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2 free plays this weekend via Zoom

At 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Hamilton-Gibson Productions last free staged reading will be performances of two comedies. “Mrs. Sorken” is by Christopher Durang, an American playwright. This monologue is presented by a middle-aged woman who attempts to share her somewhat limited knowledge but qualified passion for live theatre. “Boise, Idaho” is a 30-minute play by Sean Michael Welch, a native of Michigan who is an award-winning playwright and novelist. In it, the narrator dutifully chronicles the meeting of a couple in a small cafe in Paris, France, only to start ...

Loyalsock Township grad advances on ‘American Idol’

Brennan Hepler, known as Beane, a Loyalsock Township High School alumnus, has successfully made it through the first part of the Hollywood Week round on American Idol this week. He performed a duet, singing “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles and then a solo in the Genre Challenge, which ...

Uptown Music Collective to present tribute to Led Zeppelin

The Uptown Music Collective is set to return to the Community Arts Center stage to present Good Times Bad Times: The Music of Led Zeppelin for three live performances on April 16 and 17. “This high-energy tribute from the area’s premier school of music will feature talented young ...

Concert group reveals merger with city college

Lycoming College recently announced “an exciting enhancement to its music program” through a merger with the Williamsport Community Concert Association, a news release said. Through this new relationship with Lycoming College, the legacy of the WCCA will be sustained and the concerts ...

Theater group to read poetry this weekend

Hamilton-Gibson’s performances of “Blessings from the Pandemic” are at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, and 2:30 p.m., Sunday, with the entire cast reading the first and last poems, “A Prayer for Now” and “A Prayer in Honor of the Angels,” Each actor will also read three poems apiece. “When we first discovered author Rich Orloff’s ‘Blessings From the Pandemic’, I was hesitant to present it,” said Hamilton-Gibson Director Thomas Putnam, according to a news release. “I knew it was a poetry cycle of 60 poems but wasn’t sure they would fit in with our zoomed staged reading ...

Billtown Blues Association touts 2021 festival’s lineup

The Billtown Blues Association recently announced plans for its 2nd year of the expanded three-day music festival, planned for June 11, 12 and 13, at the Lycoming County Fairgrounds in Hughesville. Seventeen bands are on board to deliver their individual style and interpretation covering ...