The British are coming! The British are coming! Specifically, the British beat rock band Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone are coming. The band, which became massively popular in the mid-1960s during the height of the cultural phenomenon known as the British Rock Invasion with hits like ...
The music of Leonard Bernstein will be presented at Lycoming College’s Mary L. Welch Honors Hall at 4 p.m. Sunday, as a part of the Close-Up Concert series. Bernstein’s 100th birthday is being celebrated in concert halls, theaters, and opera houses around the world—most ...
The Williamsport Civic Chorus will celebrate its 75th year with its first concert of the season, “Journeys: Within and Beyond,” at 3 p.m. Nov.18 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 142 Market Street. “Journeys: Within and Beyond” explores the paths that we all take throughout our ...
When you combine the genius of Dr. Seuss and animator Chuck Jones with vocalists Boris Karloff and Thurl Ravenscroft, you get 1966’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”—a classic that has stood the test of time as well as any other Christmas staple you can name. So … did the world ...
Part action-war film. Part zombie-thriller. All gory goodness. The blend of the familiar into the not-so-familiar is all packed into the shockingly-entertaining “Overlord.” This prideful B-movie embraces its cheesiness without remorse, making for a fun-time from the opening title, all the ...
STRASBURG—You don’t have to be a Biblical scholar to be thoroughly entertained by a Sight & Sound show. On a busy highway just outside Strasburg in Lancaster County sits the imposing, 2,000-seat Sight & Sound Theater where live productions draw over 800,000 patrons annually. My ...
Local 14-year-old electric bass player Gabriel Severn will debut his DownBeat Award-winning “Song for Fina” tomorrow. Gabriel’s love of Brazilian bossa nova and samba inspired him to write “Song for Fina,” which he dedicated to a close family friend for her birthday. On this ...
For its second show of the season, the Williamsport Community Concert Association is bringing the fiery guitar sounds of Latin world fusion band Incendio to the stage of the Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth Street, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8. The Billboard-charting instrumental group will be ...
Dr. Daniel J. Hall is now in his second year as conductor of the Williamsport Chamber Choir and Orchestra, which provides opportunities for outstanding area singers, up-and-coming composers, and talented musicians to perform great choral literature in a professional setting. Hall resides in ...
At 6:30 p.m. tomorrow the St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church, 326 Washington Blvd, will host its Feast of All Souls Mass featuring a performance of Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem” by members of the St. Boniface and Lycoming College Choirs, area singers and members of the Williamsport Symphony ...
The Bald Eagle Art League will again hold the “Best of BEAL Art Competition” at the Thomas T. Taber Museum, across from Ways Garden, 858 West Fourth Street. An opening reception will be held today from 5 to 8 p.m., and the exhibition will run through Nov. 28. The Bald Eagle Art League has ...
Tupac Shakur’s famous acronym “T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E” has found a way into modern cinema. It is rare for a message to be delivered so loudly that the rest of the film does not get lost in translation. “The Hate U Give” is a compellingly honest drama that highlights the racial strife that ...
According to the opening credits, about a dozen different companies helped finance “The Sisters Brothers.” It’s amazing one or two of them couldn’t see what a boring, unbankable dud they had on their hands. Rarely has so much talent and money been wasted on something so ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Two sales of the same simple bungalow in “Clybourne Park” turns the Chicago neighborhood into a battleground on race relations. After a preview one week from tonight, Penn State Centre Stage’s production of “Clybourne Park” opens with 7:30 p.m. performances on ...
I had to opportunity to tour Canada again this summer with my band The Echo & Sway. As part of our time in London, we had this neat little pre-show gig at Groove Records. While we only played to a few, and were doing this gig as a bit of promo, we weren’t paid, but boy we hit the jackpot ...
“Johnny English Strikes Again” is silly, predictable, occasionally lazy and not very clever — but I liked it anyway. This new film is the third in a series that began with 2003’s modestly entertaining “Johnny English” — followed eight years later by the uproarious “Johnny ...
SUNBURY — The Valley Players are blending dramatic twists and turns with black comedy overtones in their latest offering. Following last weekend’s opening, The Valley Players again present “Cliffhanger” tomorrow and Saturday at the Packer House, 24 North Third St., as a dinner-theatre ...
Violinist Gale Szczepkowski, a brilliant 13-year-old violinist from Elysburg will present a recital at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 in Honors Hall at Lycoming College collaborating with the Russian pianist, Svetlana Rodionova in a program of music by Mozart, Bach, Corigliano and Paganini. The concert is ...
At 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16-17 the students of the Uptown Music Collective will celebrate the school’s 30th Major Performance, by paying tribute to the big hair, big voices, and really big guitars of the style known as “Anthem Rock,” “Dad Rock,” “Corporate Rock” or most commonly “Arena ...
Though the event is still seven months away, area high school theater students are already thinking about walking down the Ray of Light Awards’ red carpet. Honoring excellence in high school theatre, the Community Theatre League’s annual Ray of Light ceremony is scheduled for May 25, ...