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Community Arts Center to get grant

The Community Arts Center has been awarded a $2,500 grant from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. According to a news release, the funds will be used to underwrite the Student Summer Stock production of SpongeBob the Musical. Each summer, the Student Summer Stock program offers 7th through 12th grade students in the regional area the opportunity to participate in the production of a Broadway-type musical onstage at the Community Arts Center in the historic Martin Theatre. Working with both Lycoming College and the Pennsylvania College of Technology, the CAC and local theatre ...

Student earns scholarship

The Williamsport Music Club has chosen violinist Michael Fisher, son of Kristin and Don Fisher as winner of the $1500 Budd Memorial Scholarship. A panel of three judges who listened to the auditions were Dr. Christopher Para, Dr. David Lassiter and Dr. Kenneth Sarch. Michael is a senior at Williamsport High School and has played violin since he was four years old. His first lessons were Suzuki with Pat Thayer as his teacher and in 2014 he began his study with James P. Lyon of Penn State University. He is deciding his future between the Juilliard School or New England Conservatory of ...

‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’ starts strong, becomes outlandish

After attention-grabbing performances on TV’s “Sons of Anarchy” and “Veronica Mars,” Taylor Sheridan made a persuasive move to writing and direction, notching Oscar nods for his scripts on “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water,” then handily assuming both tasks for his 2017 masterpiece “Wind River.” Having thereupon dubbed him “the go-to man for intelligent, lifelike, explosively exciting cinema,” I was naturally eager for Sheridan’s hot-looking new thriller, “Those Who Wish Me Dead.” But while this is a competent and absorbing actioner, it doesn’t quite ...

Loyalsock Township sophomore wins major award

Bassist Gabriel Severn, a Loyalsock Township High School sophomore, has been named the 2021 DownBeat High School Honors Jazz Soloist Winner. Severn has previously received DownBeat awards for performance, improvisation and composition. According to a news release, these international awards ...

League’s play ‘Calendar Girls’ continues at downtown venue

The Community Theatre League is excited to present the heartfelt comedy “Calendar Girls” at 7:30 p.m. on May 13 and May 15 and at 2 p.m. on May 16 at their home in downtown Williamsport. According to a news release, CTL is operating under guidelines set by the CDC and state Department of Health. At under 75% capacity, the Community Theatre League will have a limited number of tickets on sale for each performance, encouraging social distancing, requiring masks to be worn by audiences, staff, and actors, taking temperatures at the door and encouraging patrons to use the sanitizing ...

LOCK HAVEN — After a year of cancellations and closure, The Station Gallery, 2 E. Bald Eagle St., will be opening its first exhibit with a reception on Friday at 6 p.m. “Join us for the opening reception on this coming May 14, Friday night, from 6 to 9 p.m.,” Carol Cillo, Clinton County Arts Council president, said. The gallery has opened its doors for the BIRDS, an invitational exhibit featuring a variety of mediums and 14 artists. The artists, many local, include: Ron Beach, Kraig Brady, Fred Bucheit, Kasey Campbell, Carol Ann Simon Cillo, Steve Getz, Lynn Kibbe, Karl ...