Pennsylvania Playhouse’s production of Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 19th century novel “Little Women” is bristling with energy and filled with heart.

Engaging and satisfying. the play based on the beloved story of the March sisters, is on stage through Dec. 21 at Pennnsylvania Playhouse, 390 Illick’s Mill Road, Bethlehem. 

A focus on storytelling, both with and without music, gives this year’s “Christmas City Follies XXVI” a truly heartwarming feel. Combine that with the Touchstone Theatre cast’s always inciteful observations and laugh-out-loud funny skits, and it’s a formula for another memorable year of the vaudevillian-style holiday show.

Northampton Community College Theatre Department have produced a “Hedda Gabler” that is powerful and devastating.
Enthralling performances elevate this updated adaptation of the 19th century Henrik Ibsen classic play that is running through Nov. 24 in the Lab Theater on the school’s Bethlehem Township campus.

DeSales University Act 1 Theater has staged a delightfully amusing holiday whodunit that blends mirth with murder and mayhem in its playful production of Ken Ludwig’s “The Game’s Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays” through Dec. 2 on the Main Stage in Labuda Center for the Performing Arts in Center Valley.