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Millbrook Playhouse to offer ‘Grand Legends’

MILL HALL — Millbrook Playhouse’s staff expects “Grand Legends” to be grand entertainment. Brandon Fillette, who wowed audiences a couple of summers ago as Jerry Lee Lewis in “Miillion Dollar Quartet” is back, playing music from the Grand Ole Opry to the Great White Way. Featuring the “sparkling talents of Brandon Fillette,” “Grand Legends” will be presented from July 30 to Aug. 7 on the upstairs Main Stage. Millbrook’s Producing Artistic Director David Leidholdt notes that “Grand Legends” sweeps the audience on an odyssey of Fillette’s favorite ...

Summer Music Festival arrives Saturday

The Uptown Music Collective is set to present its annual free Summer Music Festival starting at 1 p.m. Saturday at Williamsport’s Brandon Park Band Shell. According to a news release, the day’s festivities will include free music performances all day, as well as food vendors, raffles and ...

Community Arts Center plans season

Following the season when everything shut down, the Community Arts Center gears up for the upcoming season of shows taking place on the stage in downtown Williamsport. More shows also will be announced at later dates for the upcoming season, a news release from the center said. “We are ...

Music festival coming

At 7 p.m. Friday, the 15th Annual Endless Mountain Music Festival will open in Steadman Theatre on the Mansfield University campus in Mansfield. With Stephen Gunzenhauser conducting, the Festival Orchestra will perform ‘The Frog Prince.” narrators Catherine Robison-Ranney and Todd Ranney ...

Strong cast, quirky dialogue elevate ‘No Sudden Move’

If you want a new movie with a veteran filmmaker at the top of his game, you could not do better than “No Sudden Move.” That veteran would be Steven Soderbergh, who mastered the genre with “Out of Sight,” “Traffic” and the “Ocean’s” trilogy. Now streaming on HBO Max, “No Sudden Move” runs like a vintage Corvette, firing on absolutely every cylinder. Let’s start with the dynamite cast: Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Kieran Culkin, John Hamm, Noah Jupe and Brendan Fraser. There’s also a late-film surprise that isn’t listed in the ...

Producer of Muncy area TV show wins award

Singer, gardener, not (yet) a candlestick-maker, Jeff Pittinger recently added another feat to his laundry list of accomplishments: owner of an award-winning TV show. Nestled in the hills outside Muncy, “Pennsylvania Pipeline Music-TV” is based out of Pittinger’s converted garage. ...