‘Help’ fundraiser for ScrantonShakesfeatures music tribute to The Beatles

Posted on May 1, 2024 by The Dunmorean

Two Dunmoreans will be among the featured performers in a tribute to The Beatles to be held on Saturday, May 18, at 3 and 6 p.m. at the ShakesSpace at the Marketplace at Steamtown. Entitled “Help,” the event will benefit the 13th season of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival and feature both local and New York talent.

Among the Dunmoreans appearing will be Brian McGurl and Joe McGurl. Spencer Shotto of Dunmore is technical director.

Other area talent includes Erin Malloy, Kelly Jean Graham, Madelyn Casey, LaToya Martin, Michael Bradshaw Flynn, Sarah Pugliese, and Molly Cerep, and others to be announced.

This concert follows last year’s successful tribute “Sunday with Sondheim.”

General admission tickets are $40, and patron tickets are $60 including a cocktail hour with special hors d’oeuvres, and priority seating. Tickets are available at scrantonshakes.com/tickets

Scranton Shakespeare Festival Returns This Month

Posted on June 1, 2022 by The Dunmorean

Another decade of free, professional theater is coming to Northeastern Pennsylvania as Scranton Shakespeare Festival is busy gearing up for Season 11. This summer, SSF’s repertory of Shakespearean plays and musicals will transport audiences to worlds both known and unknown, futuristic and nostalgic.⁠

The 2022 season will open with a musical originally planned for Summer 2020. “We Will Rock You,” the Queen jukebox musical set in a not-far off Orwellian world, will be followed by one of William Shakespeare’s earliest romantic comedies, “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” which is evocative of all your favorite 90s romance movies.

Then, Scranton Shakes presents the decadent and highly-stylized musical “Sweet Charity,” based on a Federico Fellini film, written for the stage by Neil Simon, and directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse.

The season will conclude with SSF’s Youth Ensemble’s second inaugural production with the dark and daring cult classic “Heathers the Musical.”⁠

All shows will be performed at Lackawanna College Theater and at a renovated, intimate venue at The Marketplace at Steamtown.

⁠Box office opens June 23. Performances begin June 30.

“Festival of Trees” To Kick Off Dec. 14th

Posted on December 4, 2019 by The Dunmorean

The annual Festival of Trees exhibit and “Toys for Tots” fundraiser will be held at the Marketplace at Steamtown from Dec. 14 – Jan. 12. The exhibit opens with a Preview Party fundraiser on Friday, Dec. 13. The Lackawanna County Arts and Culture Department is currently seeking non-profit organizations, businesses, churches and schools to sponsor and decorate a tree. All funds raised from the trees go directly to “Toys for Tots.” Participants must supply their own artificial tree.

This year the event looks to celebrate diversity with the theme Here, There and Everywhere! Celebrating Fall and Winter Traditions from Around the World.

The cost to sponsor a tree is $50 for non-profits, schools and small businesses (50 or under employees) and $100 for corporations (over 50 employees).

To register a tree, send checks or money orders, made payable to “Toys for Tots,” to Chris Calvey, Lackawanna County Arts and Culture Department, 300 Cliff Street, Scranton, PA 18503.

Applications may be downloaded from the Lackawanna County website or requested by calling 570-963-6590, ext. 106. Please email any questions to arts-culture@lackawannacounty.org.

Depending on space availability, trees may be registered until Dec, 12. All trees must be set-up by Dec. 13.