Published November 6, 2009, 10:28 PM EST

by LAURA KNOWLES

LANCASTER, Pa. - Ask anyone who is married and most will agree that marriage isn't always easy.Fortunately, there is a bright side — perhaps even a funny side — to marriage, as shown in this season's Promise Players performance of "How To Make the Mrs. Happy.""Ever......

Published November 6, 2009, 9:18 PM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - From a dramatic point of view, the Christmas Story is a doozy.There is drama, suspense, great joy, humility and celebration.It's a story that features riches and kings right alongside the animals in a humble stable.And though we hear the story again and again at this time......

Published November 2, 2009, 12:00 AM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - As I was watching the Ephrata Performing Art Center's wonderful production of "Company," Thursday night, I grew very grateful.Grateful for Stephen Sondheim's amazing songs.Just about every one of them in "Company" is brilliant, from "Sorry-Grateful," and "Another Hundred People," to......

Published November 1, 2009, 12:04 AM EST

by MARTY CRISP

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Just as Stephen Sondheim's 1970 Tony Award-winning musical "Company" was revived on Broadway in 1995 (winning a Tony) and again in 2006 (winning a Tony), the new production of "Company" at Ephrata Performing Arts Center is a revival. EPAC first mounted the show in 198......

Published October 29, 2009, 4:50 PM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Bryon Thomas Smith, who is playing Bobbie in the Ephrata Performing Arts Center's production of "Company," knows he has to get naked in the show.Not literally, but emotionally.And that's a heck of a lot tougher than simply shedding your clothes."Sondhei......

Published October 29, 2009, 4:43 PM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER - Todd Mitchell, a veteran of the American Music Theatre, says the key for keeping his voice in good shape is simple: plenty of water and plenty of sleep. The water won't be a problem, but in about four weeks, forget about that sleep. Mitchell and his wife, Samantha, a dancer with AMT......

Published October 26, 2009, 12:00 AM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER, Pa. - If you like your murder mysteries British and bloodless, "Dial M for Murder," which opened Thursday night at the Fulton, should be right up your alley.What's the appeal of "Dial M for Murder," which was a play (by Frederick Knott) before it became the popular Alfred......

Published October 25, 2009, 12:12 AM EST

by DAINA SAVAGE

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - No matter how "acquainted with the night" Robert Frost may have been, readers tend to equate his poetry with pleasing pastoral scenes rather than with disarming darkness. Chris Longenecker aims to change that perception. The Lancaster actress (and prolific poet in her own righ......

Published October 25, 2009, 12:10 AM EST

by MARTY CRISP

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with a candlestick. Captain Lesgate in the living room with a scarf. "Dial M for Murder," the second offering of the Fulton's 2009-10 season, will remind you of the game Clue. The show touches on the puzzle aspect of murder mysteries oft......

Published October 25, 2009, 12:08 AM EST

by MICHAEL C. UPTON

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - It's hard to dispute the success of Stephen Sondheim. He's written the scores of some of Broadway's most iconic shows — "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Sunday in the Park With George,&qu......