Pennsylvania Playhouses revival of "The Drowsy Chaperone" is a delightful musical confection. Theres lots to love in this joyful musical which continues through June 18 at the playhouse, 390 Illicks Mill Road, Bethlehem.

Brian Houp is irresistible as the Man in Chair, the droll narrator who breaks the fourth wall as he invites the audience to chase away the blues by listening to his favorite record of a fictitious 1928 musical. The Man in Chair is the heart of the show as he gives a playful running commentary on the on-stage actions in this funny and enchanting homage to musical theater.

The plot of the show within the show has a bride who is giving up the stage to marry a man she has just met.

Crowded Kitchen Players presents a hilarious, manic production of "Pints, Pounds & Pilgrims" an original comedy written and directed by Ara Barlieb, at the Charles A. Brown IceHouse, Bethlehem through June 18.

The wacky comedy is a play within in a play, or rather two plays within a play, as the story follows two competing theater companies who go to an arts festival on the Irish Island of Inishbofin off the coast of Connemara, County Galway to perform.

The excellent Trish Cipoletti is imperious as British director Simone Wexler, who deludes herself that her original Irish tragedy, "A Bad Year for Potatoes," is high art.

Cipoletti is outrageously funny as she blusters, fumes and storms while she delivers arch directions to her clueless cast.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opened its 2023 season with William Shakespeares "Henry IV, Part 2" through June 11 in the Schubert Theater, Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, DeSales University, Center Valley.

"Henry IV, Part 2" is being presented in the festivals "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. As a result, the production has a bit of a flying-by-the-seat-of-the-pants feel but contains strong performances and many powerful moments.

The Pines Dinner Theater takes audiences on a rollicking road trip through 1950s and 1960s music with its tune-filled revue "Route 66" through June 24 at the theater at 448 N 17th Street, Allentown.

A cast of 4 performers dressed as auto mechanics sings and plays their own instruments on an astonishing string of 30 road and car-related songs from Jan and Deans ""Dead Man's Curve" to Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again."

A radio broadcast complete with vintage car commercials periodically sets the stage along the historic Route 66 from Chicago to Oklahoma City to Amarillo to Flagstaff to Los Angeles.