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11th Hour Theatre Company continues its new NEXT STEP concert series with a concert version of Passing Strange with music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and book and lyrics by Stew on Saturday, January 19-21 at Off-Broad Street Theatre (1636 Sansom Street).

Theatre Exile will present the third show of their 16th season with the Philadelphia premiere of The North Plan by Jason Wells.

The Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) has announced a limited engagement of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler and directed by Karen Carpenter.

Quintessence Theatre Group continues its third season of progressive classical theatre with Gogol's THE DIARY OF A MADMAN, directed by Alexander Burns.

The national tour of the explosive Broadway hit AMERICAN IDIOT, called "wonderfully raucous" and "emotionally charged" by The New York Times and "flat-out electrifying" by the Boston Globe, will make its Philadelphia premiere Feb.

Artistic director Robert Battle makes his Philadelphia debut leading "Culture Ambassador to the World" Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the Merriam Theater on Wednesday-Friday, January 30-February 1, times vary.

The Percent for Art Program of the City's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy invites you to join us tonight, January 8th at 11am for the dedication of Engine 38, the City's new Fire Station in the Tacony neighborhood, and the percent for art project by Suikang Zhao.

Surrounding the new Les Miserables musical film frenzy, the 25th Anniversary musical production is the pinnacle of the world's longest running musical and for good reasons.

ArcheDream for HUMANKIND is performing DEEP BLUE at the Sedgwick Theater of Mt Airy (7137 Germantown Ave.

Leaders from theatres around the world whose primary mission is to produce the works of William Shakespeare will meet at the home of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Center Valley, Pennsylvania January 7 - 12, 2013.

Luna Theater Company continues its 11th season wilth the Philadelphia premiere of Duncan MacMillan's LUNGS.

The Percent for Art Program of the City's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy invites you to join us on Tuesday, January 8th at 11am for the dedication of Engine 38, the City's new Fire Station in the Tacony neighborhood, and the percent for art project by Suikang Zhao.

People's Light & Theatre presents William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, running January 31-March 3, 2013 on the Main Stage.

This past October, the Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) and Newtown Arts Company announced the return of the famed student theater festival competition to the newly reopened Playhouse next spring after an absence of two years.

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 204th season with an all-new production of Oscar Wilde's dramatic masterpiece AN IDEAL HUSBAND.

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 204TH season with an all-new production of Broadway's five-time Tony Award-winning family musical, Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN.

The Players Club of Swarthmore presents Chamber Music, by Arthur Kopit, opening on Second Stage on January 18, 2013.

Raising pointed questions about what makes us human, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe presents the world's first full-scale robot-human theater production, Robot-Human Theater, a Seinendan Theater Company + Osaka University Robot Theater Project.

SAVAGE LOVE is a gripping one-person play by Shepard and Chaikin that captures the beauty and savagery of love in this cleverly crafted collection of love poems that will immediately resonate with anyone who has ever fallen in love.

THE VICTIM is a new original musical composed and written by 17-year-old Hanover High School student Zachary David Terrazas.

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The Kimmel Center rings in the New Year with a free indoor 2013 New Year's Day Celebration today, January 1, 2013 from 10 a.

If "the only thing constant is change" then Constantine's Jekyll/Hyde along with the creative team will change your persepetive of this "revisal" as they call it, which is destined to arrive on Broadway in April 2013.

The Players Club of Swarthmore, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, is proud to announce a reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning

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