Wilma Theater News

This year, Mile Square Theatre's production of its annual fundraiser 7th Inning Stretch features a selection of seven 10-minute plays from some of America's finest writers.

Trinity Rep continues its 46th season with Sarah Ruhl's dark comedy Dead Man's Cell Phone, directed by Beth F. Milles. Trinity Rep resident acting company member Janice Duclos stars as Jean, an unassuming woman who is thrown headlong into an unexpected odyssey when she answers an incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café.

The Wilma Theater continues its 2009 - 2010 season with the World Premiere production of Language Rooms, a black comedy that exposes the divided loyalties among today's immigrants, discovering the rising cost of the American Dream.

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.

Lantern Theater Company continues its 2009/10 season with the Philadelphia Premiere of The Breath of Life, a gripping story about intimacy and betrayal penned by influential British playwright David Hare.

Lantern Theater Company continues its 2009/10 season with the Philadelphia Premiere of The Breath of Life, a gripping story about intimacy and betrayal penned by influential British playwright David Hare.

Flashpoint Theatre Company is pleased to announce the appointment of award-winning lighting designer Thom Weaver as artistic director for its seventh season.

Lantern Theater Company continues its 2009/10 season with the Philadelphia Premiere of The Breath of Life, a gripping story about intimacy and betrayal penned by influential British playwright David Hare.

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.

Playwright David Wiener has been named ACT's 2010 New Play Award winner for his play Extraordinary Chambers. Two FREE staged readings will be presented in ACT's Bullitt Cabaret on February 27 at 7:30 p.m. and February 28 at 3:00 p.m. Each reading will be followed immediately by post-play discussions with the playwright and the director, Kurt Beattie.

American Theater Company (ATC) is proud to announce that the first installment of its 25th Anniversary celebration, The Silver Project, will include world premiere plays by playwrights Steven Belber, Itamar Moses, Yussef El Guindi, Stephen Karam and Brian Tucker.

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

American Theater Company (ATC) is proud to announce that the first installment of its 25th Anniversary celebration, The Silver Project, will include world premiere plays by playwrights Steven Belber, Itamar Moses, Yussef El Guindi, Stephen Karam and Brian Tucker.

The Old Globe Theatre's Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the cast and creative team for the Tony Award-winning comedy, BOEING-BOEING. The classic farce is written by Marc Camoletti and Beverly Cross, and directed by Mark Schneider. Overseen and originally directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus, BOEING-BOEING will run in the Old Globe Theatre March 13 - April 18. Previews run March 13 - March 17. Opening night is Thursday, March 18 at 8:00 p.m.

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.

The Wilma Theater's production of Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo, selected as the fourth play for its 2009-2010 Season will close on January 31.

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.

Bristol Riverside Theatre presents the Philadelphia premiere of Up by Bridget Carpenter, running March 16-April 4. Directed by BRT Artistic Director Keith Baker, the ensemble cast features Kyle Driggs, Michelle Eugene, Laura C. Giknis, Benjamin Lloyd, Jonathan Silver, and Jo Twiss.

The Wilma Theater grapples with the problems of democracy in the 21st century in the two plays that continue its 2009 - 2010 season, the World Premiere of Yussef El Guindi's Language Rooms (March 3 - April 4, 2010) and the US Premiere of Leaving, Václav Havel's first new play in 20 years, translated by Paul Wilson (May 19 - June 20, 2010).