Northampton Community College Bill Mutimer Memorial Summer Theatre has staged a thoroughly heart warming and well-rounded production of the classic musical “Fiddler on the Roof” through July 7 at Lipkin Theater, Northampton Community College, 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem Township.
This production has it all - top-notch dancing, great musicianship, memorable acting and effective costumes and set.
In the pre-show curtain talk, artistic director Clair Freeman and technical director Brett Oliveira remembered Bill Mutimer, the founder of the program and who died March 6.

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.