Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE: 14 area businesses compete for top honors 5-7:30 p.m. May 30 at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown in the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley's Volunteer Challenge. Competitors participate in projects at local social service agencies until...

BIDDERS WELCOME: The Baum School of Art's 28th Annual Art Auction starts with a silent auction 6-7:30 p.m. May 18. The live auction begins at 8 p.m, a buffet dinner at 6 p.m. is available for $50 per person; no admission charge for silent and live...

With her latest production, Annapolis Shakespeare Company founder and artistic director Sally Boyett-D'Angelo is expanding the young company's horizons, both artistically and physically. At a recent rehearsal of Jon Jory's adaptation of Jane Austen's...

Against the backdrop of the actual set of Messina, Italy, from Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing,” kids laugh along with the wacky Team Shakespeare as they present the actual language of...

Returning for the fourth year to Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is “Shakespeare for Kids,” which introduces young children to the stories and language of Shakespeare with the help of a trio of players, a robot and an assortment of puppets....

The Allentown Symphony Orchestra opened its 2012 season Saturday night with a pops concert, “Wicked Divas,” starring Alli Mauzey and Dee Roscioli, both of whom have starred as witches in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Wicked&#...

The 1979 Tony Award-winning musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” now playing at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, is Stephen Sondheim's most perfectly constructed musical. And Its plot is both outrageously gory and...

A sweet heroine, a brave hero and seven silly but kind-hearted dwarfs make “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival an enjoyable and light-hearted romp. The children’s show running through Aug. 4...

An Allentown construction company executive who shares his time, talent and good fortune with the city’s arts community on Thursday became just the third recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award from Allentown Arts Commission. Lee Butz of South...

I had almost forgotten about the Allentown Art Museum's free family Sundays since the museum was closed for nearly a year for renovation. But my son remembered, and when we went to the "Much Ado About Everything Family Festival" which kicks off the free...

“Sleeping Beauty” the children’s production at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival” is one of those shows that parents might actually enjoy more than the kids, although the little ones will have a blast too. The classic fairy tale of...

It’s the third year for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s “Shakespeare for Kids,” and the show that slices and dices “Hamlet” to make it palatable for kids is the best edition yet. Shakespeare’s best-known...