STATE COLLEGE — Like all theatre companies, whether high school, community, collegiate, summer stock or professional, FUSE Productions was required to pull the plug on its in-person shows since March. But Richard Biever, long-time producing artistic director, while bemoaning that FUSE had ...
Singer-songwriter Jesse Gotschal will play several of his genre-bending folk originals to open the free concert being presented by Vineyard Church Band instrumentalists and singers at 6 p.m., Friday, on the outdoor stage on the Central Avenue side of the Deane Center for the Performing Arts, ...
LOCK HAVEN — Although many events, both indoor and outdoor, have been canceled this year one staple of summer is continuing this Saturday. The 5th Annual LH JAMS music event will take place Aug. 15 beginning at 3 p.m. on Main Street. There will be quite a few changes but one thing will ...
LOCK HAVEN — While you enjoy a nice meal at one of downtown Lock Haven’s many restaurants or sit with friends in front of the Main Street Stage to take in great music, an artist may be capturing the moment. Two plein air painters, Susan Nicholas Gephart and Karl Eric Leitzel, will be ...
Can a 9-year-old girl really solve a crime? If the youngster is Hilde Lysiak, a self-proclaimed young journalist, formerly from the Selinsgrove area, the answer is decidedly yes. Her father Matthew Lysiak introduced me to his daughter Hilde at a bookstore in Lewisburg a couple of years ago, ...
It’s hard to fault a film that has its heart so squarely in the right place. I’m speaking of “The Cuban,” an enjoyable but fairly ridiculous indie from late last year. Now available for streaming, it’s the fictional story of aging Havana jazz legend Luis Garcia, whose nickname was ...
The Community Arts Center is continuing to find ways to stay involved with the community. Aside from general refurbishments to the building and stage; the center has been focusing on outreach, beginning with the option to rent a section of the marquee, according to a news release. “The ...
LEWISBURG — With the venue closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Campus Theatre staff is using the time to make some improvements and repairs to the 79-year-old downtown Lewisburg landmark. “We’re excited to be working on some improvements that will only serve to enhance your ...
The Community Arts Center recently announced it has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the Waldron Memorial Fund of the First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania, according to a news release. These funds will go toward the 2020-21 education series program at the center, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway seamstress Amy Micallef hasn’t put her talent on hold while theaters are shut. She’s been making plush toys — unusual plush toys. Micallef, who has worked in the wardrobe departments of “Hamilton,” “Waitress” and “Frozen,” makes gleeful ...
WELLSBORO — As part of the free Friday concert series, the Deane Center, 104 Main St., has planned two concerts with the bands Scott Turner and Friends and Stage Fright. Scott Turner and Friends will hold a free concert on the outdoor stage at 6 p.m. Friday, July 17. The group will play and ...
LEWISBURG — Despite the uncertainty whether large group gatherings will be allowed after Labor Day, many area theatres are planning on “reopening” with productions in September. But not the RiverStage Community Theater! Although the Lewisburg-based community theatre was forced to cancel ...
Several weeks ago, I reviewed a nifty little Amazon thriller called “Blow the Man Down,” calling it an “elliptical” movie — one that requires careful attention and filling in the blanks, because it rarely spells things out. The new straight-to-streaming indie “First Cow” has a ...
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms. Movies “The Old Guard”: The summer movie season may be non-existent this year, but Netflix had a pinch-hitter ready to stream: “The Old ...
WELLSBORO — When Hamilton-Gibson’s production of playwright John Cariani’s “Almost, Maine” opens this Friday, July 10, Terry Babb and Barbara Biddison will be on stage. “In our scene, we are outdoors in the middle of a northern Maine winter. It is a lovely, cold, clear moonless ...
Hamilton-Gibson will host a Sound Effects Workshop on Zoom from 1 to 3 p.m. July 19. The workshop will explore designing and performing special sound effects for audio dramas. Presenters are Sean Bartlett, who is creating and performing sound effects for this year’s Tune in to Radio HG ...
WELLSBORO — The Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St., has moved the six concerts originally scheduled indoors in the Coolidge Theatre to the outdoor stage, according to Kevin Connelly, executive director. The Gabe Stillman Band concert will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 10, ...
Dear Annie: The COVID-19 pandemic broke my relationship. I was with my guy for 14 years, and we live in different towns. When all this stuff started, we both agreed that we couldn’t see each other because his elderly mother lives with him. That was all fine. But then I asked him to please ...
WELLSBORO — This July, the 2020 Endless Mountain Virtual Music Festival is available online. Featured are video concerts recorded and submitted by guest musicians who were to perform this summer in Pennsylvania and New York during the live 17 concerts in 17 days event. All of the online ...
MILL HALL — Even though the most avid theatregoer may not have known it was gone, Millbrook Playhouse announced that the “Script Club is back!” As David Leidholdt, artistic director, has seen the 2020 summer season canceled because of COVID-19, Brandon Fillete’s one man show “Grand ...