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GOING VIRAL Festival Continues


To combat theatre's closing amid Coronavirus, Maladjusted presents: Going Viral Festival. Only on Facebook.com, every Wednesday thru Saturday. They have released to following statement: 

Philadelphia Playwrights to Take Part in Facebook Live Short Play Festival


Paige Zubel and Eleanor Safer have released the following statement regarding their Facebook Live Short Play Festival:

Love Drunk Life Brings Two Shows To Philly Fringe


Production company Love Drunk Life will bring two shows to this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival. First up will be The Murder & Booze Cabaret, opening September 6th at the Arden Theater Hamilton Family Arts Center. The show recently enjoyed a run in the New Jersey Fringe Festival.

The Murder & Booze Cabaret Will Play Jersey Fringe


The Murder & Booze Cabaret, produced by Love Drunk Life, will play the Jersey Fringe Festival from August 2 - 4. Originally commissioned in 2015 as a part of the One Book New Canaan Project, The Murder & Booze Cabaret features real and real-crazy drunken tales of fame and violence from the 1920s fused with jazzy riffs on modern pop songs for a night of high notes, low blows, and bespoke cocktails. Devised by Katie Frazer and Brandon Monokian and directed by Shamus Hunter McCarty, the show will star Allison Boyle, Camille E. Young and Sam Kwietniak. Kwietniak will also provide musical arrangements for the show.

BWW Previews: CLOSE YOUR LEGS, HONEY at Bootless Stageworks


The 2018 Philly Fringe sensation, Close Your Legs, Honey, prissy walks into Bootless Stageworks for a limited engagement. See the show critics and audiences raved about as being, '...one hell of a new musical.'

Troy Foundry Theatre To Present CATASTROPHE CARNIVALE: AN EVENING OF BECKETT SHORTS


The Troy Foundry Theatre, a 501(c)3 professional theatre company in Troy, NY, will present CATASTROPHE CARNIVALE: AN EVENING OF BECKETT SHORTS in the historic Gasholder building in Troy, NY Sept. 20-30, 2018.

Troy Foundry Theatre To Present CATASTROPHE CARNIVALE: AN EVENING OF BECKETT SHORTS


The Troy Foundry Theatre, a 501(c)3 professional theatre company in Troy, NY, will present CATASTROPHE CARNIVALE: AN EVENING OF BECKETT SHORTS in the historic Gasholder building in Troy, NY Sept. 20-30, 2018.

Troy Foundry Theatre To Present CATASTROPHE CARNIVALE: AN EVENING OF BECKETT SHORTS


The Troy Foundry Theatre, a 501(c)3 professional theatre company in Troy, NY, will present CATASTROPHE CARNIVALE: AN EVENING OF BECKETT SHORTS in the historic Gasholder building in Troy, NY Sept. 20-30, 2018.

Philly Improv Theater Presents Unprecedented Nine Comedy Shows In Fringe Festival


Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) announces that they will have nine shows as part of the 2018 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. PHIT most recently participated in the 2017 Festival in their home at the Adrienne Theater. 'We are showcasing many of our longtime performers challenging themselves in new ways. We are also welcoming artists new to the theater to bridge the worlds of alternative and traditional comedy,' said Mike Marbach, acting artistic director of the theater.

Philly Improv Theater Presents Unprecedented Nine Comedy Shows In Fringe Festival


Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) announces that they will have nine shows as part of the 2018 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. PHIT most recently participated in the 2017 Festival in their home at the Adrienne Theater. 'We are showcasing many of our longtime performers challenging themselves in new ways. We are also welcoming artists new to the theater to bridge the worlds of alternative and traditional comedy,' said Mike Marbach, acting artistic director of the theater.

Philly Improv Theater Presents Unprecedented Nine Comedy Shows In Fringe Festival


Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) announces that they will have nine shows as part of the 2018 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. PHIT most recently participated in the 2017 Festival in their home at the Adrienne Theater. 'We are showcasing many of our longtime performers challenging themselves in new ways. We are also welcoming artists new to the theater to bridge the worlds of alternative and traditional comedy,' said Mike Marbach, acting artistic director of the theater.

