Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals "In The Heights" is a buoyant, exuberant and vibrant musical that pulsates with energy. "In the Heights," on the Main Stage at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, DeSales University, Center Valley through July 2, boasts strong performances, soaring voices, thrilling dancing and spot-on direction.

As Usnavi, the bodega owner at the heart of the piece, Ryan Reyes is shyly charming as he wraps his tongue around Lin-Manuel Mirandas rapid-fire rap with ease, particularly in the opening title number in which he introduces the residents of his neighborhood in New Yorks Washington Heights.

Northampton Community College Summer Theater delivers a heartfelt and uplifting production of "The Prom" through June 18 in Lipkin Theater, Northampton Community College, 3835 Green Pond Rd., Bethlehem Township.

"The Prom" boasts an evening of entertaining performances with strong singing and energetic dancing.

The musical follows four struggling Broadway actors as they travel to Indiana to help a lesbian student whose high school prom was canceled after she said she wanted to take her girlfriend to prom.

Pennsylvania Playhouses revival of "The Drowsy Chaperone" is a delightful musical confection. Theres lots to love in this joyful musical which continues through June 18 at the playhouse, 390 Illicks Mill Road, Bethlehem.

Brian Houp is irresistible as the Man in Chair, the droll narrator who breaks the fourth wall as he invites the audience to chase away the blues by listening to his favorite record of a fictitious 1928 musical. The Man in Chair is the heart of the show as he gives a playful running commentary on the on-stage actions in this funny and enchanting homage to musical theater.

The plot of the show within the show has a bride who is giving up the stage to marry a man she has just met.

Crowded Kitchen Players presents a hilarious, manic production of "Pints, Pounds & Pilgrims" an original comedy written and directed by Ara Barlieb, at the Charles A. Brown IceHouse, Bethlehem through June 18.

The wacky comedy is a play within in a play, or rather two plays within a play, as the story follows two competing theater companies who go to an arts festival on the Irish Island of Inishbofin off the coast of Connemara, County Galway to perform.

The excellent Trish Cipoletti is imperious as British director Simone Wexler, who deludes herself that her original Irish tragedy, "A Bad Year for Potatoes," is high art.

Cipoletti is outrageously funny as she blusters, fumes and storms while she delivers arch directions to her clueless cast.