The Ware Center for the Arts, 42 N. Prince St., Lancaster, will present "Showtunes With Reji Woods" on Saturday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m.

Lancaster performer, actor, and director Reji Woods will host a cabaret-style performance of Broadway love songs. Woods holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theater from the University of Central Florida Conservatory Theatre. He has performed throughout the United States as well as in Paris, Amsterdam, and India. Woods is the co-founder and owner of Bending Threads Cabaret Company, based in New York, N.Y., and the founder of Reji Woods Productions, based in Lancaster. He has an extensive acting career, from Broadway to television shows like "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." He has also appeared in the independent film "The Karaoke King"; the award-winning short film "Moving Violation"; and DVD stage recordings of "Jonah," "Noah," "Moses," and "Voices of Christmas," all produced by Sight & Sound Theatres.

The concert is part of the "Lancaster Loves" series, featuring local music across a variety of genres in an intimate cabaret setting.

The Ware Center will also present "The Jane Austen Playlist: Love and Music of Regency England" on Friday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.

The performance is a collection of narrated vignettes from Austen's six published novels, paired with the music contained in the Austen Family Music Books. The fully staged production incorporates a cast of narrators, singers, and instrumentalists on a stage that depicts an 18th-century drawing room. Laura Klein, a Jane Austen scholar and founder of the Jane Austen Playlist, will be one of the performers.

Klein is a performer, educator, and musicologist specializing in early keyboard music and performance practice. Klein's research centers on 18th-century British keyboard music and the dissemination of music of the British Isles. She founded the Jane Austen Playlist in 2019. In addition to her research on the scores themselves, she examines their impact on Austen's literary output through historical, ethnographic, and performance practice considerations.

A doctoral candidate in historical musicology and performance practice at The University of Colorado Boulder, Klein holds degrees in piano performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., and Mars Hill University in Mars Hill, N.C. She is an alumna of Brevard Music Center and the International Scholar Laureate Program through the Juilliard School of Music. She is a former faculty member at Westminster Choir College and Conservatory of Music, the American Boychoir School, and Walla Walla University and currently serves on faculty at The University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado Christian University in Colorado.

For information on accessibility services, including sensory-friendly accomodations, email Barry Kornhauser at Barry.Kornhauser@millersville.edu.

To purchase tickets for either performance, visit http://www.artsmu.com, call 717-871-7600, or visit the Ware Center or the Student Memorial Center box office on the Millersville University campus.