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‘SpongeBob’ director excited about ‘colorful and wildly inventive’ show coming in late July

The SpongeBob Musical, a Summer Stock production directed by Lycoming College Theatre professor Dr. C. Austin Hill, will explode onto the Community Arts Center stage July 29 through July 31 at 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. performance on July 31. “We are incredibly excited to be planning one of the very first productions of The SpongeBob Musical in this area — one of the first productions of the show anywhere, really,” Hill said, according to a news release. “On the heels of our production of Newsies in 2019, cancelling the Student Summer Stock in 2020 was difficult and sad for ...

‘Blue Miracle’ skillful in employing tried-and-true underdog tropes

There’s a reason studios keep cranking out sports-underdog films loosely based on a true story: It’s because they work. Go ahead and list some titles: “Cinderella Man,” “Invincible,” “Miracle,” “A Perfect Game,” “Glory Days,” “Invictus,” “Cool Runnings,” “A League of Their Own” — all terrific! To this auspicious list you can add the charming “Blue Miracle,” an unheralded little 2021 gem currently streaming on Netflix. The film is set at a Mexican orphanage in coastal Cabo San Lucas. Run by the financially strapped “Papa Omar” and his ...

Eric Clapton tribute show coming to Wellsboro stage

Bell Bottom Blues will present its high-energy “Live Eric Clapton Experience” show at 7 p.m., June 25, with both electric and acoustic sets in the Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St., Wellsboro. Pianist Bobby Whitlock endorsed this New Jersey-based ...

‘New Yorker’ cartoonist launches residencies

A new gem is popping up in Williamsport. Emily Flake, a cartoonist and writer for the New Yorker, is bringing about a new type of residency. The purpose of this establishment is to provide female creators with a space to work nonstop on writing projects, focusing specifically on humor related projects. Creators can produce anything such as stand-up routines, satire pieces, screenplays, comics and novels with a humor-based genre. Flake’s passion for being a writer and cartoonist stemmed from a very early age. Growing up, she was always drawing and writing, but when being an actress ...

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Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble reveals plans

BLOOMSBURG — The acclaimed professional theatre group returns to the friendly confines of the Alvina Krause Theatre for its 2021-22 season. After a year of a “forced intermission” caused by the COVID-19 virus, the downtown Bloomsburg theatre stage will again light up for the recently announced productions to be mounted by the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. After noting that the regional group ventured to a couple of outside venues recently, its’ Managing Director Jon White Spunner welcomes BTE patrons back inside the theatre, for the upcoming season’s attractions: ...