Pennsylvania Playhouse stages a satisfyingly gritty and unsettling production of “Cabaret” through June 16 at the playhouse at 390 Illick’s Mill Road, Bethlehem.

Billed as an immersive production, entertainers from the play’s Kit Kat Club greet audience members as they approach the theater and inside the lobby before the show. Performers also roam around inside the theater posing on the railing and dancing on the stage prior to the show’s start. The five-person band, led by music director Liam Mulligan (a welcome return of live musician to the playhouse) are on stage and entertaining before the show, adding to the immersive feel.

Impressive on-stage swordplay highlights Pennsylvania Playhouses playful production of "The Three Musketeers" through April 21 at the playhouse at 390 Illicks Mill Road, Bethlehem.

This version is written by Ken Ludwig, who has infused Alexandre Dumas classic 1844 novel "The Three Musketeers" with a generous dose of contemporary humor and slapstick comedy.

You might know a little about Irelands struggle for independence, but few people know many of the details. "The Revolution: The Irish War of Independence 1919-1921" dramatizes it in stark detail. St. Patricks Day traditions make us think of a happy, easygoing people. But the Irish have had a difficult history.

The Crowded Kitchen Players latest production at Bethlehems IceHouse on Sand Island is a live documentary. The players in the ensemble take turns telling the Irish story with facts and dramatizations.

A screen above the stage shows historical scenes and photographs of the actual participants. The latter includes the grandfather of cast member Fiona Galligan Sweeney.

"The Revolution" is the second part of a trilogy of plays written by director Ara Barlieb about the Irish struggle for independence from England. The first play, 2022s "The Rising," was about the insurrection staged on Easter Monday of 1916, which began in Dublin.

"The Laramie Project" is haunting, impassioned theater filled with raw emotion, that is delivered by a profoundly moving cast at Northampton Community College theater department. The play that looks at a horrific hate crime by examining the many people who lived in the very ordinary town in which it happened, is on the colleges Norman Roberts Lab Theatre through March 11.

Although the campus is reeling from the sudden death of Bill Mutimer, the head of the colleges theater department, it was decided "the show must go on."

Brett Oliveira, the shows technical director, spoke before the show, saying "Bill was very excited that the college was doing "The Laramie Project" on the 25th anniversary of Matthew Shepards death."