Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State

Emmet Cohen, our Monday night Facebook jazz guy, has released an album today. "Future Stride" is the gifted pianist's first major-label release. https://cutt.ly/1keo8Pu

His plays are among Pennsylvania's greatest gifts to American art and culture. And now his likeness is featured on a U.S. postage stamp. August Wilson, who died in 2005, was the author of "The Pittsburgh Cycle," ten plays about Black people in the western Pennsylvania city during the twentieth century.

Ole blue eyes was born #OTD 105 years ago.

When Larry King met Mahler ...

Cicely Tyson, the riveting actress of stage and screen, has passed away. #RIP

Long before she was dancing and singing her way to Broadway immortality, Sutton Foster was doing this. #fbf

January 28, 2020, seems like a long time ago. One year ago #OTD we presented the touring Broadway production of "Jersey Boys" at Eisenhower Auditorium. #TBT

So, so, so many nights.

The incomparable jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, who died earlier this year, was born in Philadelphia #OTD in 1938. We presented Tyner and his quartet mates at Schwab Auditorium in 2009. #fbf

According to The New York Times, one of the 5 best things to do this weekend is to check out Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's virtual season.