DeSales University Act 1’s “Little Shop of Horrors” is deliciously dark and wildly entertaining. The horror musical boasts great performances, hilariously kitschy visuals and some top notch singing.

“Little Shop of Horrors,” is on the main stage through Oct. 6 at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, DeSales University, 2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley.

In the story, hopeless nerd Seymour is toiling away at a thankless job at a failing flower shop on New York’s Skid Row, when he chances upon a strange flytrap-type plant while shopping in Chinatown during an eclipse.

Cedar Crest College has staged a clever, funny and ribald romp with  “Disenchanted! The Musical,” a
subversive take on what happened to all the fairy tale princesses after the “happily ever after.”

The musical revue is being presented through Sept. 29 at Samuels Theater, 100 College Drive, Allentown.

Don’t expect traditional princesses is this comical parody of the Disney princess brand (definitely not sanctioned by Disney). The musical humorously imagines how the princesses would react today to how they have been portrayed in pop culture.

As soon as you enter Between the Lines Studio Theatre, you are immersed in a mysterious and moody atmosphere, complete with wafting fog and subdued lighting. It’s an apt environment for the suppressed passions and desperate actions that take place on stage.

Welcome to  “The Moors,” a deliciously dark Brontean satire, through Sept. 15 at the company’s theater at 725 N.15th St., Allentown.

The story is intriguing, evocative and a bit macabre; and like a horror film, there is plenty of foreshadowing.

Pennsylvania Playhouse presents an amiable “Kiss Me Kate,”elevated by strong leads, through Aug. 11 at Pennsylvania Playhouse, 390 Illick’s Mill Road, Bethlehem.

The musical comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” is a play within a play that showcases sparring lovers, familiar songs and extended dance sequences.

Leading the cast is Armand Reiser and Alexis Smith who play both the estranged lovers Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, as well as Shakespeare’s characters Petruchio and Katherine.