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Our strong recommendation of DCP’s deeply moving production of "The Diary of Anne Frank", through February 8

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Written by: Ara Barlieb
Category: Play Reviews
Published: 31 January 2026
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Do you want to know how important it is to become familiar with the brief but profoundly impactful life of Anne Frank?
Or do you just want to know how privileged we are to have the opportunity to spend a little time with her at DCP in Telford, PA this weekend and next?
The most challenging part to writing this review is not making it entirely about the indescribably sensitive and confident performance of the 12-year old actor portraying Anne, Ella Pinkerton.
But we’ll come to that, in a bit.

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PA Playhouse's enlightening and heartfelt, “The Lucky Star” is a satisfying and thought-provoking production.

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Written by: Kathy Lauer-Williams
Category: Play Reviews
Published: 27 January 2026
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Pennsylvania Playhouse’s “The Lucky Star” is a moving and profound production that has heart-breaking parallels to what is happening in America today.
The play that recreates letters sent during the Holocaust to a Polish immigrant in the United States is gripping and somber at times, but ultimately hopeful and focuses on familial connections in the shadow of what has been lost.
“The Lucky Star” is through Feb. 8 at Pennsylvania Playhouse, 390 Illick’s Mill Road, Bethlehem.
The play is based on the true story recounted in Richard Hollander’s book “Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from Poland.”

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Engaging "Little Women" full of heart, at Pennsylvania Playhouse

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Written by: Kathy Lauer-Williams
Category: Play Reviews
Published: 10 December 2025
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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. 

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Touchstone's "Christmas City Follies" returns for another memorable year

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Written by: Kathy Lauer-Williams
Category: Play Reviews
Published: 06 December 2025
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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.

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NCC's "Hedda Gabler" is powerful and devastating

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Written by: Kathy Lauer-Williams
Category: Play Reviews
Published: 23 November 2025
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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.

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More Articles …

  1. Delightfully amusing "Holmes for the Holidays" at DeSales Act 1
  2. Act 1's “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” clever and satisfying
  3. Civic's "Shrek" exuberant and funny
  4. “Young Frankenstein” A Shocking Good Time, at PA Playhouse through Oct 26
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PLAY REVIEWS

  • "The Watchers" may not terrify you, but it should, at The Ice House through Oct 19
  • "Allies" debates cultural identity, at Between the Lines Studio Theatre

AUDITIONS

  • Auditions for "An Explosion by the Ballyseedy Woods", third part of CKP's Irish trilogy
  • AUDITIONS for "THE WATCHERS" A chilling new play for a chilling new world

UPCOMING SHOWS

  • "The Watchers" at The Ice House--- Is This America's Dystopian Nightmare Wake-Up Call?
  • At The Ice House, "Black Angel – A Staged Reading by Francine Gold" --- a special one-night showcase of Act 1 of Black Angel — a powerful new play, presented by Basement Poetry