Kate McGrath News

Coming up, two sessions of acting classes at Walking Fish Theatre! Fun with Acting, a beginner's acting class for kids ages 7-10 and: Acting for Teens, ages 11-17. Both Fun with Acting andActing for Teens start Saturday, October 19 and go until Saturday, November 23, 2013 (see exact dates below) at Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19125. Times for Fun with Acting: 10:00am-11:15am. Times for Acting for Teens: 11:30am-12:45pm. Cost is $60 for 6 weeks.

The Centre Theater presents its annual spotlight on regionally recognized work and new theatre, The Independent Voices Festival. In it is 4th year, the festival spotlights performers who deserve an encore performance or who have new work to bring to the stage. The three festival highlights fur premieres and performances from four regionally recognized solo performance artists.

The Centre Theater presents its annual spotlight on regionally recognized work and new theatre, The Independent Voices Festival. In it is 4th year, the festival spotlights performers who deserve an encore performance or who have new work to bring to the stage. The three festival highlights fur premieres and performances from four regionally recognized solo performance artists.

Originally directed by Cheryl Crawford, WEEP FOR THE VIRGINS' cast featured Group actors John Garfield, Phoebe Brand, Margaret Barker, Ruth Nelson, J.E. Bromberg and more. Nellise Child's play makes a one night return to the New York stage to celebrate it's first ever publication in The 'Lost' Group Theatre Plays: Vol II.

On Monday, August 6th, 2012, at 7 PM, ReGroup Theatre presents the first fully-staged public reading of Nellise Child's 'bitter comedy' WEEP FOR THE VIRGINS in 77 years. The reading celebrates the first-ever publication of the play, along with the first publication of Robert Ardrey's Casey Jones and Mr. Ardrey's classic Group play Thunder Rock. Weep for the Virgins will be performed one night only by the ReGroup on The Irish Rep's Mainstage. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

Originally directed by Cheryl Crawford, WEEP FOR THE VIRGINS' cast featured Group actors John Garfield, Phoebe Brand, Margaret Barker, Ruth Nelson, J.E. Bromberg and more. Nellise Child's play makes a one night return to the New York stage to celebrate it's first ever publication in The 'Lost' Group Theatre Plays: Vol II.

This summer the producers of the infamous marathon London tour of Jackson's Way: The London Jacksathon! (January 2011), will pepper the festivals of Britain with new shows and past hits as well as travelling further afield.

Philadelphia Theatre Workshop continues to be an incubator for Philadelphia playwrights with the 4th Annual PlayShop Festival this spring.

Philadelphia Theatre Workshop continues to be an incubator for Philadelphia playwrights with the 4th Annual PlayShop Festival this spring.

Philadelphia Theatre Workshop continues to be an incubator for Philadelphia playwrights with the 4th Annual PlayShop Festival this spring.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights and InterAct Theatre Company have joined together once again to present the 2011 Young Voices High School Monologue Festival from February 16 - 19 at The Adrienne Theater (2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia).

Philadelphia Young Playwrights and InterAct Theatre Company have joined together once again to present the 2011 Young Voices High School Monologue Festival from February 16 - 19 at The Adrienne Theater (2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia).

The first podcast in Fuel Theatre's monthly Everyday Moments series will be recorded by Foster's 'Comedy God' award-winner, artist and founder of Frank Chickens, Kazuko Hohki.

Twelve of Britain's most inspiring artists and performers will each record a podcast, to be listened to at a particular time of day, and in a particular place, in a new project from Fuel.

The first podcast in Fuel Theatre's monthly Everyday Moments series will be recorded by Foster's 'Comedy God' award-winner, artist and founder of Frank Chickens, Kazuko Hohki.

The producers of Sound&Fury's Kursk (Young Vic & UK tour 2009/10), Requardt & Rosenberg's Electric Hotel (Sadler's Wells & UK tour 2010), and Inua Ellams' The 14th Tale (National Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe & UK tour 2010), kick off a new season of work full of treats.

Twelve of Britain's most inspiring artists and performers will each record a podcast, to be listened to at a particular time of day, and in a particular place, in a new project from Fuel.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights kicks off the 2010-11 Play Development Series with New Voices: Workshop Productions of students plays and monologues, an annual presentation of student work, in collaboration with Temple University.

On Thursday 10 June 2010 Will Young will join The Feeling and the Olivier award winning Spring Awakening cast to perform at CHANGING LANDSCAPES, CHANGING LIVES - a party to celebrate the launch of the Lyric Hammersmith's £15 million capital project that will transform the landscape of Hammersmith and the lives of thousands of disadvantaged young West Londoners.

On Thursday 10 June 2010 Janet Ellis (lifelong Lyric supporter and Board Member) and Andy Nyman (Ghost Stories, 2010) will host Light Up the Lyric's Future - a party to celebrate the launch of the Lyric Hammersmith's £15 million capital project that will transform the landscape of Hammersmith and the lives of thousands of disadvantaged young West Londoners.