8 DAYS A WEEK: Your look at Valley Arts Tweet Published April 16. 2022 12:58AM “Hairspray” has been postponed from 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. April 16 until Feb. 18, 2023, State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton. Tickets for the original dates will be honored. John Waters wrote and directed the 1988 movie, with scenes filmed at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom, South Whitehall Township. Waters was creative consultant for the 2002 Broadway musical, adapted for a 2007 movie and 2016 live television production. Songs include “Welcome to the 60s,” “Good Morning, Baltimore” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat.” The Broadway musical received eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and was the longest-running musical at the Neil Simon Theater, with 2,642 performances July 18, 2002 - Jan. 4, 2009. Above, from left, Andrew Levitt aka Nina West (Edna Turnblad), Niki Metcalf (Tracy Turnblad) and Toneisha Harris (Motormouth Maybelle). Tickets: State Theatre box office, 453 Northampton St., Easton; www.statetheatre.org; 1-800-999-7828 Trace Adkins, 8 p.m. April 22, Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe. Doors open at 7 p.m. “The The Way I Wanna Go Tour” celebrates Adkins’ latest album and 25th anniversary as a country music, movie and TV star. The concert is postponed from Oct. 15, 2021. Previous tickets are honored for the new date. Adkins, a Sarepta, La., native, first album was “Dreamin’ Out Loud” (1996). He has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country chart, including the No. One hits “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing” (1997), “Ladies Love Country Boys” (2007) and “You’re Gonna Miss This” (2008). He has sold more than 11 million albums. On his latest, Adkins collaborates with Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Melissa Etheridge, Snoop Dog, Keb’ Mo,’ Pitbull and Stevie Wonder. Tickets: box office, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe.; www.ticketmaster.com; Ticketmaster: 800-745-3000; 866-605-PEAK Touchstone Theatre, and Moravian University offer “Wish You Were Here: Zion,” an audio tour created by Touchstone-Moravian MFA student Sara Group, available for listening online, and “Who Wants to Be Matt?,” directed by Touchstone-Moravian MFA student Matt Prideaux, 6:30 p.m. April 23. Above, from left: 2022 Touchstone-Moravian Master of Fine Arts students Abbie Jean Litman, Jessica Boothe, Matt Prideaux and Sara Group. Information: www.saragroupprojects.com; touchstone.org, 610-867-1689 CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY MARC J. FRANKLIN CONTRIBUTED PHOTO CONTRIBUTED PHOTO TOUCHSTONE THEATRE
