Michelle Pauls News

Presented by Née Danse/Theatre, An Unfinished Herstory promises to be an inspiring tribute to the strength, resilience, and creativity of women in the arts.

 Following a review of applications, PlayPenn has shared the names of the twenty-nine emerging writers that make up the very first Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn.

Simpatico Theatre and Jouska PlayWorks, an assembly of Black playwrights whose goal is to create theatre that enriches, entertains, empowers, and awakens the moral conscience, is proud to announce the first ever Jouska PlayWorks Virtual New Play Showcase, featuring excerpts from seven new plays created by Jouska artists.

Iron Age Theatre & The Producer's Fund announces a one-day live reading performance of THE INVENTOR,  an experimental full length play about a brilliant but troubled immigrant on the verge of inventing something to change all of humankind, by Daniella Vinitski.

The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, whose mission is to produce the works of absurdist playwrights and authors from around the globe, once again turns to The Onion, America's Finest News Source for its annual fundraiser for the 9th year running. Intimate L'Etage Cabaret will host the event, celebrating the on-line weekly satirical news source known for its outrageous and absurd humor on Sunday, May 20, 2018. Raw Onion: Comfort Food will have two performances at 6 pm and 8 pm.

ReVamp Collective in co-production with Plays & Players presents '12 Chairs' by John O'Hara running November 9th through 19th.

PlayPenn, Philadelphia's nationally recognized professional new play development organization, presents the first event in a new play reading series to be held at The Drake. Located at 1512 Spruce Street, the newly renovated Drake houses two theatres and will be home to PlayPenn alongside resident partners Azuka Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company, Inis Nua Theatre Company, and Simpatico Theatre Project. The reading series Philly Plays @ The Drake, will involve fourteen local playwrights, fourteen local directors, and over 80 local actors in a communal celebration of the vibrant new play scene from January through June, 2016.

Society Hill Playhouse presents Lafferty's Wake, an Irish-style comedy with lots of audience involvement.

Fresh off of four Barrymore Award nominations, Philadelphia Artists' Collective returns with The Captive by Edouard Bourdet, from September 1 through 20, 2015, during the 2015 Philadelphia FringeArts Festival. This well-mannered tragedy will tackle issues of sex, domesticity and class manners. Deeply controversial in its time, productions of this 1926 play were censored, and its producers and actors jailed. The Captive will be produced inside Society Hill's Physick House at 321 S. 4th Street. The historic townhouse in fact will be the perfect co-conspirator as the secrets and heated private moments unfold. PAC co-founding Artistic Director Dan Hodge directs the talented cast led by well-known Rachel Brodeur and newcomer Chase Byrd.

Fresh off of four Barrymore Award nominations, Philadelphia Artists' Collective returns with The Captive by Edouard Bourdet, from September 1 through 20, 2015, during the 2015 Philadelphia FringeArts Festival. This well-mannered tragedy will tackle issues of sex, domesticity and class manners. Deeply controversial in its time, productions of this 1926 play were censored, and its producers and actors jailed. The Captive will be produced inside Society Hill's Physick House at 321 S. 4th Street. The historic townhouse in fact will be the perfect co-conspirator as the secrets and heated private moments unfold. PAC co-founding Artistic Director Dan Hodge directs the talented cast led by well-known Rachel Brodeur and newcomer Chase Byrd.

Society Hill Playhouse will present LAFFERTY'S WAKE, an Irish-style comedy with lots of audience involvement. The interactive Irish comedy returns to the Society Hill Playhouse Cabaret for a limited run.

Society Hill Playhouse presents a Philadelphia Premiere of humorous essays about our take on Christmas--theatre for the holidays! HOLIDAYS ON ICE from the twisted and brilliant mind of one of America's leading storytellers, David Sedaris. Dates for HOLIDAYS ON ICE run tonight, December 12-21, 2014 (specific show dates and times listed below).

Society Hill Playhouse presents a Philadelphia Premiere of humorous essays about our take on Christmas--theatre for the holidays! HOLIDAYS ON ICE from the twisted and brilliant mind of one of America's leading storytellers, David Sedaris. Dates for HOLIDAYS ON ICE run December 12-21, 2014 (specific show dates and times listed below). Ticket prices are $20.00 and include one drink (wine, beer or soda) and can be purchased through the Society Hill Playhouse website: www.societyhillplayhouse.org or at the door of the theatre on the day of the show. Society Hill Playhouse is located at 507 S Eighth Street, Philadelphia PA 19147.

South Camden Theatre Company, a nonprofit professional theatre company located in Camden, New Jersey continues its ninth season titled "Everything's Relative" with the world premiere of EXPRESS TRACKS written by Joseph M. Paprzycki and directed by Lee Kiszonas. The cast includes Daniel Tobin, Damien Wallace, Michelle Pauls and Eric Carter and Mets Suber.

B. Someday Productions, located at Walking Fish Theatre in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, launch a new initiative serving Navajo youth in New Mexico today. The Navajo Summer Arts Camp serves Navajo children and youth, ages 5-18, residing in the eastern area of the Navajo Nation and/or in area of the Thoreau Community Center, Thoreau, NM where the camp is sponsored. The camp also serves Navajo elders and parents of the children and youth.

B. Someday Productions and Walking Fish Theatre team up with the Historical Society of Frankford and Hidden City Philadelphia for a special event! It's a Wine Tasting and Soundscape-Hearing Evening at one of Philadelphia's hidden historical treasures, Historical Society of Frankford, 1507 Orthodox Street tonight, June 25, 2013 starting at 6:30pm and going until 9:00pm. The cost is a suggested donation of $20 for both wine and the exhibit. Enjoy a glass of wine in the bucolic gardens adjoining the Historical Society of Frankford, then venture downstairs to experience the soundscape installation amongst the historical artifacts as part of the Hidden City Philadelphia Data Garden.

B. Someday at Walking Fish Theatre is holding a season-ending Cabaret Fundraiser to help raise money to pay off the last of the theatre's productions for 2012-13. Tonight, June 22, 2013 starting at 8:00pm, the theatre will hold a variety of acts. Tickets are $25.00 and include alcoholic beverages as well as the entertainment. There will be raffle items ranging from dinner at Fishtown restaurants, to massage sessions to theatre tickets.

B. Someday Productions and Walking Fish Theatre team up with the Historical Society of Frankford and Hidden City Philadelphia for a special event! It's a Wine Tasting and Soundscape-Hearing Evening at one of Philadelphia's hidden historical treasures, Historical Society of Frankford, 1507 Orthodox Street on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 starting at 6:30pm and going until 9:00pm. The cost is a suggested donation of $20 for both wine and the exhibit. Enjoy a glass of wine in the bucolic gardens adjoining the Historical Society of Frankford, then venture downstairs to experience the soundscape installation amongst the historical artifacts as part of the Hidden City Philadelphia Data Garden.

B. Someday Productions, located at Walking Fish Theatre in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, announces a new initiative serving Navajo youth in New Mexico, starting this summer. The Navajo Summer Arts Camp will serve Navajo children and youth, ages 5-18, residing in the eastern area of the Navajo Nation and/or in area of the Thoreau Community Center, Thoreau, NM where the camp will be sponsored. The camp will also serve Navajo elders and parents of the children and youth.