The State Theatre is a non-profit performing arts center dedicated to serving the Centre County region. It’s a mainstay of the State College community and a vibrant hub of local culture, featuring artists both homegrown and nationally renowned.

The Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra (PCO) is Central Pennsylvania’s all‑professional chamber orchestra. Since 1990, The PCO has performed both rare and well‑known music by the greatest composers from the Baroque period to the present day.

The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State is offering a hybrid season for this spring, allowing audiences to come together both in person and virtually for the high-quality musical and theatrical performances that the Center is known for. Most notably, this spring brings the return of touring Broadway productions, which were previously halted due to the pandemic.

Online event is first in center’s ‘Up Close and Virtual’ spring season

UNIVERSITY PARK (Monday, Jan. 24) — The next virtual episode of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Front Row: National” will feature “in-the-moment” pianist Gilbert Kalish.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa . – Starting this month, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State launches its 50th anniversary, to be celebrated throughout 2022 with special programs and exhibitions. To inaugurate its golden anniversary as a prominent university art museum is a major exhibition of outstanding American art, An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, which opens Jan. 29 as the centerpiece of the museum’s jubilee.

Visit the fabulous Columbus Chapel & Boal Mansion Museum, opened in 1953 and now open year‑round by reservation.

The Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County has created a vibrant community for the arts serving families, artists, and patrons while making a positive social and economic impact on Happy Valley.

After two years as a virtual event, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts returns to downtown State College and Penn State’s University Park campus from July 14-17, 2022. Children and Youth Day will be Wednesday, July 13.

The Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County and The Makery of State College are pleased to announce the opening of “The Makery at the Museum”, a dedicated, delightful children’s art studio on the second floor of the Bellefonte Art Museum.