Northport's John W. Engeman Theater reopened this month with its first mainstage musical since being shut down by the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, with an encore presentation of "Smokey Joe's Café," which was performed in 2007 when the theater first opened. Marissa Sarbak reports.

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