InterAct Theatre Company and the New York based company, The One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF) today announce their joint presentation of the First Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival, to be performed tonight, July 29th-31st 2013 at 8:00 PM EST. Following sold-out performances in a dozen other cities, this festival serves as the culmination of a yearlong collaboration between the two companies after engaging in community and consensus building workshop sessions with local artists since August of 2012.
InterAct Theatre Company and the New York based company, The One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF) today announce their joint presentation of the First Philadelphia One-Minute Play Festival, to be performed on July 29th-31st 2013 at 8:00 PM EST. Following sold-out performances in a dozen other cities, this festival serves as the culmination of a yearlong collaboration between the two companies after engaging in community and consensus building workshop sessions with local artists since August of 2012.
Plays & Players' 2013-14 season focuses on brothers and sisters; those with whom we are closest, those who share our blood, and those with whom, familiar or unknown, we seek connection. Through rituals old and new, we continue searching for those who are both distant from and deeply within us as we attempt to unwrap the simplest of notions: brotherhood.
With works that celebrate the solstice to performances inside a Chinese Restaurant, the 4th annual SoLow Festival is experimenting with the theme of "Loners and Rebels." SoLow Festival is an inexpensive artistic event dedicated to presenting new and experimental work in a collective manner. With over twenty performing artists June 20th to 30th, SoLow focuses on the artistic creation and growth of solo artists conceiving new work with low or no-cost risk. The productions will be presented at a variety of non-traditional venues throughout the city (and one in Cincinnati, OH). Audiences and artists are invited to experience the original, unique, and experimental of SoLow Festival with affordable Pay What You Can performances.
Plays & Players presents the The America Play & Other American Cousins, an experimental examination of the the missing side of American history, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, combines questions on race and family with biting wit in the final production of 2012-13 Season. Now with FOUR additional performances!
Composer and lyricist and Philadelphia native Michael Friedman will headline special events for Plays & Players' extended rock musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Pre-show talks, performances, and post-show talkbacks range from topics of musical theater, history, and Native American life surrounding Philadelphia premiere production.
The multiple Tony nominee and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle winning high-octane rock musical BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON will explode on Plays & Players' mainstage tonight, January 17-February 3 in a Philadelphia premiere production.
The multiple Tony nominee and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle winning high-octane rock musical BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON will explode on Plays & Players' mainstage January 17-February 3 in a Philadelphia premiere production.
It's hard to shock theatergoers these days unless you bring in politics. Plays & Players opens its new season with The American Presidency: A Theatrical Response, a play festival of, by and for the 2012 presidential election. Combining elements of commentary, critique, parody and direct response, The American Presidency, presents more theatrical experiences than we have political parties.
It's hard to shock theatergoers these days unless you bring in politics. Plays & Players opens its new season with The American Presidency: A Theatrical Response, a play festival of, by and for the 2012 presidential election. Combining elements of commentary, critique, parody and direct response, The American Presidency, presents more theatrical experiences than we have political parties.
Plays and Players, South Camden Theatre Company, and Iron Age Theatre are collaborating to bring Voices of a People's History of the United States to the Philadelphia regional stage October 21, 27, and November 10.
Quince Productions re-teams with beloved storyteller and performer R. Eric Thomas for the world premiere of Always the Bridesmaid, a new solo show that takes on love, marriage equality and the next best thing.
Quince Productions re-teams with beloved storyteller and performer R. Eric Thomas for the world premiere of Always the Bridesmaid, a new solo show that takes on love, marriage equality and the next best thing.
Plays & Players celebrates their 100th Anniversary on May 14 at 7pm with a staged reading of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband featuring local celebrities of stage, screen, politics, and more. An Ideal Husband was first performed on Plays & Players' stage in the Spring of 1912, exactly 100 years ago.
Plays & Players celebrates their 100th Anniversary on May 14 at 7pm with a staged reading of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband featuring local celebrities of stage, screen, politics, and more. An Ideal Husband was first performed on Plays & Players' stage in the Spring of 1912, exactly 100 years ago. Tickets to this event are $25 for general admission or $50 for general admission and a "meet-the-artist" post-show reception from 9pm-10pm. Prior to the performance, there will be a pre-show reception and silent auction, with doors opening at 6pm.
The Philadelphia Dramatists Center Residency at Plays & Players presents the Philadelphia Playwright Showcase from April 25-28 at 7:00pm. The 2012 playwrights includeJeff Stanley, Jeremy Gable, and Brian Grace-Duff.
Plays & Players presents Joe Turner's Come and Gone, written by two time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson, widely considered the greatest African-American playwright of the 20th Century.
For the fourth straight season, Plays & Players presents a world premiere by a local playwright that asks the questions vital to our city and our contemporary lives as citizens.
For the fourth straight season, Plays & Players presents a world premiere by a local playwright that asks the questions vital to our city and our contemporary lives as citizens.
For the fourth straight season, Plays & Players presents a world premiere by a local playwright that asks the questions vital to our city and our contemporary lives as citizens.
