Beauty as only skin deep? The ugliness comes out in “White,” which is being produced by the Langhorne Players in Northampton Township. Opening night is Friday, and this comedy of colors, with playwright James Ijames’ juicy jabs at hypocrisy and histrionics, runs to Aug. 4.
Summertime Sondheims? “Who knows who we will discover?” muses musical composer/lyricist Kate Brennan, who will join playwright/director David Lee White in “Making a Musical: New Theater Workshop for Teens,” a Bucks County Playhouse summer camp for kids running for two weeks beginning July 8 at Lambertville Hall in Lambertville.
Cameron Krauss, the 18-year-old recent Neshaminy High School graduate who competed in Monday's Jimmy Awards for high school theater stars, danced away with an Ensemble Award, one of a handful of honors accorded that night.
When you’re hot, you’re hot. And nobody was hotter than Sophie Tucker, the raucous risqué Red Hot Mama who torched the song charts in the early-mid 20th century.
All the fuss over Fosse can be measured in feet.
What are those noises off in the direction of the Bucks County Playhouse? Could be the applause for the zany zig-zagging of the newly staged “Noises Off!” playwright Michael Frayn’s 1982 farce of nature about a theater troupe that doesn’t know its exit left from its right.
The first significant reconstructive restoration in nearly four decades will begin this June at Bristol Riverside Theatre. Renovations of the historic building, located at 120 Radcliffe Street, …
Three wishes? Not necessary: the wish list has already been filled. After all, who could wish for a better Genie than Sabrina Profitt?
When Cady Heron shows up in an American high school she’s in for the education of a lifetime. Fresh from being home-schooled on an African savanna, the naive Heron lands utterly unprepared for a …
Long before Chiara Trentalange rocked a role in the Tony Award-winning “Girl From the North Country,” she was just a girl from the north county of Bucks who stepped onto the stage of the Bucks County Playhouse and bet, along with the other bite-sized moptop urchin co-stars, the sun would come out tomorrow.
They are bidding “willkommen” to a new cabaret space at the Bucks County Playhouse this weekend, a new musical hope honed by BCP producers’ stage-savvy sense of expanded theatrical service to …
Citing rising costs and the inability to obtain a liquor license, the Hopewell Theater is closing after a six-year run, executive director Sara Scully announced Tuesday night.
Judie Sapperstein brings out the gypsy in me. But I am not alone. She seems to have that magical theatrical stardust effect on actors, producers, directors and audiences — anyone in the aural space of her aura of spirited excitement spackled and sprinkled with expertise.
Accepting the keys to the former home of Oscar Hammerstein II in Doylestown Monday, Greg Roth was moved to quote the celebrated lyricist and humanitarian. “These will truly become my favorite things,” said the president of the board of directors of the Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center, echoing the ...
Dreaming of a white Christmas? Jeremiah James is jazzed living it. The Upper Black Eddy resident is feeling down home and comfy at Bucks County Playhouse.
The Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center will mark the official closing on the nonprofit’s purchase of Oscar Hammerstein II’s historic home and workplace with a …
Rifling through a magical gift box of merry Christmas movies, fans often point to Tinseltown’s “A Christmas Story” as hitting a bull’s eye among holiday choices. Since the funny fireplace …
Blackout scenes in theater don't usually involve the whole audience blacking out. But then, a play that concludes its sci-fi script by sending its audience off into a state of unconsciousness?
When it comes to erecting empires of erudition and entertainment, the artists and educators at the Newtown Arts Company and Newtown Theatre are newly proving to be masters of their domain.
Unlike Schindler's List, Sendler's list has not had the lustrous litany of recognition accorded a list of other Holocaust tales of horror and heroism: Irena Sendler's sentient response to the Nazi …