Kimmel Center Announces Local Casting For World Premiere Of Cristal Palace And Philadelphia Premiere Of SEA (Singular Extreme Actions)


The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is honored to announce that Philadelphia artists, including Center City Jazz Festival Creative Director Ernest Stuart, will join the traveling troupes from Transe Express and STREB during the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). Various local dancers and actors will join Ernest Stuart during the World Premiere of Transe Express's Cristal Palace, direct from France, on the banks of the Schuylkill River June 1-10, 2018. West Philadelphia native DJ Matthew Law will add his party rocking musical stylings to the Philadelphia Premiere of STREB's SEA (Singular Extreme Actions) June 5-7, 2018 in the Perelman Theater.

Photo Flash: EgoPo Classic Theater Presents LYDIE BREEZE TRILOGY


The pinnacle of EgoPo's 25th Anniversary season and its season-long John Guare Festival will be seeing Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy in one of two marathon formats. EgoPo is collaborating with Guare to present all three plays, now titled Cold Harbor, Aipotu, and Madaket Road in a consecutive cycle, with music by Jay Ansill and Cynthia Hopkins. This epic piece of theater about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of the 20th-century, runs from April 25-May 6. During this time, there will be two opportunities to see the trilogy over three consecutive evenings, and four opportunities to see all three plays in one day.

EgoPo Classic Theater Moves Into Marathon Performances Of LYDIE BREEZE TRILOGY


The pinnacle of EgoPo's 25th Anniversary season and its season-long John Guare Festival will be seeing Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy in one of two marathon formats. EgoPo is collaborating with Guare to present all three plays, now titled Cold Harbor, Aipotu, and Madaket Road in a consecutive cycle, with music by Jay Ansill and Cynthia Hopkins. This epic piece of theater about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of the 20th-century, runs from April 25-May 6. During this time, there will be two opportunities to see the trilogy over three consecutive evenings, and four opportunities to see all three plays in one day.

EgoPo Stages Final Part Of Lydie Breeze Trilogy 4/11-22


The initial run of EgoPo Classic Theater's epic presentation of John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy comes to a close in April. The pinnacle of EgoPo's 25th Anniversary season and its season-long John Guare Festival, this epic piece of theater about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of the 20th-century, moves into its final part. EgoPo produced three separate production runs of each part of the trilogy, which will be followed by two weeks of three-day marathons and four opportunities for single-day marathons. EgoPo is collaborating with Guare to present all three plays, now titled Cold Harbor, Aipotu, and Madaket Road in a consecutive cycle, with music by Jay Ansill and Cynthia Hopkins.

EgoPo Classic Theatre's Lydie Breeze Trilogy Continues with Part II: AIPOTU


EgoPo Classic Theater's 25th Anniversary season and its season-long John Guare Festival is heating up as Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, moves to into Part II: Aipotu. EgoPo is tackling this epic piece of theater about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of the 20th-century, with three separate production runs of each part of the trilogy, followed by two weeks of three-day marathons and four opportunities for full day marathons.

EgoPo Classic Theater's Lydia Breeze Series Begins with COLD HARBOR


EgoPo Classic Theater's 25th Anniversary season devoted to John Guare is now in full swing. Coming up is the highlight of this season-long John Guare Festival: Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, to be presented in its entirety for the very first time. EgoPo is tackling this epic piece of theatre about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, with three separate production runs of each part of the trilogy, followed by two weeks of three-day marathons and four opportunities for full day marathons.

BWW Review: THE FANTASTICKS at the Eagle Theatre


Co-Artistic director Ed Corsi combines an old-fashion love story with a classic musical theatre feel while winning the audience in a very personal way.

The Cast of Eagle Theatre's THE FANTASTICKS Supports Arts Education


Eagle Theatre's THE FANTASTICKS hosts a cast full of arts education advocates. Paul Weagraff, a professional actor hailing from Wilmington, Delaware, has appeared in six Eagle Theatre productions. Currently starring in THE FANTASTICKS, his view on the importance of arts education spans far beyond the theatre itself. Weagraff states, As a former history teacher, integrating the arts into my classes engaged students that otherwise would have been marginalized, and infused energy and enthusiasm into topics that, to them, seemed distant and irrelevant.

THE FANTASTICKS to Bring Family Friendly Holiday Fare to The Eagle Theatre


The 2017 season comes to an end as Eagle Theatre serves up family friendly holiday fair with the world's longest running musical, THE FANTASTICKS.

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