Arts & Culture

The Allentown Film Festival is now in its second year and will feature short films and Q&A sessions with filmmakers.

The event's theme this year is "All Jazzed Up," and students shared what they're excited — or jazzed up — about in their own lives.

Actor/comedian Patrick Roach, who plays the character Randy on “Trailer Park Boys,” will bring Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic to Maingate Nightclub on Saturday, June 1.

Violinist Diane Monroe and New Jersey-based dance group Nimbus are among the scheduled performers set for April at Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University.

Megan Campbell and her son Finley have just released their first storybook, "Home is Where the Heart is," which features some of the young man's favorite spots in Easton.

Blues Traveler, which also in the 1990s had five gold and platinum albums and whose 1990 hit "Run-Around" spent 49 weeks on the Top 100, will perform Aug. 24. Also on the show will be Big Head Todd and The Monsters, who had the Top 15 hits “Bittersweet,” “Broken Hearted Savior” and “Resignation Superman.”

A $900,000 grant to ArtsQuest and the City of Bethlehem will improve pedestrian infrastructure around the nonprofit's Banana Factory complex on Third Street.

A new event, Steel City Smokeout, will be held Saturday, July 20, on PNC Plaza on the SteelStacks campus in conjunction with Bethlehem restaurant Nick’s BBQ.

Moravian University students wrote and directed the productions as part of their Master of Fine Arts thesis projects. Their performances at Touchstone Theatre — spread out through April and starting this week — will explore disability, self-worth and creativity.

Heavyweight developer City Center plans to open its new music venue, The Archer, in the 900 block of Hamilton Street in Allentown later this fall. Construction is underway.

The art show is hosted by Lehigh University Art Galleries and features pieces of Buddhist art from thousands of years ago.

Broadway actors Orfeh and Andy Karl came to William Allen High to conduct a workshop for the school's upcoming performance of Little Shop of Horrors

IronPigs had their annual Pig Day celebration at Coca-Cola Stadium in Allentown.

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Toastique, whose founder is a Lehigh Valley native, is finally coming to Bethlehem.

The Lehigh Valley takes center stage in a new independent film, 'Lucky Louie,' by faith-based production company A Channel of Peace. It will premiere in April at the Roxy Theatre in Northampton.

The City of Allentown has announced its events calendar for 2023.

The move of AJR's concert from Friday, Aug. 4, to Thursday, Aug. 3, was due to "an unforeseen scheduling challenge," Musikfest said in a news release.

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The shopping center is searching for artists to create a large mural on the two west-facing curved block walls next to the AMC movie theater.

MunOpCo Music Theatre in Allentown is offering three more performances of the production this weekend, March 3-5.

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