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1 week ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Used to be, in less enlightened times, admission to a "funny farm" had a strict dress code: a straitjacket and tied hands. These days, the code is deciphered differently: suit yourself — as long as you're clothed in a comic spirit loose enough to laugh raucously. And today, the farm can be a literal fun house, offering a reflection on chaotic times by its angled way of looking at life through the comedy of convex mirrors.
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2 weeks ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Actor Teddy Yudain used to play hot dogs. Now, he's selling them. And there's no doubt the youthful-looking Yudain is one of the hottest at his job: He has spent some 1,000 performances — and is the last remaining original cast member — planted on the off-Broadway stage of "Little Shop of Horrors," understudying, among other parts, both Orin and Seymour.
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3 weeks ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Langhorne Players' latest leap into the laboratory of life is not so much a blast from the past as it is from the future. And it is so sonically stunning in lowering the boom on Boomers and their descendants as it descends into the demi-monde of man's inhumanity to man. "After the Blast," the season opener starting Friday, makes noise and nightmares with its noisome premise of Earth at its endgame following a nuclear holocaust that sends survivors underground.
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1 month ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
"Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other ..."Liner? A long-lost beatific Beatles ode to boatage? Not quite; more like a love letter to the late queen of the sea by a local notable from Quakertown with titanic dreams and vivid visions. Put your oars in the water, Moptops; it's going to be a while before you catch up to Christine Landis.
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2 months ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
It takes a Village — and an area performing arts center — to turn the tables on those who doubt fine dining and fun theater can offer a menu of morsels and mischief for a merry mix of comestibles and comedy. Indeed, the proof is in the pudding — as well as the entrees and entertainment — as Peddler's Village in Lahaska and the Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts of Doylestown have cooked up a new dinner theater at the Village's Cock 'n Bull Restaurant.
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2 months ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Take me home, country roads... Which isn't too far a commute when you carve out a living at the Bucks County Playhouse and your original home was just a cowboy-hatted hike away in Langhorne. Maybe there's a country song in there somewhere. It certainly isn't "Romania, Romania." Bucks County native Bryan Fenkart is riding high these days with music on his mind and songs in his heart as he croons tunes that help him seek southern comfort in country chords.
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2 months ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Bucks County's Pearl S. Buck wrote "The Good Earth."Bucks County Community College is reveling in unearthing its roots. The school is flexing its Flower Power these days as, for the first time, BCCC's floral team has been invited to take part in the Philadelphia Flower Show, presented by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, founded in 1827, just two years before celebrating its first PFS. The event traditionally attracts some 250,000 floral fans from across the nation.
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2 months ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Alice doesn't live here anymore? Oh, yes, she doesSince the lightning quick-minded literary legend Lewis Carroll carried his "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" to the hearts of fascinated children worldwide in 1865, the young girl with tunnel vision and tons of self-validation has found a home through the years in books, theaters, movies and television, teleporting her sense of wonder and wanderlust to the stuff that dreams are made of.
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2 months ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Catching "Hay Fever" mid-winter? Nothing to sneeze at, says one who knows. Indeed, Bucks County's Ellie Mooney is finding relief these days onstage at the Walnut Street Theatre, where she and the rest of the company have the perfect mold and model: the Center City theater is celebrating the Noël Coward comedy of ill manners' centennial as hanky panky pans out amid maniacal and merry twists of mistaken identity, which identify this as one of the writer's best works. "Hay Fever" runs through March 9.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
It might not be Hollywood but it certainly is Tinseltown. How better to describe the Walnut Street Theatre as it puts out some kookie characters and milks the fun of "ELF The Broadway Musical," the mirth-filled movie-cum-musical about a 6-foot Santa's helper who can't help wonder why it's a small world for his coworkers but larger than life for himself. kAmxEVD @?6 E9:?8 E@ 2AA=J 2 EC66\E@AA6C H9:=6 @? 2 =2556Cj BF:E6 2?@E96C E@ >2<6 E96 677@CE H96?
