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The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) and Penn State University announce a unique collaboration between an Off-Broadway theatre and a university training program. Penn State at The York will present two new works fresh from their spring premieres at PSU: the musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon and the play The Aperture by Sean Christopher Lewis. This pair of one acts will have three performances only:

• Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 2 pm and 8 pm
• Sunday, April 6th at 3 pm.

Tickets are $25 for the general public, $10 for students.

Conceived by Raymond Sage, Artistic Director of the Penn State New Musical Theatre Festival, Dr. Susan Russell, Artistic Director of Penn State’s Cultural Conversations New Play Festival, and James Morgan and Brian Blythe of the York Theatre, Penn State at The York bridges the traditional gap between theatrical education and professional practice. Penn State’s two festivals of new works, Cultural Conversations and The PSU New Musicals Festival, offer PSU theatre students the opportunity to work with professional writers, composers, and lyricists, and this opportunity will continue to unfold as Penn State at The York presents two festival productions on the stage of one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway theatres.

Ordinary Days is an original musical about growing up and enjoying the view, told through a series of intricately connected songs and vignettes. When Deb loses her most precious possession--the notes to her graduate thesis--she unwittingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of four New Yorkers into something extraordinary. Warren, a struggling but optimistic artist, finds Deb’s notebook, and leads her on a wild goose chase, convinced that she is someone he’s been destined to meet. Meanwhile, Jason struggles to build a future with his girlfriend Claire, but the growing rift between them is held open by ghosts from Claire’s past. As the threads of these stories intertwine, Deb and Warren’s unlikely friendship transforms the city—and themselves—in the most unexpected ways, Jason finds answers falling from the sky, and Claire finally sees through her haunted past into a hopeful future.

The Aperture, by Sean Christopher Lewis, details the story of a child soldier in Uganda who is made to pose for pictures as such once he escapes to America. The result is a new war on U.S. soil, which is fought on many cultural battlefields.

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