Cedar Crest College has staged a clever, funny and ribald romp with  “Disenchanted! The Musical,” a
subversive take on what happened to all the fairy tale princesses after the “happily ever after.”

The musical revue is being presented through Sept. 29 at Samuels Theater, 100 College Drive, Allentown.

Don’t expect traditional princesses is this comical parody of the Disney princess brand (definitely not sanctioned by Disney). The musical humorously imagines how the princesses would react today to how they have been portrayed in pop culture.

As soon as you enter Between the Lines Studio Theatre, you are immersed in a mysterious and moody atmosphere, complete with wafting fog and subdued lighting. It’s an apt environment for the suppressed passions and desperate actions that take place on stage.

Welcome to  “The Moors,” a deliciously dark Brontean satire, through Sept. 15 at the company’s theater at 725 N.15th St., Allentown.

The story is intriguing, evocative and a bit macabre; and like a horror film, there is plenty of foreshadowing.

Pennsylvania Playhouse presents an amiable “Kiss Me Kate,”elevated by strong leads, through Aug. 11 at Pennsylvania Playhouse, 390 Illick’s Mill Road, Bethlehem.

The musical comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” is a play within a play that showcases sparring lovers, familiar songs and extended dance sequences.

Leading the cast is Armand Reiser and Alexis Smith who play both the estranged lovers Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, as well as Shakespeare’s characters Petruchio and Katherine.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival gives the “extreme Shakespeare” treatment to the Bard’s “Cymbeline” resulting in a somewhat raucous but ultimately satisfying production.

PSF’s boisterous “Cymbeline” is on stage through Aug. 4 in the Schubert Theatre, Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, DeSales University, 2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley.

The play is being produced for the first time in PSF’s 33 years, and marks the festival’s 30th play produced in Shakespeare’s canon.

“Cymbeline” is presented in the festival’s “Extreme Shakespeare” style, with actors rehearsing the way it is believed Shakespeare's company would have. Actors arrive with their lines learned, rehearse on their own without a director, raid the costume shop and open in a matter of a few days.