To help announce the summer season, the Pennsylvania Centre Stage enlisted some heavenly assistance.

During a press conference Friday afternoon, nuns handed out black and white Pennsylvania Centre Stage 1991 pins. The sisters are actually actresses who will perform in "Nunsense" during the summer season.

Pennsylvania Centre Stage, a regional professional theater located on campus, will begin its sixth season on June 19 and run through Aug. 3.

Carole Brandt, artistic director of Pennsylvania Centre Stage and head of the theater department, announced that three shows -- "Driving Miss Daisy," "Nunsense," and "Orphans" -- will run this summer.

She said that none have been performed in central Pennsylvania.

"Driving Miss Daisy," a 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for Best Play, is based on the playwright, Alfred Uhry's own grandmother and her chauffeur.

The play, which will run from June 19 to July 6, is directed by associate professor Cary Libkin. Libkin recently directed the University Resident Theatre Company's performance, "Pirates of Penzance."

"Nunsense," winner of four 1986 Outer Critic's Circle Awards, features the nuns of Mount Saint Helen's School trying to raise money to bury their sisters who died from poisoned vichyssoise.

The performance, which will run from July 3 to July 20, will be directed by Brandt.

Two brothers surviving on their own is the theme of "Orphans." The introduction of Harold, a father figure, changes the lives of the boys forever.

The show, which will run from July 17 to Aug. 3, will be directed by Robert E. Leonard.