Antrobus Arts’ production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” is dynamic and moving with powerful performances by the talented cast..
The concert-style production is running Sundays through July 7 at Coplay Saengerbund, 205 S. Fifth St., Coplay.
Conceived by Antrobus Arts’ Bob Fahringer and Peter Schmidt as a concert in a bar, staging the production in a small space creates an intimacy with the performers as well as an immersive feel.

Civic Theatre presents a cheeky, laugh-out-loud funny production of “Five Lesbians Eating A Quiche” through June 23 in Civic’s Theatre514, 514 N. Nineteenth St., Allentown.

An ensemble of five women brings a raw energy and comedic physicality to this flaky, in-your-face comedy.

A winner at the 2012 New York City International Fringe Festival, it’s not surprising the play has a very Fringe-y feel.

The story takes place in 1956 at the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein, whose members are having their annual quiche breakfast. They all call themselves widows, since in the repressive 1950s, that could be the only reason none have husbands, although as one character deadpans shes never actually been married.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has staged a near-perfect production of Jason Robert Brown’s complex and challenging musical “The Last Five Years,” through June 30 in the Schubert Theatre at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of DeSales University, Center Valley.

All the parts came together skillfully for a thoroughly satisfying and outstanding evening of musical theater.

This two-person, almost completely sung-through show is very demanding for the two leads and Benjamin Lurye and Chani Werely were up to the task as couple Jamie and Cathy with soaring vocals and crisp, smart acting.

Presented by Crowded Kitchen Players at the Charles A. Brown Ice House, 56 River St., Bethlehem, through June 16,  regional playwright Paul Kodiak’s moving and thoughtful play takes an unflinching look at the devastating effect mental illness can have on loved ones.

John Corl is heartbreaking as Army veteran Oscar, who is the one struggling with dementia. Corl skillfully conveys Oscar’s inner turmoil as he grapples with his overwhelming memories of his time in World War II that threaten to make him relive the war.

As Oscar’s wife Lucy, Pamela Wallace also effectively conveys a wide range of emotions. She is in love with her husband of more than 50 years but is helpless and frustrated when she feels like she can no longer find “her Oscar.”

Audiences get a poignant glimpse of Corl’s Oscar before dementia began taking over, in a flashback from four years earlier. In the flashback, Oscar is sweet, playful and romantic with an attentive Lucy when they have a rendezvous on a park bench after Oscar gets off work..