Guest actor Ben Will as Franco and Ensemble Member James Goode as Arthur in BTE’s Superior Donuts   Last (but not least) Weekend Plenty of plays continuing on regional stages   Every playwright strives to win the pinnacle Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The only problem is after achieving the goal, the rest of their careers will be spent creating in the...

Catch the Dream Dreamgirls at the Scranton Cultural Center   Title track aside, the Dreamgirls soundtrack is most often cited for “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.” The song won original Broadway star Jennifer Holliday a Grammy Award and Jennifer Hudson a Tony. But Charity Dawson’s performance of “I Am Changing,” might lead fans to shift...

“‘Soon the green will cover the gray’ is about what I’ve been looking at for the last six months outside my window, anticipating when is it going to be green and when can I enjoy the landscape instead of just looking at it (through glass),” Wandall said.   Feeling the Landscape   Abstract images are more refreshing to the eyes than ever now...

Still Paving the Way Joan Rivers visits the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts   In the surprisingly revealing documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010), the comedienne teases protégé Kathy Griffin that she didn’t just pave the way for her and other female entertainers in the past tense — she’s still doing it.   And the funny...

Tiffany design by Clara Walcott Driscoll   More than a Muse Louis Comfort Tiffany’s iconic Art Nouveau glass works — lamps, jewelry, mosaics, and windows — are among the most replicated designs in modern history. Many of them were actually envisioned by the woman behind the businessman, his chief glass designer Clara Walcott Driscoll.   You can...

The Remi Method How much do you want an audience?   Once upon a time there was a man who had a good theater experience. This man hadn’t been to the theater much, if ever, before someone offered him a ticket to see the national tour of Hair — The Musical presented by the Broadway Theatre League at the Scranton Cultural Center earlier this week. “Who...

Hear the People Sing Regional premiere of Les Mis benefits KISS kids   The lyrics cry of squashed dreams, unjust persecution, yearning for impossible loves, poverty, war, sickness and death. Everybody dies, but the musical’s majestic grand themes of purity of heart and incorruptibility of the spirit in the face of overwhelming suffering somehow leaves...

  Double Stack   A fifth generation textile artist, Claire Marcus has knitted, felted, hooked, and stitched her way around works of art inspired by family heritage and created with hand-dyed and hand-spun fibers. In a new exhibition of mixed media pieces titled Railroad Perspectives, she turns her stitches to maps and digital photographs on paper and...

Wilkes University’s production of Gemini features, from left: Cierra Cellerari, Jimmy Basquill, Corey Martin, and James Daly.   A Forward Spring Colleges put politics and populism center stage   “Plain and not honest is too harsh a style,” Queen Elizabeth advises in Act 4, scene four of Richard III.   While theater can’t always claim to...

Think Happy Thoughts Peter Pan flies into town next weekend   So Cathy Rigby is 60 … So what? Get over it! If growing up means becoming so cynical we deny ourselves the joys in life then maybe we need to regress a little. Don’t make us dose your decaf with fairy dust.   Eight reasons to see Peter Pan:   1. You’re just jealous because...