Whether cute kittens and puppies or creepy crawlers and lethal predators, people love images of animals. Pamela Earnshaw Kelly of Montrose is looking for more than an "aww" or "eww" when she creates ceramic portraits of their likeness.
"I'm drawn to an
Boasting a linear plot and relatively straightforward language, Exit the King (Le Roi se meurt) is thought to be less avant-garde than Eugene Ionesco's other works. Still, it's not a work you'd expect to find playing in a small town in rural Pennsylvania
Accessibility is a buzz word in arts funding. We certainly use it a lot on the Lackawanna Council on Arts, Culture and Education (of which I am a volunteer member) in discussing the criteria for how tax dollar-funded grants should be distributed.
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In order to paint a subject or write a poem about it, the creator is brought to consider it with unprecedented intimacy. He or she confronts it with focused senses, letting it affect or infect before reacting. When asked to consider the Earth, artists ha
Housed in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Marilyn and Richard Maslow Collection of modern art has expanded to include more than 500 works by 150 artists since its inception in 1982. This fall will bring two Maslow exhibitions and a series of symposia to t
The 570 is by no means culturally barren, but artistic opportunities aren't dangling to be plucked as readily as in wealthier metropolises. Here, artists often have to create their own opportunities. Actors become directors in order to play a dream role.
Diva Production Company has been operating as one of six companies at the Phoenix Performing Arts Centre in Duryea the past couple of years, waiting (ahem) patiently to play in Scranton again. Theatre Alfresco may not be the permanent solution to the hom
It wasn't the first time he had heard their stories, but there was something about the way the miners spoke that day last August along the Lackawanna River in Olyphant that reminded Patrick J. Marcinko II of his father. He was there for the dedication of
It's August and the kids are gearing up for school, the trees are hunkering down for their trip into that long dark night, and publishers are poised, ready to pounce on the season like hungry cats, if cats ate people who read books … or readers were li
Diva Production Company has been operating as one of six companies at the Phoenix Performing Arts Centre in Duryea the past couple of years, waiting (ahem) patiently to play in Scranton again. Theatre Alfresco may not be the permanent solution to the hom
Wearing many hats - literally
In the course of a day, Wilkes-Barre's Jocelyn Chocallo wears many hats. She's a wife, mother, friend, teacher, community volunteer and passionate advocate for one of Wilkes-Barre's greatest treasures - its libraries. As th
NEPA only has itself to blame for losing artist Amanda Coupland to more colorful pastures.
The Green Ridge native sold 11 pieces at her first art show at the former Toad Hall in Scranton. She then joined the pre-Mall at Steamtown STAR Gallery and within
The iconic grin and grimace of ancient Greek comedy and tragedy masks are the universally recognized symbol for theater even as thespians haven't worn them for centuries. Well, outside of Japanese Noh, commedia dell'Arte and Greek revival, or Disney's Be
Joyce Ellen Weinstein has studied in Israel and Lithuania, and painted in Prague, but it's her hometown of New York City that perhaps most profoundly influences her work.
"Growing up as part of the 'anything goes' cultural atmosphere and the diversity of
