(9 hours, 35 minutes ago) - Plays & Players, Center City Philadelphia's longest continually operated theater at 1714 Delancey Place, will present the world premiere of Early in the Mourning, running November 5 - November 22 in the 3rd Floor Skinner Studio.
(9 hours, 35 minutes ago) - York Little Theatre is proud to present Broadway’s classic musical fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, which will run from November 6 – 22, 2009. The production features the music of Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. Beauty and the Beast is based on the 1991 Academy Award winning feature film of the same name and was nominated for 9 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score.
(10 hours, 5 minutes ago) - Amaryllis Theatre Company opens its 2009-2010 season with Samuel Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, from November 10 through 22 at Amaryllis Theatre Company's home in The Playground at the Adrienne (2030 Sansom Street).
(10 hours, 35 minutes ago) - Theatre Exile invites you to explore your carnal cravings with the Philadelphia premiere of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers. Directed by co-artistic director Deborah Block, Hunter Gatherers runs October 29th through November 22nd at the Adrienne Theatre (mainstage). Hunter Gatherers is recommended for mature audiences.
(Nov. 21 9:44 AM) - On Saturday November 21, 2009, Giovanni's Room and the Lambda Literary Foundation will be hosting a Read-a-thon fundraiser at Giovanni's Room bookstore in Philadelphia.
(Nov. 21 2:00 AM) - The Town and Country Players continue their Family Theater season with the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, opening on November 6th, running for three weekends through November 21st at their venue in Buckingham
(Nov. 21 1:30 AM) - Philadelphia Theatre Workshop opens its sixth season with a classic example of its new mission. After last season, the professional company decided to dedicate itself to producing premieres of work by local playwrights.
(Nov. 20 4:50 PM) - Responding to the popular demand for tickets, Philadelphia Theatre Company is extending its production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazz, until Sunday, December 13.
(Nov. 20 4:48 PM) - Responding to the popular demand for tickets, Philadelphia Theatre Company is extending its production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazz, until Sunday, December 13. Performances for the extension week will follow the current schedule, with shows on Tuesdays at 6:30, Wednesdays at 1:00 and 7:00, Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00, Saturdays at 2:00 and 8:00, and Sundays at 3:00.
(Nov. 20 12:07 PM) - York Little Theatre is proud to present an original production of the holiday classic, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which runs December 11 - 20, 2009 as the opening production in its rabbittransit children's series.
(Nov. 20 9:18 AM) - Lantern Theater Company celebrates the holidays with the Philadelphia Premiere of Bill Irwin and Mark O'Donnell's brilliant and innovative adaptation of Molière's Scapin, which takes the master's characteristic sharp-witted comedy and soaks it in vaudevillian clowning.
(Nov. 20 2:30 AM) - Do you remember the Hershey trolley? Did you know that the Hershey Bears used to have a poster girl? Anyone remember walking to school across corn fields, Mexican jumping beans or seeing their sweetheart off to war?
(Nov. 20 2:30 AM) - When a long-lost husband and father returns home to find his wife about to remarry, hilarity ensues in a staged reading of Marvin Harold Cheiten's 2006 comedy, Miss Connections.
(Nov. 18 3:44 PM) - The State Theatre, Easton PA kicks off the 2009 Holiday season with the national tour of the family favorite ANNIE, followed by the Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Extravaganza, Danu: Christmas in Ireland, the Jimmy Sturr Holiday Spectacular and the annual tradition, The Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker.
(Nov. 18 2:50 PM) - PHIT Executive Director Greg Maughan will moderate a panel discussion on the business of comedy writing at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday, November 19 from 6 pm to 7 pm at The Kelly Writers House. Accompanying Maughan in this discussion will be local Philadelphia comedians and comedy writers Gregg Gethard, Doogie Horner and Meg Favreau (there may be a surprise guest or two as well - but nothing is confirmed).
(Nov. 18 2:09 PM) - According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the newly reestablished Devon Theatre in Philadelphia has been forced to cancel their inaugural season after having lost funding from the state. Their current production of JOSEPH...DREAMCOAT will end its run December 13th. The theater, currently overseen by the Mayfair Community Development Corporation, completed productions of Nunsense, The Odd Couple, and Little Shop of Horrors as season openers this year.
(Nov. 18 1:30 AM) - People's Light & Theatre Company presents SNOW WHITE, by Kathryn Petersen, with music and lyrics written by Michael Ogborn, from November 18, 2009 to January 3, 2010 on the Main Stage. Pete Pryor directs. SNOW WHITE is one of three shows in the Target Family Discovery Series and is sponsored by ING.