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The worldwide sensation “Stomp” will be performed at Eisenhower Auditorium on Nov. 15.

UNIVERSITY PARK — “Stomp,” the international percussion sensation, returns to Penn State for an explosive stage production at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Eisenhower Auditorium.

From its beginnings as a street performance in the United Kingdom, “Stomp” has grown into an international sensation over the past 29 years, with performances in more than 50 countries and in front of more than 26 million people.

Tickets are $69 and $54 for an adult; $52 and $37 for those 18 and younger; and $35 and $30 per University Park student. They are available for purchase online. Tickets are also available by calling (814) 863-0255 or purchasing in person, weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Eisenhower Auditorium.

“Stomp” continues to tour North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. It was in performance for 15 years in London’s West End, 29 years at New York’s Orpheum Theatre and for lengthy productions in San Francisco, Boston and Las Vegas.

Throughout its run, the show has continued to change by creating new material to bring music to everyday objects. It is safe to say you will never again look at supermarket carts or plumbing fixtures the same way. Or paint cans, or kitchen sinks.

“Stomp” was created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas in 1991. The production has since become an overwhelming success marked by rave reviews, numerous awards and sell-out engagements. It is the winner of an Olivier Award for Best Choreography, a New York Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatre Experience and a Special Citation from Best Plays.

In addition to the stage shows, “Stomp” has been an overwhelming success marked by rave reviews, numerous awards, an Academy Award nomination, four Emmy nominations, and a Emmy Award for the acclaimed HBO special “Stomp Out Loud”; noteworthy TV appearances, including the London 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony, the 1996 Academy Awards (produced by Quincy Jones) and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”; and a series of award-winning international commercials.

The Center for the Performing Arts hosted performances of “Stomp” in 2000, 2004 and 2010, all at Eisenhower Auditorium.

The performers “make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound,” co-founder-director Cresswell said. A unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy, “Stomp” has created its own inimitable, contemporary form of rhythmic expression. Household and industrial objects find new life as musical instruments in the hands of an idiosyncratic band of body percussionists. It is a journey through sound, a celebration of the everyday and a comic interplay of characters wordlessly communicating through dance and drum.

Synchronized stiff-bristle brooms become a sweeping orchestra, eight Zippo lighters flip open and closed to create a fiery fugue; wooden poles thump and clack in a rhythmic explosion. “Stomp” uses everything but conventional percussion instruments — dustbins, suitcases, radiator hoses, boots, hub caps — to fill the stage with a compelling and unique act that is often imitated but never duplicated.

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After Biden was informed of a US drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of Islamic State on Saturday, he promised further attacks on ISIS-K, the group responsible for the bombings in Kabul.

In the Bay Area, more than 200 protesters gathered in the UN Plaza, focusing on peace.

The event began with the organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” also known as “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers including Mary Steiner, President of the United Nations Chapter of San Francisco, Nahid Aria, Dari- Translator and coordinator for Afghan operations with the Alameda District Attorney and Shahid Buttar, an attorney and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional District.

A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday, August 28, 2021. (Annelise Finney / KQED)

Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan on religious grounds many years ago because she was unable to practice Islam under the then rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday she came to protest for voiceless people in her former home. “I am here to speak out on behalf of all men and women. We are very dismayed by what is happening in Afghanistan right now,” she said.

Marena Habibi, an organizer of the rally, said the thousands of refugees now entering the Bay Area may not receive food aid, cash aid or shelter, and urged protesters to seek more support from their representatives in the government. Afghans arriving in the United States can qualify for the state and state levels using a variety of legal terminology, and refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and probation officers are all eligible for a variety of programs and services.

“President Biden, you did not end the war, you created global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world and need help now.”

Protest organizers said the US-led war had disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens have no choice but to flee their homes or to stay and risk death from these forces,” the organizers wrote in a statement.

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LONDON – Several major websites went offline briefly on Tuesday after an apparent outage at cloud service provider Fastly, and there were still reports of sporadic disruptions after the company fixed the problem about an hour later.

Dozens of websites, including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Reddit, the Guardian and the UK government website, were down.

Fastly of San Francisco confirmed a problem just before 1000 GMT. Repeated updates to its website stated that “the issue is still being investigated”.

About an hour later, the company said, “The problem has been identified and a solution has been applied. Customers may experience an increased origin load when global services return.”

A number of websites that were affected early appeared to be back online.

Some visitors trying to access CNN.com received a message that said, “Fastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com.” Attempts to access the Financial Times website returned a similar message during visits to the The New York Times website and the UK government website gov.uk returned the message “Error 503 Service Unavailable” along with the line “Varnish Cache Server”, which is a technology on which Fastly is built.

Down Detector, tracking internet outages, said, “Reports suggest that Fastly may be experiencing a widespread outage that can affect your service.”

Fastly describes itself as an “edge cloud platform”. so users can get them faster and smoother instead of having to access the site’s original server.

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