At the end of the first act of "All Shook Up" the musical currently running at Northampton Community College's Summer Theatre, the woman sitting next to me made a comment as she saw me taking notes.

I told her I was writing a review, and she said "Well, I want to let you know, I love it!"

Apparently, the audience at the Sunday matinee performance agreed with her!

"All Shook Up", a musical Elvis blast from the past and like the movie "Footloose", brings song, dance and love into a 1950s community that has been repressed by their conservative mayor sincerely played by Shannon Felletter with her quiet but lovesick Sheriff, Josh Crowley.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has staged a deliciously comedic take on Jane Austins "Sense and Sensibility" through Aug. 5 on the Main Stage at Labuda As Center for the Performing Arts, DeSales University, Center Valley.Austens story of sisters who are put out of their house and left penniless after their father dies, feels fresh and assured as directed by Jessica Bedford.

Sarah Gliko plays the sensible oldest sister Elinor with a quiet self-assurednes. Glikos Elinor is strong but hides her emotions behind her oh-so-practical demeanor. Meanwhile, Arianna Daniels middle sister Marianne is tempestuous and impulsive, with a giddy lack of decorum, contrasting her older sister.

Pennsylvania Playhouses "Kinky Boots" is delightfully extravagant in its area premiere at the Bethlehem theater through Aug. 6.

The high energy production is buoyed by outstanding performances by its leads.

As drag queen Lola, Andrew Stewart is fabulous. Stewarts Lola has it all, attitude, sass, hot dance moves (even a cartwheel), a good voice and looks amazing in a sequin dress and stilettos. Not only that but Stewart makes this diva heartbreakingly human, demonstrating true method acting when tears fell during the moving ""Im Not My Fathers Son," sung in duet with Joemichael Lucianos extremely likable Charlie Price.

Ebony Pullum brings legendary jazz songstress Billie Holiday to vibrant life in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals heartbreaking "Lady Day at Emersons Bar & Grill" through Aug. 6 in the Schubert Theater, Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, Desales University, Center Valley.The show brilliantly recreates one of Holidays final performances before she died in 1959 at a Philadelphia bar in a tour-de-force turn by Pullum.