Dietrich Theater hopes to tackle loans with campaign

The Dietrich Theater will be announcing a public fundraising campaign Saturday to help ensure the future of Tunkhannock's premier cultural organization. The sustainability campaign seeks to raise $335,000 to satisfy loans, which cost the Dietrich $2,600 a month, said Dietrich executive director Erica Rogler.

President Donald Trump prays during a cabinet meeting at the White House in 2017.

"The Trump Prophecy," a movie that follows a retired Florida firefighter as God tells him in 2011 that Trump will be president , is making its big screen debut across the United States this week. Liberty University and ReelWorks Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina, produced the film, and it's playing in about 1,200 theaters countrywide, according to a Liberty University news release.

DeVos’ dramatic confirmation hearing inspires drama on stage

Guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears? Betsy DeVos endured yet another rocky Senate confirmation hearing to become education secretary - this time on a theater stage. During the performance at Arena Stage, about a dozen student actors from local high schools played frustrated Democrats and friendly Republicans grilling DeVos about the public education, the role of the federal government in civil rights, and her family wealth.

DeVos play not meant as ‘cartoon or lampoon,’ producer says

Guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears? Betsy DeVos endured yet another rocky confirmation hearing in the Senate to become education secretary - this time on a theater stage. In a play performed Monday at Washington's Arena Stage theater, about a dozen student actors from local high schools posed as frustrated Democrats and friendly Republicans to grill DeVos on the merits of public education, the role of the federal government in civil rights, and her family wealth.

DeVos’ rocky Senate confirmation hearing turned into theater

Guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears? Betsy DeVos endured yet another rocky confirmation hearing in the Senate to become education secretary - this time on a theater stage. In a play performed Monday at Washington's Arena Stage theater, about a dozen student actors from local high schools posed as frustrated Democrats and friendly Republicans to grill DeVos on the merits of public education, the role of the federal government in civil rights, and her family wealth.

Scoop: Upcoming Guests on the Late Show on CBS

Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater.

BWW Interview: Francis Jue becomes David Henry Hwang (sort of) in…

This weekend is your last chance to see the spectacularly original Soft Power by David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori at the Curran Theatre. The audacious and highly entertaining production, directed by Leigh Silverman and choreographed by Sam Pinkleton , features a gifted cast of all Asian-American actors led by Drama Desk Award nominee Francis Jue , in the very meta role of David Henry Hwang .

E-cigarettes may damage blood vessels in the same way as Heart Disease, study finds

Meghan's bond with Her Majesty! Harry's bride shows her growing friendship with the Queen as they giggle their way through a theater performance on their first joint public engagement West Point drummer sues Fox & Friends after he was hit in the arm with an AX when stunt went horribly wrong 'I almost ran him overa then he asked me out!' People reveal the VERY surprising ways they found love on Twitter - including a couple who HATED each other when they met Giuliani DENIES former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is set to cooperate with federal prosecutors and refuses to say if the president told Cohen to contact Russians about Moscow building project EXCLUSIVE: Former sex worker claims Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof choked and raped her - making her the third woman to come forward with allegations against the brothel owner who just won Republican primary for the Nevada legislature Los Angeles ... (more)

Higher vitamin D levels cut colorectal cancer risk by 31%, major international study finds

Meghan's bond with Her Majesty! Harry's bride shows her growing friendship with the Queen as they giggle their way through a theater performance on their first joint public engagement West Point drummer sues Fox & Friends after he was hit in the arm with an AX when stunt went horribly wrong 'I almost ran him overa then he asked me out!' People reveal the VERY surprising ways they found love on Twitter - including a couple who HATED each other when they met Giuliani DENIES former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is set to cooperate with federal prosecutors and refuses to say if the president told Cohen to contact Russians about Moscow building project EXCLUSIVE: Former sex worker claims Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof choked and raped her - making her the third woman to come forward with allegations against the brothel owner who just won Republican primary for the Nevada legislature Los Angeles ... (more)

Works in Progres: A View From the Barge

A tragedy unfolded last week in a preschool classroom in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, which included an unhealthy love obsession, illegal immigrants and a violent standoff, all staged amid blocks, hula hoops and children's books. Members of Brave New World Repertory Theater were rehearsing "A View From the Bridge," Arthur Miller's play set in working-class Brooklyn, which after years of revivals in other places, has finally landed back where it was born - in working-class Brooklyn.

‘RBG’ Rules Limited-Release Newcomers; ‘Disobedience’ &…

UPDATED at 10:55AM PT with more numbers and analysis. Magnolia and Participant's Sundance documentary RBG opened in 34 locations Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West, the feature spotlighting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg grossed 560,000, or $16,471 per location, making it one of the top non-fiction releases of the year.

John Bolton on push to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons

Michelle Wolf got it just right "Thank you!" - That's how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer's declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was "a disgrace." Her response is instructive: To Wolf Michelle Wolf's Routine Sets Off a Furor at an Annual Washington Dinner - WASHINGTON - The panna cotta had been served and the First Amendment duly celebrated by the time the comedian Michelle Wolf took the stage on Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

Mark O’Donnell’s Last Opening

When her phone rang that day, Leah Nanako Winkler was broke. She'd come to New York on a bus, a decade earlier, with forty-five hundred dollars that she'd earned by selling her eggs to a fertility clinic, and now she was thinking about taking a part-time job as a dog groomer because she couldn't afford to both pay her rent and do the only work she wanted to do: write plays.

HISTORY, April 14: Lincoln shot; Titanic hits iceberg; dust storm blackens Plains

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship's time and began sinking.