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Back rooms, barrooms, bedrooms, bargains and deals abound in FARRAGUT NORTH, currently playing at The Tri-County Performing Arts Center, as a part of Village Productions’ Collage Series.  Billed as a political drama, this solid script with razor-sharp acting lets the audience steal a look at the inside of a fictionalized [...]

Toys in the attic (phrase) 1) Euphemism for insanity. 2) Bats in the belfry. 3) An old Southern expression meaning “nuts” or “crazy in the head.” TOYS IN THE ATTIC (play) 1) A drama by Lillian Hellman. 2) The newest production at Tri-PAC in Pottstown. 3) The subject of this [...]

The latest of the Collage Series at Tri-PAC in Pottstown is the Tony-Award winning musical revue, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’. Loosely based on the music of Thomas “Fats” Waller, this delightful production is a high-energy evening of song, dance and surprising interaction. Tri-PAC’s production takes place in the Newberry Loft at the [...]

It has a simple name…A CHRISTMAS STORY. It’s consistently rated in the top 5 “classic Christmas” movies of all time. However, up until recently, I had never even seen the movie all the way through. Yes, I saw bits and pieces of it from the traditional Christmas Day marathon on [...]

Tri-County Performing Arts Center and Village Productions opened their 2011-2012 season with PIPPIN. PIPPIN is a “magical” interpretation of the story of Pippin, the son of Charlemagne, performed by a mysterious acting troupe led by the enigmatic Leading Player (David Bazemore). Director John Moletress has done an incredible job with [...]

[Since PETER PAN is a child-oriented play, most of this review is as told to me by my date for the evening, Julia Finkel, my 10 year old granddaughter. (My comments will be enclosed in parentheses)] This is not the Disney PETER PAN or the one I’m familiar with. (It [...]

Village Productions opened NUNSENSE on Friday May 6. NUNSENSE is the story of the Little Sisters of Hoboken, who need to raise money for their school, Mt. Saint Helen’s, because their cook accidentally poisoned a number of their sisterhood and due to an unfortunate occurrence (one of the nuns purchasing [...]

Like many people, I was introduced to THE CRUCIBLE in a high school English class. The teacher dutifully told us that it was a play about McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee. But it’s not. Though deeply allegorical, Arthur Miller’s classic is “about” the Salem witch trials of the [...]

Tri-PAC and Village Productions in Pottstown opened its 2011 Collage Series Thursday night with a performance of Lorraine Hansberry’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN. This is the story of a black family’s experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of the Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago in the 1950’s. The original production [...]

Tri-County Performing Arts Center in Pottstown opened its holiday offering, A CHRISTMAS CAROL – THE MUSICAL, on Friday December 3. I attended the preview on December 2, and was very entertained by what I saw coming together. The show takes place on a relatively small open stage, with a Richard [...]

(He Said….) by [author 10] WAIT UNTIL DARK, by Frederick Knott, has to be one of the most suspenseful and thrilling plays performed since its debut on Broadway in 1966.  After seven previews, the Broadway show, with Lee Remick and Robert Duvall, lasted 337 performances.  The London West End production, [...]

Village Productions opened its newest offering, RAGTIME, THE MUSICAL, on June 3. The show is in the Tri-County Performing Arts Center, a newly-renovated downtown area of Pottstown. Tri-PAC is doing their part to re-energize this community. RAGTIME is a terrific addition to their efforts. The theater in which the production [...]