The State Theatre Blog

This is a blog dedicated to keeping you updated on all that is The State Theatre of downtown State College, PA. On this blog you will find info on the concerts, films, and other special events that are upcoming at The State. This site will be focused on bringing more info on the events than you can normally find at The State's regular homepage. We will be posting videos, reviews, and more overall info than you can find anywhere else.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

The State to Host 'Independence' a Play Writen by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Lee Blessing --STARTS FRIDAY 3/27--

This Friday the play Independence by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Lee Blessing starts its short run at The State. The play will be preformed in the intimate Studio Space upstairs at The State! Below you will find some info on the play:

Independence, Iowa. A town that’s hard to stay in, but even harder to leave behind.

What could be more familiar than a family gathering in a small town -- a mother and her three grown daughters? “It’s so nice to have you all here….let’s bake cookies!” But Pulitzer Prize-winner Lee Blessing has the great writer’s gift -- he finds the universal in the particular, the surprising in the familiar.

So the cookies never get baked. Because the four are caught in the inevitable struggle to grow up, to hold on, to break loose, to finally own up to who’s responsible for what.

The play compassionately and wittily explores “the complex and entangled relationship between mother and daughters”— and the men who are conspicuous by their absence.

“Vivid, realistic, tender, often humorous”, and painful as truth.


Independence by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Lee Blessing debuts at The State Friday 3/27 at 8:00 PM. The show continues with shows on Saturday 3/28 at 2:00 & 8:00 PM, Sunday 3/29 at 2:00 PM, Friday 4/3 at 8:00 PM, Saturday 4/4 at 2:00 & 8:00 PM, and Sunday 4/5 at 2:00 PM. Tickets are going for $12 for students & seniors and $14 for everyone else. Tickets are available for purchase both ONLINE and at The State Theatre Box Office. See you there for an intimate performance at The State!
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  1. AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 5:53 AM

    I think they deserve to get the Pulitzer awards. I really like this review “Vivid, realistic, tender, often humorous”, and painful as truth. :) I think it's sum it all.. Anyway nice blog.. if you have time, take a visit at my Free Games website.

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