With coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions easing in the Commonwealth, restaurants have been allowed to resume indoor dining with capacity restrictions.

The Pines Dinner Theatre is ready with a new interactive comedy-murder mystery.

“Lucky Lindy’s Not So Lucky Landing” is on stage weekends through May 9 in the dinner theater, 448 N. 17th St. (17th and Liberty streets), Allentown.

Dinner and a show are at 7 p.m. Fridays; 4 and 7 p.m. Surdays, and 7 p.m. on select Sundays.

In “Lucky Lindy’s Not So Lucky Landing,” world-famous aviator Lucky Lindy, played by Zach Petrovich, is scheduled to take a trip to Merriwether’s Explorers Society.

Located on a secluded tropical island, the society is based at an outpost that is a place for adventurers from all over the globe.

Audience members will meet Jon Pierre Fritzhoff (Kristofer Wills) and Henrietta von Viernerlichten (Jennifer Wills), longtime celebrity fixtures at Merriwether’s.

Also on hand is a not-so-talented wannabe movie actress Lina Lamore (Leslie Rodig).

Mabel Johnson (Syd Stauffer) is there to greet the adventuring guests right at the dock and take care of their every need.

Lindy may not be the pilot he’s cracked up to be as a series of unfortunate events befall him during his visit.

Join the wacky inhabitants of Merriwether’s Outpost and help to solve a murder in this immersive comedy where anything can happen.

“Lucky Lindy’s Not So Lucky Landing” is written and directed by Pines Dinner Theatre Artistic Director Oliver Blatt, with original music by Blatt and orchestrations by Stacy Bechtel. This show is rated PG-13.

Tickets include a reserved seat for the show. Food is available for purchase a la carte.

The menu includes chicken Caprese, honey Dijon pork, striped pangasius, shrimp skewers, beef tenderloin, fettuccine Alfredo and butternut squash and pumpkin ravioli.

Tickets: www.pinesdinnertheatre.com; 610-433-2333

NCC Theatre spring season:

After a successful virtual season in fall 2020, the Northampton Community College Theatre Department is embarking on a spring season that includes two plays and a musical.

To ensure everyone’s safety, the college is continuing with what Bill Mutimer, NCC Theatre Department head, calls “live theater in a virtual format.”

“Knowing of course, that as situations change, we may have to make adjustments,” he says.

“Citizen: An American Lyric,” written by Claudia Rankine and adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs, is Feb. 11, 12 and 13.

Mutimer, who directs, calls the play “a searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music and the visual image.”

Clair Freeman directs Edward Albee’s “At Home at the Zoo,” March 4-8.

In the 2004 play, Albee delves deeper into his first play, “The Zoo Story,” by adding a first act, “Homelife,” which precedes Peter’s fateful meeting with Jerry on a park bench in Central Park.

The 2018 Broadway musical “Head over Heels: The Musical” is April 15-18.

The jukebox musical features the songs of The Go-Gos in James Magruder’s adaption of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, the 16th-century prose romance by Sir Philip Sidney.

The hilarious plot follows the escapades of a royal family on a journey to save their kingdom from extinction, only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.

The musical will be directed by Mutimer, with musical direction by Lucille Kincaid and choreography by Tina Williams.

Tickets: ncctix.org

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