Walnut Street Theatre News

Philadelphia-Area Theatre Companies Achieve Fifth Anniversary Milestone Year Sets the Stage for Artistic Success, Adaptability, and Survival The Greater Philadelphia area has seen a tremendous rise in its number of cultural groups in recent years.

Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley's Visiting Mr. Green, featuring Equity artists Alan Kutner and Damon Bonetti starring in Jeff Baron's multi-generational comedy, will close on February 14.

The passionate world of opera comes to life in Philadelphia Theatre Company's world premiere of Terrence McNally's Golden Age. Final performance is slated for February 14.

Two River Theater Company welcomes high school students from around the state to audition for two upcoming programs: PlayBack and its Metro Scholar program.

The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 201st season with Noël Coward's FALLEN ANGELS.

Please be aware that our opening night performance of ANY GIVEN MONDAY, scheduled for tonight, 2/10, at Plays and Players Theatre, has been canceled.

The Walnut Street Theatre's 2009-2010 Independence Studio on 3 season continues with the Philadelphia premiere of Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue. Directed by Jose M. Aviles, the production starts on February 23rd, opens February 25th and continues through March 14th in the Walnut's Independence Studio on 3.

American Theater Company (ATC) celebrates its 25th Anniversary with The Silver Project, a year-long festival of 30 world premiere short plays penned by some of the country's leading playwrights. The Silver Project will run over ten evenings between February 8, 2010 and June 20, 2010 at American Theater Company, 1909 W Byron St, Chicago.

IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE, produced by Theatreworks USA, will continue the Walnut Street Theatre for Kids 2009-2010 Season at the Walnut on Saturday, February 6 at 10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m. (ASL interpreted) and 3:30 p.m.

People's Light & Theatre Company presents KING LEAR, by William Shakespeare, from March 3 - 28, 2010 on the Main Stage.

The popular, uplifting musical celebration of all things Irish-The Irish...And How They Got That Way, returned to the Kimmel Center January 7 and was set to run through February 28 at the Kimmel's Innovation Studio.

Theatre Exile is proud to announce the world premiere of Any Given Monday by Bruce Graham, the 'dean of Philadelphia dramatists' (Philadelphia Inquirer).

Important new works for the stage are regularly being produced all across Greater Philadelphia in significant numbers! Currently, at the Walnut Street Theatre, two new plays can be seen - one a timeless look at the corrupt politician (The Prince by Bill Van Horn and Armen Pandola), and the other about the seeds of change that brought our national politics to where it is today (The Eclectic Society by Eric Conger).

The Walnut Street Theatre's 2009-2010 Independence Studio on 3 season continues with the Philadelphia premiere of Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue. Directed by José M. Avilés, the production starts on February 23rd , opens February 25th and continues through March 14th in the Walnut's Independence Studio on 3.

Mauckingbird Theatre Company delves into the lives of two influential gay writers Truman Capote and James Baldwin - both authors of literary touchstones of the mid-twentieth century.

What will you find wrapped up in The Eclectic Society? A touch of every emerging social aspect of the 1960s - rock music, marijuana, homosexuals, the independent woman, civil rights. Though this was, in the long run, too many topics to do them all justice, at curtain call The Eclectic Society still brought the audience to its feet.

Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley fires up its 2010 Signature Series Jan. 28-Feb. 14 with Visiting Mr. Green, featuring Equity artists Alan Kutner and Damon Bonetti starring in Jeff Baron's multi-generational comedy, directed by local theatrical powerhouse Roberta Sloan, director of Temple University Theaters.

The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 201st season with the World Premiere of Eric Conger's THE ECLECTIC SOCIETY.

Scandals, secrets and diabolical plans set the stage for comedy in Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of the Obie Award-winning play The Foreigner by Larry Shue, running January 26-February 14.

Bill Van Horn and Armen Pandola have created a well-written political comedy currently playing at the Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 3. The Prince features two characters portrayed by the playwrights themselves. Nick Collas (Armen Pandola) is law ethics professor recounting to his students (the audience) the case of indicted politician Paul 'The Duke' Ducachevski (Bill Van Horn). Both actors spend the entire time in these roles and therefore spend a good deal of time addressing invisible people. However, when Van Horn as the Duke has a meeting or personally greets people at a crowded event, the acting and writing allow the audience to clearly see the people he's addressing.