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Art league to discuss, teach graffiti

The Bald Eagle Art League is beginning the 2021-22 monthly art workshops at 7 p.m., Sept. 2 at the Taber Museum, 858 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. Mickey Mapstone will explain and demonstrate the techniques of Graffiti, inspiring participants to create and leave with their own “TAG” design during this workshop. Mapstone is a retired art teacher of 27 years, and a practicing artist. She received her bachelor’s degree in art and her master’s degree in education at Mansfield University. Mapstone spent seven summers restoring the ‘Hiawatha Murals,” which are now hanging at ...

Drum corps to visit winery

Readers who miss hearing the sounds of drum and bugle corps in-person will not have to wait much longer — the Keystone Scouts will present Thunder on the Hill at Spyglass Ridge Winery Saturday. The corps will begin rehearsing at 1 p.m. and the show will start at 6 p.m. According to a news release, these corps were out of commission last year due to the pandemic, so they are anxious to put on a great show. The Drum and Bugle Corps in Exhibition are: Reading Buccaneers Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps, New York Skyliners Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps, Blessed Sacrament Alumni Drum and ...

Cast member excited about ‘hilarious’ play in Bloomsburg

Although he was born in Dalmatia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Line Mountain High School, Aaron White now calls Williamsport home. The multi- talented performer has designed sets, directed, choreographed and performed for many professional and community theatre groups in recent years. The 38-year-old White, who teaches theater at Susquehanna University, recently signed a one-year contract, making him a candidate for full membership with the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. White is also a member of the cast of BTE’s “Airness,” the hold-over attraction from last year’s ...

Auditions for Wellsboro women’s monologue series being scheduled

Open, in-person auditions for the Hamilton-Gibson Women’s Project are being held at 10 a.m. on Aug. 28, 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 30 and 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 in the Warehouse Theatre, 3 Central Ave., Wellsboro. No registration is required to audition. Interested readers can select an audition date and time and come to the Warehouse Theatre. The HGWP production “Woodpecker Lips,” inspired by the phrase “She’s tougher than Woodpecker Lips,” includes 13 original monologues. Some of them are dramatic with intense moments. Others are bolder and funnier or quiet and reflective. The ...

Wellsboro theater to host 5 radio plays

Five radio plays offering suspense, comedy, Western drama and a spoof of Dragnet and modern art are all part of the fun experience called Hamilton-Gibson’s Tune In To Radio HG Festival. The Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St., Wellsboro will be transformed into WBFR (Wellsboro’s Broadcast Free Radio) studios for performances at 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. this Sunday. The in-person audience will watch actors stand before microphones with scripts in hand, while live sound effects and music are combined to create a ...

Theater group bringing ‘Annie Jr.’ to stage

The Community Theatre League in downtown Williamsport will present a concert version of the children’s musical “Annie Jr.,” presented by the nationally recognized program The Penguin Project. “With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City,” a news release from Community Theatre League said. “Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan’s evil ...