While the weather outside may be turning damp and rainy, the local theater scene is set to heat up with the start of the winter months. November will see a slate of exciting productions brighten up the Electric City, so take a look and grab a show when the curtain comes up… Vintage Theater presents “Pride and Prejudice” Among the many groups and companies assembling their lineups is Scranton’s Vintage Theater,...

Scranton playwright Nancy Hasty recently earned first place in the 2009 Jerry Kaufman Playwrighting Competition in New York City for her latest play, “Lawnchairs,” and the Electric Theatre Company will perform the play in its world premiere in March. Hasty, a rostered artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, has written 10 plays that have been produced off-Broadway, regionally and internationally....

Support Scranton’s own professional theater company tomorrow with a piano, lute and harp concert to benefit the Electric Theater Company. “Piano & Lute (and Harp): A celebration of strings, struck and plucked” will feature Patricia E. Dunleavy on piano and Giselle Pedraza on lute and harp performing contemporary music from Cuba, Russia, and the United States. It’s the final benefit performance...

What could be better than theater and beer? The opening night of Electric Theatre Company’s latest production, “Brilliant Traces,” will be followed by a craft beer tasting with refreshments provided by Giovanni’s and L.T. Verrastro. Opening night is set for Saturday, March 28. The show starts at 8 p.m. and the post-show party will begin around 10 p.m. Featuring Scranton actress Heather Stuart and New...

For the first First Friday of 2009, there will be 21 venues across the downtown area participating this Friday, Feb. 6, from 6-9 p.m. Some of the exhibits you’ll want to check out on Friday include “Abstractions,” a display of abstract photos by Jonathan Steele at Anthology New and Used Books, 515 Center Street; “Spanning Time and Place,” color photography by Patricia E. Dunleavy at The Electric Theatre...

Electric Theatre Company‘s Zuppa del Giorno will put their unique spin on a Shakespeare classic with “The Very Nearly Perfect Comedy of Romeo and Juliet,” playing Feb. 4-22. Zuppa del Giorno is Electric Theatre Company’s contemporary American commedia dell’arte troupe. “The Very Nearly Perfect Comedy of Romeo and Juliet” is Zuppa’s eighth production and will feature international...