This freezing cold weekend will offer opportunities to warm up your insides with a chili cook-off, enjoy the fresh air in an outdoor run, or even adopt a dog to snuggle up with.
But first, a coming-of-age rock musical production put on by mostly young adults.
‘Spring Awakening’ presented by Scranton Shakespeare Festival
“Spring Awakening” is a dramatic musical with heavy subject matters. The group that decided to take this on has a special connection.
With the exception of two actors playing adult characters, the 18- to 21-year-old actors are all alumni of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival’s youth ensemble program.
Lizzie Newcomb Gumula is the director of the production and director of education for the performing arts nonprofit. It was her idea to bring alumni of the program together for a performance as it prepares for its fifth season in 2025…