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Updated May 18, 2012 21:39
by JANE HOLAHAN
A winner has been announced in the Fulton's second Discovery Project new play contest.

It's "The Baby Game" by Michele Aldin Kushner.

According to Kushner's website, the play is about two couples — one straight, one gay — who are promised the same baby by a young birth mother, who ...
Updated May 17, 2012 16:50
by TOM KNAPP
"Where's Charley?" is a musical treasure lost in time.

Sure, its elder sibling, the 120-year-old play "Charley's Aunt," has remained in the public consciousness.

But "Where's Charley?" -- although immensely popular following its Broadway debut in 1948 -- has fallen between the cracks.

"Very...
May 13, 2012 00:06
by MARTY CRISP

Annie Oakley (1860-1926) was an icon of the Old West. Of course, she was born, grew up and is buried in western Ohio. Her real life as a sharpshooter nonpareil has been shaped and re-shaped for movies, TV and a 1946 Irving Berlin musical as iconic as Annie herself.
The rootin'-tootin' "Annie Get Y...
Updated May 11, 2012 09:50
by MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
A drawling, red-headed country bumpkin has helped create a family out of a group of local high school students.

And those students are eager to share that bumpkin's adventures with lots of other families next week on the McCaskey East High School stage.

The carrot-topped rube in question is To...
Updated May 10, 2012 16:55
by JANE HOLAHAN
Forty-eight children and teens will be in the "Disney's The Jungle Book KIDS" production at the Susquehanna Stage Co. this weekend.

The are playing monkeys, panthers, tigers, snakes, wolves, bears, and plenty of other jungle creatures and even jungle plant life.

The show is based on the 1967 D...
Updated May 08, 2012 15:12
by JANE HOLAHAN
THEATER REVIEW

"Annie Get Your Gun," which opened at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre last week, is the story of the romance between Annie Oakley and Frank Butler, a sharpshooter who was a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the late 19th century.

Well, that was until Annie came out of the back...
May 04, 2012 22:14
by MARICHELLE ROQUE-LUTZ
OPERA REVIEW

Manami Hattori-Fallen is the quintessential Butterfly, delicate as the strokes in a Japanese painting.

In OperaLancaster's opening night presentation at Franklin & Marshall College's Roschel Performing Arts Center of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," she looked and moved e...
May 04, 2012 22:05
by JANE HOLAHAN
"To Cross an Ocean Four Centuries Long," started small.

When it was performed in September at the YWCA, only an actor and a percussionist were on stage, telling the story of four African-American women (three historical, one fictional) and who they were beyond their enslavement.

But when the s...
May 03, 2012 23:55
by JANE HOLAHAN
The 120 members of Hempfield High School's Dance Theatre have a wide variety of abilities.

Some are highly trained dancers, some are terrific athletes and some have never set foot in a dance studio.

But they all have one thing in common: A strong dedication and willingness to work hard for Hem...
Updated May 08, 2012 15:17
by JON FERGUSON
Blues guitarist Tinsley Ellis considers it fortunate that he launched his career in the same decade that Stevie Ray Vaughan rose to prominence.

Ellis, an Atlanta native who will perform with his band Friday at Ephrata Main Theatre, views Vaughan as that rare blues player who galvanized rock fans ...
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