Karen Peakes News

The Peterborough Players fifth play of the season is Garson Kanin's acclaimed comedy, BORN YESTERDAY. It debuts Wednesday, August 12th at 7:30pm.

The Peterborough Players 82nd annual summer theatre season will debut tonight, June 17th with John Logan's multi Tony Award winning play, RED.

The Peterborough Players 82nd annual summer theatre season will debut on Wednesday, June 17th with John Logan's multi Tony Award winning play, RED.

Act II Playhouse's production of UNNECESSARY FARCE by Paul Smith Slade is boisterous, funny, chaotic and a wonderfully done farce. According to a press release from Act II Playhouse, this show has 'Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. One Killer in a Kilt.' Without giving too much away, this show is about an undercover cop and a rookie cop who are prepared to take down a corrupt mayor, but just like in any good farce, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. UNNECESSARY FARCE at Act II Playhouse is a delightfully amusing show that will have audiences laughing throughout the show.

Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. One Killer in a Kilt. Act II Playhouse in Ambler presents Unnecessary Farce by Paul Slade Smith, directed by David Bradley. The zany comedy is on stage in Ambler from tonight, Feb. 24-March 20, 2015.

Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. One Killer in a Kilt. Act II Playhouse in Ambler presents Unnecessary Farce by Paul Slade Smith, directed by David Bradley. The zany comedy is on stage in Ambler from Feb. 24-March 20, 2015.

Laughter can be found at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Neil Simon's dramedy Lost in Yonkers playing today, November 11-30. Directed by Keith Baker, the ensemble cast features Joy Franz, David Nate Goldman, Bruce Graham, Eleanor Handley, Kyle Klein II, Karen Peakes, and Danny Vaccaro.

On October 27, 2014, the following nominees and award recipients were honored at the 2014 Barrymore Awards Ceremony at The Merriam Thater, produced by Theatre Philadelphia.

The 2014 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, live blogged from the Merriam Theatre!

Laughter can be found at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Neil Simon's dramedy Lost in Yonkers playing on November 11-30. Directed by Keith Baker, the ensemble cast features Joy Franz, David Nate Goldman, Bruce Graham, Eleanor Handley, Kyle Klein II, Karen Peakes, and Danny Vaccaro.

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel and a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, the hilarious whodonit opening Bristol Riverside Theatre's season tonight, September 30-October 26. Directed by Gus Kaikkonen, the ensemble cast features Dan Hodge, Matt Leisy, Karen Peakes, and Adam Sowers.

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel and a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, the hilarious whodonit opening Bristol Riverside Theatre's season on September 30-October 26. Directed by Gus Kaikkonen, the ensemble cast features Dan Hodge, Matt Leisy, Karen Peakes, and Adam Sowers.

Theatre Philadelphia is thrilled to announce the nominees for the 2014 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, including over 140 total nominations spanning 26 categories. The all-new Barrymore Awards Ceremony will be held Monday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m. at The Merriam Theater at 250 S. Broad Street, immediately followed by an After-Party in the Commonwealth Plaza at The Kimmel Center.

Tom Stoppard's autobiographical parallel The Real Thing focuses on the successful playwright Henry and his close circle of family and friends. Starring his wife, Charlotte, Henry's newest work examines the intricacies of love, honesty and infidelity. Soon, as this play within a play continues, the lines between fiction and reality start to blur. Relationships break, bend and change, as lust, deceit and selfishness take center stage, leaving us all searching for 'the real thing'.

The newest comedy to open at Act II Playhouse is Neil Simon's HOTEL SUITE. The show revolves around two unique story lines that provide a humorous glimpse into the lives of two separate couples that happened to stay in the same hotel suite. The show provides lots of laughs, but it also engages the audience in the storylines of each couple. Act II's production of HOTEL SUITE is a great way to spend an evening out and have a few laughs with friends and family.

Act II Playhouse presents Neil Simon's Hotel Suite, a greatest-hits collection of Simon's most hilarious one-act plays, from tonight, Feb. 18 - March 16, 2014.

Act II Playhouse presents Neil Simon's Hotel Suite, a greatest-hits collection of Simon's most hilarious one-act plays, from Feb. 18 - March 16, 2014.

InterAct Theatre Company will usher in 2014 with the second production of their 26th season - the Philadelphia premiere of Johnna Adams' riveting Gidion's Knot. In the play, Adams confronts us with 'perhaps the most complicated kind of 'knot' (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) as a grieving mother arrives at her son's school looking for answers following his sudden death and challenges his teacher and audiences alike to seek an answer to the age old question of nature versus nurture, as well as posing many other difficult questions.

InterAct Theatre Company will usher in 2014 with the second production of their 26th season - the Philadelphia premiere of Johnna Adams' riveting Gidion's Knot. In the play, Adams confronts us with 'perhaps the most complicated kind of 'knot' (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) as a grieving mother arrives at her son's school looking for answers following his sudden death and challenges his teacher and audiences alike to seek an answer to the age old question of nature versus nurture, as well as posing many other difficult questions.

The word 'brilliant' is the word that came to mind as I left the Arden Theatre after seeing their production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for this musical and Hugh Wheeler wrote the book. The Ingmar Bergman film, SMILE OF A SUMMER NIGHT, inspired this musical. Terrance J. Nolan directs this current production, and the Arden's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is astounding.