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A 20th anniversary season with major new programming led to record attendance for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

Lantern Theater Company opens its 2011/12 season with the Philadelphia premiere of David Ives' award-winning New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656.

York Little Theatre is currently soliciting show ideas from prospective directors for its 2012-13, 80th Anniversary Season.

In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small-town girl met a big-city dreamer - and in L.

LIVE FROM LOEWS, the concert series being launched at Loews destination hotels around the country, will present Billboard chart-topping R&B and contemporary jazz vocalist MAYSA LEAK for a free performance on Thursday, September 15 at the LOEWS PHILADELPHIA HOTEL.

Riding the Comet is a new World War II drama by Trenton playwright Mark Violi.

Broadway's Blair Baker (Oleanna, Broadway and Mark Taper Forum), stars in a new one-woman show Big Star California in the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe and Live Arts Festival.

Local theatre artist Mark Kennedy will present a world premiere solo performance piece, Checkers, as part of the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Tribe of Fools is bringing the premiere of Heavy Metal Dance Fag to this year's Philly Fringe.

The Big Bang, starring award-winning actors Tony Braithwaite and Ben Dibble, returns to the Kimmel Center stage September 14-October 30.

The Actors' NET of Bucks County launches its 16th season Sept.

Totem Pole Playhouse, which just celebrated its 61st summer season, has announced their first ever Oktoberfest party.

Walnut Street Theatre opens its landmark 203rd season with Andrew Lloyd Webber's ASPECTS OF LOVE.

Open Stage of Harrisburg, the capital's processional regional theatre, is set to open its 26th Season with Sam Shepherd's A LIE OF THE MIND

Kimmel Center's 10th Anniversary Season officially kicks off with two vocalists taking the stage to showcase new works

Australian performer Darren Williams makes his New Hope debut in A TRIBUTE TO PETER ALLEN at Bob Egan's in New Hope on Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17.

MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS Director Matthew Kallis and Writer/Producer Christopher Lockhart will participate in a Tweet Event on TWITTER during the world television premiere of the movie on OWN this Thursday, September 8th.

Philadelphia Theatre Company opens its 2011-2012 season with the Philadelphia premiere of John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama Red October 14-November 13 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets).

Villanova Theatre kicks off the 2011-2012 season with The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare's fastest, funniest farce.

Casting has been announced for Motherhood the Musical®, a musical comedy highlighting the universal blessings and perils of being a mother, premiering in Philadelphia on Oct.

Once again, the Philadelphia Comedy Collective is hosting Philadelphia Comedy Month.

After a 2010 debut that showcased fourteen playwrights to over 3,500 satisfied patrons, the predominantly African American Philly Urban Theatre Festival (PUTF) returns on September 19th with a focus of diversity onstage.

Local theatre artist Mark Kennedy will present a world premiere solo performance piece, Checkers, as part of the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Broadway's Blair Baker (Oleanna, Broadway and Mark Taper Forum), stars in a new one-woman show Big Star California in the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe and Live Arts Festival.

MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS Director Matthew Kallis and Writer/Producer Christopher Lockhart will participate in a Tweet Event on TWITTER during the world television premiere of the movie on OWN this Thursday, September 8th.