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The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 201st season with a masterful new staging of Lionel Bart's OLIVER!

The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 201st season with a masterful new staging of Lionel Bart's OLIVER!

Following a 2009 Drama Desk nomination for Jan Maxwell in last season's Scenes From An Execution by Howard Barker, PTP/NYC, formerly known as The Potomac Theatre Project, in association with Middlebury College, proudly presents its 23rd repertory season, its 3rd consecutive in NY. This season's menu includes the U.S. Premiere of The Europeans, written by Howard Barker and directed by PTP's Co-Artistic Director Richard Romagnoli (Barker's 'American ally'), and Therese Raquin, written by Neal Bell and directed by PTP's Co-Artistic Director Jim Petosa.

Following a 2009 Drama Desk nomination for Jan Maxwell in last season's Scenes From An Execution by Howard Barker, PTP/NYC, formerly known as The Potomac Theatre Project, in association with Middlebury College, proudly presents its 23rd repertory season, its 3rd consecutive in NY.

Following a 2009 Drama Desk nomination for Jan Maxwell in last season's Scenes From An Execution by Howard Barker, PTP/NYC, formerly known as The Potomac Theatre Project, in association with Middlebury College, proudly presents its 23rd repertory season, its 3rd consecutive in NY.

'You Can't Stop the Beat' or the excitement as HAIRSPRAY hits Philly with a fresh new production.

The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 200th anniversary season with HAIRSPRAY. This all-new production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show explodes onto the Walnut stage with toe-tappin' hits including 'You Can't Stop the Beat' and 'Welcome to the 60s.' HAIRSPRAY brings big songs, big hair and even bigger dreams to life this holiday season.

The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) will present the world premiere of 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls,' an original play with music and dance about Anita Berber, from November 19 to December 21 at Clemente Soto Velez, 107 Suffolk Street.

The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 200th anniversary season with HAIRSPRAY. This all-new production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show explodes onto the Walnut stage with toe-tappin' hits including 'You Can't Stop the Beat' and 'Welcome to the 60s.' HAIRSPRAY brings big songs, big hair and even bigger dreams to life this holiday season.

A musical that takes you back to a time when life was simple and love was grand.

The Walnut Street Theatre opens its landmark 200th anniversary season with STATE FAIR.

The Walnut Street Theatre opens its landmark 200th anniversary season with STATE FAIR.

The Potomac Theatre Project, currently presenting their 22nd repertory season, have added two additional performances of Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution, which features Broadway star Jan Maxwell in her 3rd collaboration with PTP.

The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) proudly presents its 22nd repertory season (and its second consecutive in NY) that includes Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution (featuring Broadway star Jan Maxwell in her 3rd collaboration with PTP), Sarah Kane's Crave, and the NY Premiere of Neal Bell's Somewhere in the Pacific.

The Walnut's 'Les Miz' is a fresh new vision of the world's most popular musical.

The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) is presenting its 21st repertory season (and its first in New York), which includes three of Anthony Minghella's early works in an evening entitled Politics of Passion: The Plays of Anthony Minghella, and Howard Barker's provocative No End of Blame

The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) will present its 21st repertory season (and its first in New York) that includes three of Anthony Minghella's early works in an evening entitled Politics of Passion: The Plays of Anthony Minghella, and Howard Barker's provocative No End of Blame

The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) will present its 21st repertory season (and its first in New York) that includes three of Anthony Minghella's early works in an evening entitled Politics of Passion: The Plays of Anthony Minghella, and Howard Barker's provocative No End of Blame -- the story of a political cartoonist whose pen is dipped in poison.

Windy City, the 1982 musical version of the classic newsroom comedy The Front Page, will be seen at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in a revised version that will run from September 5th through October 22nd