Philadelphia Theatre Company News

Arden Theatre Company concludes its 2010/11 main stage season with Wanamaker's Pursuit by Rogelio Martinez, a new work commissioned as part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, inspired by the Kimmel Center.

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announces War Stories MixTix - our third installment of theme-based theatre packages aimed at giving audiences the power of choice.

Jason Robert Brown's intimate musical 'The Last Five Years' will close at The Media Theatre February 27. The one act show tells the story of an aspiring actress who meets and falls in love with a novelist. At The Media Theatre, Jennie Eisenhower portrays Cathy, the aspiring actress. Wallingford's Marcus Stevens takes on the role of the novelist, Jamie.

The Globe's revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Pam MacKinnon, will close at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Feb. 27. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

Asolo Repertory Theatre is thrilled to introduce Florida audiences to Las Meninas, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.

The New York Times reports today that following his stint in DRIVING MISS DAISY, James Earl Jones will be hanging around Broadway a bit longer, assuming the role of Arthur Hockstader in the revival of Gore Vidal's 'The Best Man.' The production is scheduled to open in the spring of 2012. Orphan's Home Cycle director Michael Wilson will helm the revival. The plot centers around chief executive Hockstader trying to decide which presidental nominees to support: William Russell and Joe Cantwell.

Due to popular demand, Florida Studio Theatre extends David Mamet's Race for a tenth week in the Keating Theatre, now playing through April 2, 2011. The extension continues the remarkable success of FST's Mainstage Season; in January, FST broke all previous sales records at the theater by exceeding 10,700 subscriptions sold to the Mainstage series.

Plays & Players (P&P), founded in 1911 by a group of forward-thinking Philadelphians, has the privilege of being one of the oldest continually operating theatres in the country.

Philadelphia Theatre Company announces a ONE-WEEK-ONLY extension of David Mamet's provocative play Race, now running through February 20 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets).

People's Light & Theatre presents Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, adapted for the stage by Laura Eason.

Act II Playhouse continues its 2010-2011 season with the first American production of The Pride of Parnell Street (March 22-April 13) by renowned Irish playwright Sebastian Barry.

Producer Jeffrey Richards announced that returning to Broadway in 2012 will be GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN.

Azuka Theatre will conclude its 11th season with the World Premiere of Jacqueline Goldfinger's the terrible girls, running March 17-April 3 at The Latvian Society, 531 N. 7th Street.

People's Light & Theatre is pleased to announce that Zak Berkman, a Founding Executive Director of New York's Epic Theatre Ensemble, and Pete Pryor, Co-Founder of Philadelphia's 1812 Productions, will join the Theatre's full-time staff in September as Associate Artistic Directors.

The Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director) production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will close on February 13. The production is directed by Marc Bruni, with choreography by Wendy Seyb.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is pleased to announce that it will launch the national tour of Second Stage Theatre's production Let Me Down Easy. This one-woman production, which is conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith (Nurse Jackie, Fires in the Mirror) and directed by Leonard Foglia (Broadway's Thurgood) and was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 of 2009, is 'a continually engaging and engrossing collection of testimonials' (The New York Times) that explores the fragility of the body and the resilience of the spirit. Let Me Down Easy closes February 13, 2011 in the Kreeger Theater.

Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of RACE, directed by Scott Zigler will close on February13 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets).

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced Bruce Norris's critically-acclaimed Clybourne Park as the final play of the company's 44th subscription season. Home is where the heart-and history-is in Clybourne Park, a 'spiky and damningly insightful new comedy' (The New York Times).

Carolyn Rossi Copeland & AG Funding will present a special invitational reading of the new musical AMAZING GRACE, with music & lyrics by Christopher Smith and book by Mr. Smith & Arthur Giron, for two performances on Thursday, February 10th and Friday, February 11th at 3 p.m. at The New 42nd Street Studios (229 West 42nd Street)

It's been 15 years since she's performed on a Bay Area stage - now Anna Deavere Smith is returning.