the world they lived in. She and series host S. Leonard Rubinstein devote a portion of their discussion to comparing Olivia Langdon's and Mark Twain's very different views on Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
Odyssey Through Literature is produced as a continuing education service of the Department of Comparative Literature. It airs Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on WPSU, 91.5 FM, from University Park, 106.7 FM in Altoona and on WPSB, 90.1 in northern Pennsylvania. The complete semester's schedule can be found on the World Wide Web at http://mickey.la.psu.edu/complit/odyssey/odyssey.htm.
"What is Diversity?," a three-part exhibit on display in the East Corridor Gallery of Pattee Library until the end of spring semester, includes profiles of University Libraries employees and features items in four of the Libraries' collections. Also showcased are the services provided by the Libraries to connect patrons with the information they seek.
The exhibit was designed by cataloging assistant Jeff Edmunds in collaboration with the Libraries' Diversity Committee and with assistance from faculty and staff in Microforms, the Education Library, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, the Rare Books Room, Libraries Services for People with Disabilities, Interlibrary Loan, the Arts Library, Maps, Facilities Planning and Maintenance, Preservation, and Public Information and Relations. In addition, a World Wide Web version of the exhibit designed by Wilson Hutton is available at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/pubinfo/div/exhibit.html.
