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Bridgeton, New Jersey, native Heather Grayberg is the Director of Programming and Development at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center, where she is responsible for curating…
The West Chester International Short Film Festival, celebrating the spirit of independent filmmaking and diverse voices from around the world, has officially announced its full…
The Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is announcing the return of its much-anticipated annual gala, Light Up the Night, set to dazzle the community…
Uptown’s popular $5 Movie Mondays are running throughout the month of July. $5 gets you the big screen, any seat in the house, a…
Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center presents the gift of theatre and celebrates a major new beginning. The West Chester performing arts organization kicks off its…
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center has named Carmen Khan its first-ever Artistic Director. With Khan at the artistic helm, Uptown! will make institutional history…
For the first time since 2019, the Wells School of Music at West Chester University will bring world-class entertainment and live jazz to the…
The Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center will be “Reelin’ in the Years” tonight, Feb. 4, as it welcomes Countdown to Ecstasy, the preeminent Steely Dan…
The Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center will celebrate a month of first-class music entertainment, starting with Cherry Cherry, a critically acclaimed Neil Diamond tribute…
One of Chester County’s boroughs is among the 100 Best Places to Live in America, according to new rankings from Livability.
Livability analyzed more…
By reopening its doors, the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center has accomplished what so many others have not since the start of the pandemic.
And…
New Year’s Eve will be here before we know it, and one thing is for sure: Revelers are ready to bid farewell to 2020…
Uptown! Entertainment Alliance has released the live stream of its recent event entitled “The Pandemic, the Economy, and the Future of Live Entertainment.”
The moderated…
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center invites you to join it for a live streaming event – “The Pandemic, the Economy, and the Future of Live Entertainment…
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is embarking on a $500,000 campaign to sustain its operations until it can open again.
As a performing arts…
The YMCA of Greater Brandywine is an association of eight YMCAs that offer life-changing sports, fitness, and educational programs for children, families, and adults…
Established in 2017, the nonprofit Uptown! Entertainment Alliance operates Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center in West Chester as a theater for live performance, education, and…
A new kind of entertainment is coming to Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center … magic.
Wednesday, June 26 will mark the first time magicians have performed…
The First Ladies of Rock & Soul are set to turn the clock back to a time and place in music history that doesn’t…
Uptown! Entertainment Alliance (UEA) has announced a new slate of officers and three new members on its Board of Directors.
The organization continues to operate…
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center in West Chester continues to grow and evolve, always adding a new layer of entertainment options.
With member and community…
Lamb McErlane
Helen H. Mountain, a partner at the firm, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Uptown! Entertainment Alliance, which operates the…
The 15th Annual West Chester International Short Film Festival will be held Friday, April 26 through Sunday, April 28 throughout the Borough of West Chester…
The Uptown Bravo Theatre, LLC (UBT) and the Uptown! Entertainment Alliance (UEA) will be receiving a Grand Jury Award from the Preservation Alliance of Greater…
The YMCA of Greater Brandywine believes that team sports are an important way to help kids develop, not only physically, but in learning important life…
The YMCA of Greater Brandywine is an association of eight YMCAs that offer life-changing sports, fitness, and educational programs for children, adults, and families…
The YMCA of Greater Brandywine – in conjunction with Director Chris Logan Harley and Uptown! Entertainment Alliance – is putting together a series of videos entitled “Don…
West Chester is once again a premier destination for entertainment this holiday season.
The borough will be home to a flurry of activity this weekend…
The Whitford Charitable Fund Committee and 10 Chester County organizations recently attended a luncheon at the Whitford Country Club to celebrate the success of the…
Over the weekend, golfers once again picked up their clubs for a good cause at the eighth annual Whitford Charitable Fund Classic at Whitford Country…
The inaugural Blues ’N Brews at Uptown! – a festival-style event that will highlight several of Pennsylvania’s favorite blues-style musicians and showcase two…
Regional theater in Greater Philadelphia has always provided great entertainment, but the latest bold experiments have lifted it to a whole new level, writes John…
Lamb McErlane attorneys Jake D. Becker, William R. Christman III, and Rachel E. Lusk were sworn into the Bar of the United States…
It wouldn’t be a new year without critics rolling out their end-of-year-favorites lists, trying to get their say in on the…
The Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center in West Chester has received the 2017 Public Impact Award from Preservation Pennsylvania, according to a report in the…
ACT in Faith of Greater West Chester and Better Than Bacon, an improvisational comedy troupe, are joining forces for “Bacon Gives Back: An Improvised Comedy…
The Resident Theatre Company has brought its award-winning, contemporary rock musical “Next to Normal” to audiences in West Chester, writes Julia Klein for the…
Harvest Dinner and Wine Tasting
Join the Chester County Futures – which provides comprehensive academic support, mentoring, and scholarships for motivated economically disadvantaged youth – for an…
The curtain has finally risen on the Resident Theatre Company’s quest to bring New York theatre to West Chester, and its inaugural production of…
Gov. Tom Wolf has approved a $200,000 grant-to-loan for the further redevelopment of the Armory in West Chester into the Uptown! Knauer…
Alongside a thriving restaurant scene, the hub of entertainment in many small towns in America is a local theater.
In Chester County, West Chester, with…
The New Year’s celebration at the refurbished West Chester armory will not only usher in 2017, but will also mark the opening of a…
The Chester County Commissioners presented a check for $50,000 to representatives from Uptown! Entertainment Alliance this week.
The funds are part of the county…
A community guardian with roots deeper than the historic armory building itself recently played a leading role in creating an exciting second act for the…
As a child, Dwayne Walton never would have imagined himself eating lunch at one of the premier country clubs in one of the most affluent…
Following the credits from a record lineup of international short films and anticipating a memorable debut at the new Uptown! Entertainment Alliance theater next year…
We’ve added Uptown! Entertainment Alliance’s high-quality video of last week’s event to our own reporting on the Daily Local News story…
The script has been a thrilling success, and now the Uptown! Entertainment Alliance is turning its attention to transforming the set for West Chester’s…
Chester County residents’ thirst for great ideas will be quenched next week when TEDxWestChester returns for its third and final event in the recent TEDx…
By Carol Quigley,
From Friday, April 22th through Sunday, April 24th, the West Chester Film Festival (WCFF) will celebrate its twelfth year of bringing the…
Local Students to Compete in the Chester County Spelling Bee
The Chester County Spelling Bee for 2016 will be held on February 8th starting at…
Carolyn Comitta, Mayor of West Chester, speaks to VISTA today about growing up in West Chester and moving to West Bradford when she was thirteen…
At the start of a new year we thought we’d take a look back at the stories that made 2015 such an exciting year…
The doors of West Chester’s historic National Guard Armory building have finally been thrown open to new ownership. The five-year journey of finding…
The opening act of the all-volunteer Uptown! Entertainment Alliance’s transformation of West Chester’s old National Guard Armory into a performance theater is…
Last night the seven members of the West Chester Borough Council voted unanimously to approve a new ordinance that provides for the creation of a…
By Kristin McLaughlin Mitchell,
When we decided to do a cabaret with professional singers from NYC and Philly once a month to build our audience…
by Kristin McLaughlin Mitchell
I moved to West Chester 3 years ago after spending over 20 years working in professional theatre in NYC as an…
The curtain is rising on a quiet but determined backstage effort to transform a historic downtown West Chester building into an exciting theatrical venue for…
TEDx will be holding its second annual event in West Chester on May 21, 2015, from 6:30-9:00 pm at the MainStage Theater…
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