Penn State English professor Michael Bérubé, editor of a new edition of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein, talks about his unusual perspective on the familiar tale, the novel’s impact on popular understandings of science, and why the story of a human-made monster is still relevant more than 200 years later.
An ambitious and unconventional opera a decade in the making, A Marvelous Order has its world premiere this month at University Park. Though it’s a New York story through and through, Penn State’s Center for the Performing Arts played a vital role in finally bringing it to life.
Dena Tauriello spent 20 years touring the world in the all-female rock band Antigone Rising. The New Jersey native stays closer to home in her latest gig: playing drums in the Broadway production of Hamilton.
A highlight of the fourth annual Centre Film Festival, kicking off next week in State College and Philipsburg, Pa., is the return to Happy Valley of Stan Lathan, who will be honored for a visionary 50-year career as a director, producer, and Hollywood trailblazer.
A conversation with Penn State political science professor Christopher Beem, whose new book, The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy, assesses the risks to American democracy and offers a practical guide for the sort of citizenship that can help sustain it.
