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1 week ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Can a rocker from Bucks County buck the binds that brand him as different, build a distance from the naysayers who discount his talent, then move on to a world stage rocking and roiling expectations with rockets of red flares streaming promise and pure joy, sounding off with the sweet siren mysteries of music? Fat chance? No.Langhorne Slim. What's the skinny on Slim?
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2 weeks ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
No way it's going to be a cruel summer for the soon-to-be-13 Kennedy Richter, of Perkasie. No matter the heat, what better way to be cool at camp than to chill out taking the temp of the times by singing Taylor Swift tunes. The daughter of proud parents Rob and Miranda and older sis to Scarlett, Kennedy probably knows it's better not to ask what her country singer can do for her but what she can do for her country singer. But why Taylor Swift? And why is everybody so..."Enchanted"?
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2 weeks ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
When it comes to whodunits, Bristol's Miche Braden dunit better than most. Already awarded and applauded for all that jazz royalty she has brought to the stage — Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey — the Bristol actress/singer is now tuning into another aspect of her theatrical legacy.
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3 weeks ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
If "Real Women Have Curves," as they rightfully and proudly boast on Broadway these days, what do real men have? "Angles," agrees Mason Reeves. Both physical and geographical: For Reeves, the geographical has Bucks County built right in. Reeves is one of the stellar stars of the two-time Tony Award-nominated musical — the awards are being presented Sunday night on CBS.
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3 weeks ago | 
buckscountyherald.com | Michael Elkin
Roasted garlic? Edmondo Crimi is not biting: Not on this menu, he says. In fact there's no food at all to offer: "This is a roast of Dracula," corrects Crimi. Oh. Then hold the garlic. Indeed, what Crimi is holding is a toast and roast of the vampire who has never had to vamp for time: At 128 years, he even still has his own teeth, blood-stained they may be. The event, open to the public, with invited guests including Dracula's blood relatives, also features an appearance by Frankenstein.
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1 month 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 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 27, 2025 | 
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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Mar 7, 2025 | 
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.
