From Swan Lake to Swifities (and Olivia), State Theatre announces time-spanning shows

EASTON, Pa. — Easton's State Theatre is looking to give audiences some of the best of musical history and some of the best of today.

Swan Lake, written 150 years ago by Russian composer Tchaikovsky and one of the most popular ballets of all time, will return to the theater at 2 p.m. Oct. 26.

And Let’s Sing Taylor — A Live Band Experience Celebrating Taylor Swift, which calls itself “the ultimate tribute to the music of Taylor Swift,” will perform at the center at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20.

And it will include a tribute to an even more recent hitmaker — Olivia Rodrigo.

Tickets at $50-$90 for Swan Lake go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 15.

Tickets at $32.75-$39.75 for Let's Sing Taylor go on sale at 10 a.m. April 16.

Both will be available at the State Theatre website or at the venue box office at 453 Northampton St., Easton.

Swan Lake will be offered by outside promoter Classical Arts Entertainment and features newly designed costumes and sets with more than 200 custom-designed scenery pieces, according to a release.

It will be performed by ballet stars from Georgia, Great Britain, Ukraine, Italy, France, Armenia, Japan, Moldova, and Kazakhstan, the release says.

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A Swift history — and Olivia

Let’s Sing Taylor — A Live Band Experience Celebrating Taylor Swift asks Taylor Swift fans — known as Swifties — to come to the show dressed in Taylor attire and “to sing your hearts out” during it.

“We can show you incredible things,” a news release for the show says, using lyrics from Swift's hit song "Blank Space."

“Including the most faithful and lively covers of Queen Taylor’s expansive and sacred catalog.”

Swift, of course, is a Berks County native who started her career playing in the Lehigh Valley area often: Allentown Fair, Crocodile Rock Cafe, Santander Performing Arts Center and Pat Garrett Amphitheater.

She since has released 24 albums and EPs that have sold a collective 60 million copies and produced more than 50 Top 20 hits — 11 of which hit No. 1.

Her chart-toppers include "Look What You Made Me Do, "Bad Blood," "Blank Space," "Shake It Off" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."

The State Theatre show will kick off with Let's Sing Taylor performing favorite Rodrigo hits.

Rodrigo rose to prominence for her roles as a guitarist in the Disney Channel series "Bizaardvark" and the Disney TV series "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series."

Since 2021, she has released two albums, "Sour" — who sold four times platinum — and "Guts" that both topped the albums chart.

She has had six Top 10 hit singles, three of which — "Driver's License," "Good for You" and "Vampire" — hit No. 1, making her a challenger for Swift's most-popular-female singer status.

Let's Sing Taylor performed last June at Quakertown's Univest Performance Center.