Kristine Allen / WPSU-FM Producer

Penn State’s annual Celebration of African American Music Festival continues Friday and Saturday, February 3rd and 4th, on the University Park campus. WPSU’s Kristine Allen has the story of one very influential African American composer whose music will be played in-concert Friday Night.

A public viewing was held for Joe Paterno Tuesday in Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on Penn State’s University Park Campus. WPSU’s Kristine Allen has this report.

A South African composer/choreographer , Penn State student dancers, and PSU theatre professor Charles Dumas will collaborate Sunday night to present a story of racism and reconciliation. WPSU’s Kristine Allen reports on a new theatre piece with a powerful message.

Saturday afternoon, January 21st on radio and in select theatres, the Metropolitan Opera will present a new production that’s the first of its kind for the Met. WPSU’s Kristine Allen gets the inside story from the Met, through a Penn State connection.

On Martin Luther King Day, actor and playwright Barry Scott brings his one-man show about Dr. King to Penn State, University Park. Scott talks with WPSU’s Kristine Allen about the play, and about his own life-changing experience during the Civil Rights Era.

Richard Biever is a rofessional actor, singer, composer, teacher and long time State College resident. He’s also the new Executive Director of the State Theatre. He talks with WPSU’s Kristine Allen about the future of this community arts venue in downtown State College.

Choral music is big this time of year – choir concerts are a centuries-old holiday tradition. But, as WPSU’s Kristine Allen reports, there’s a concert Saturday, December 10th that ventures off-the-beaten-path: it’s definitely NOT your grandmother’s Christmas music!

A new play-in-verse premieres this week in State College. WPSU’s Kristine Allen spoke with local writer Mary Rohrer-Dann, who wrote a series of poems about an orphan girl who becomes a violin virtuoso. Those poems are now a play, adapted by director Cynthia Mazzant of Tempest Productions, a theatre company based in Bellefonte.

To celebrate Halloween, a brand new theater group takes to the stage in a very old historic building in Altoona. WPSU’s Kristine Allen reports on “Things Unseen”.