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Next Up for Pennsylvania Centre Stage: ‘CTRL+ALT+DELETE’

June 23, 2010 at 3:57 pm Tina Hay Leave a comment

Now that I’ve seen Bob Clendenin ’90g perform in Wait Until Dark, I’m suddenly a lot more aware of Pennsylvania Centre Stage, which offers summer theatre in downtown State College.

PCS is an arm of the Penn State School of Theatre, and what’s interesting to me is that the performances typically have a nice mix of professional actors (many of them Penn State grads) and current Penn State students. And, if you go to enough theatre performances around campus in a given year, you start to see the same students in different roles and you get a head start on following their acting careers. Nathan James, for example, who was in Romeo & Juliet out on the alumni center lawn last fall, turned up as a policeman in Wait Until Dark. And Amir Abdullah, who also played in Romeo & Juliet, has a big role in the newest Pennsylvania Centre Stage production: CTRL+ALT+DELETE, which opens tonight.

Above are some scenes from the media preview of CTRL+ALT+DELETE, which is a relatively recent play set in the dot-com boom. Amir Abdullah (in the grey suit above) plays Eddie Fisker, a young entrepreneur with an idea, and Paul O’Brien (an Equity actor) plays Gus Belmont, the guy in suspenders above. Belmont is the man with the money to make Fisker’s idea happen. There are problems along the way, of course … but you’ll have to see the play to find out about them.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE is at the Downtown State College Theatre through July 3.

Tina Hay, editor

Entry filed under: College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State alumni. Tags: Amir Abdullah, Bob Clendenin, CTRL+ALT+DELETE, Nathan James, Paul O'Brien, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Wait Until Dark.