Central Pennsylvania Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 29

BWW Review: OLD TIME RADIO GOSPEL HOUR Swings Servant Stage Company
by Marakay Rogers - June 05, 2016

Bluegrass, barbershop, hymns, children's songs -- they're all here, and all 'live on radio' in front of you. Prepare for foot-tapping fun....

BWW Review: OrangeMite Studios Is Doing the Best Shakespeare You Haven't Seen
by Marakay Rogers - May 28, 2016

Artistic director William Wolfgang runs an ambitious schedule for a community theatre: all Shakespeare, all the time. Area theatre veterans pitch in with high school students to make a barn in Dover the most happening place in the region....

BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Has a Whole Lotta Music Going at Dutch Apple
by Marakay Rogers - May 17, 2016

Rockabilly, country, and blues fans, rejoice. Elvis fans, look sharp. The greatest recording event in history is happening at Dutch Apple through June 19, and you can be there....

BWW Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a Catch at Rainbow
by Marakay Rogers - May 11, 2016

The show that gave birth to bumbling detectives in ternchcoats is alive, well, and on stage at Rainbow's Comedy Playhouse. Catch it if you can....

BWW Review: Gritty, Solid CUCKOO'S NEST at York Little Theatre
by Marakay Rogers - May 07, 2016

It's not a pretty show but it's one of the most compelling in theatre, and solid direction and casting make it a thought-provoking drama. York Little Theatre does it right....

BWW Review: EPAC Delivers a Classic HELLO, DOLLY!
by Marakay Rogers - May 05, 2016

You know it. You love it. You want to sing along to it. Hello, boys, Dolly's back....

BWW Review: Oyster Mill I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE Boasts Strong Cast
by Marakay Rogers - April 30, 2016

The Off-Broadway sketch comedy musical about relationships is back, and Oyster Mill's got it....

BWW Review: MAD MEN Meets DALLAS in THE OLD FRIENDS at Open Stage
by Marakay Rogers - April 29, 2016

Suburban Texas in the Swinging Sixties. It isn't all fun and games -- sometimes it's positively chaos. Get your cocktail duds on and prepare for anything,...

BWW Review: Hershey Theatre RAGTIME is All Too Timely
by Marakay Rogers - April 28, 2016

The rich versus the working class. Immigrant crises. Police clashing with rioting African-Americans. Women discovering their independence. Celebrities in your face. Is it 2016 or 1916, and how do you know?...

BWW Review: The New 'Chamber Musical' of GHOST is Nearly Awesome
by Marakay Rogers - April 24, 2016

One of the most loved films in history produced one of the most panned musicals around. The new, smaller version of the show is closer to the film and far easier to watch - and actually is worth watching...

BWW Review: MY ELECTRIC LIFE Illuminates Theater of the Seventh Sister
by Marakay Rogers - April 16, 2016

Local playwright Paul Hood puts internet addiction to the therapist's couch in this tale of three people who can't turn off the power switch....

BWW Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Little Theatre of Hanover
by Marakay Rogers - April 16, 2016

The bloodthirstiest monster since Dracula is in a florist's shop on Skid Row, and it's in Hanover right now. Can the planet be saved?...

BWW Review: Go THE FULL MONTY at Carlisle Theatre Company
by Marakay Rogers - April 16, 2016

Artistic director Dustin LeBlanc takes to the stage to lead the story of six unemployed steelworkers with a joint dream and more family and economic problems than can be imagined....

BWW Review: NANA'S NAUGHTY KNICKERS Is Back Home at Rainbow
by Marakay Rogers - March 25, 2016

Katy DiSavino's first play, one of the funniest around, is back where it was first staged, at the DiSavinos' home base, Rainbow's Comedy Playhouse. Prepare to be entertained....

BWW Review: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at The Fulton - The Truth Is, You'll Laugh
by Marakay Rogers - March 21, 2016

The touching love story of a boy and his cow, with a Mysterious Man, a Giant, Ogra the Giant's wife, and more jokes than legally allowed. The fun? You can't handle the fun....

BWW Review: THE HEIRESS Inherits the EPAC Stage
by Marakay Rogers - March 21, 2016

A classic Henry James novel became a classic Broadway drama, now on stage at EPAC....

BWW Review: HSC's THE SEAGULL Soars At Gamut
by Marakay Rogers - March 20, 2016

Director Thomas Weaver takes the audience through a winding story of Russian angst that's in many ways as contemporary as modern reality television....

BWW Review: THE IRISH... AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY... at Seventh Sister
by Marakay Rogers - March 19, 2016

Singing! Dancing! Playing the washboard! Joy, mirth, and the Great Potato Famine mingle with the Civil War and coal strikes in Frank McCourt's classic revue...

BWW Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Brings Laughs to Oyster Mill
by Marakay Rogers - March 17, 2016

The play that made James Corden an American commodity is at Oyster Mill to prove to you whether it's just as funny as you heard it was -- and chances are, it is....

BWW Review: Epic and Bold SAMSON Premieres at Sight & Sound Theatres
by Jennifer Perry - March 15, 2016

I would rack SAMSON up as another strong outing for Sight & Sound Theatres....

BWW Review: EMBRACEABLE YOU Brings Gershwin Revival to Servant Stage Company
by Marakay Rogers - March 11, 2016

Director Daniel Stargel, music director Andy Roberts and a group of the area's better-known actors who sing and singers who act bring Gershwin live on stage for all generations....

BWW Review: THE TAFFETAS Bring the Fifties to YLT
by Marakay Rogers - March 11, 2016

The sister act girl group from Muncie Indiana makes its first TV appearance,,, on the York Little Theatre stage. Prepare to hear the greatest hits of the Fifties from some of the great singers of the YLT stage....

BWW Review: SISTER ACT Blesses The Fulton Stage
by Marakay Rogers - March 09, 2016

SISTER ACT is at the Fulton Theatre. It's big, it's brassy, and it's a blessing to have it on stage here....

BWW Review: Brilliant OTHER DESERT CITIES at The Fulton
by Marakay Rogers - February 23, 2016

The Jon Robin Baitz story of family dysfunction in the wealthy Republican enclaves of Palm Springs gets an intimate and brilliantly performed production at the Fulton's Studio Theatre....

BWW Review: TWO TRAINS RUNNING Smoothly at Open Stage
by Marakay Rogers - February 14, 2016

The 1969 installment of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle makes its mark at Open Stage, with Aaron Bomar leading a great cast....