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Melissa McBain, former Radnor Township teacher and Eastern University graduate, returns to Philadelphia to tell her mother's story in the Philly Fringe 2011 solo show, GOING BACK NAKED.

Jennifer Sheehan, winner of the Noël Coward Foundation Cabaret Award and the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Julie Wilson Award, brings her critically-acclaimed show, 'You Made Me Love You: Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook' to Bob Egan's in New Hope on Saturday September 3.

Philadelphia's experimental theater company, New Paradise Laboratories opens its newest exploration of virtual and real space performance with the launch of www.

The New School enters its second season September 19 and meets throughout the year until April on Monday nights.

Quintessence Theatre Group launches its second season with two classic comedies: Carlo Goldoni's THE VENETIAN TWINS, in a translation by Ranjit Bolt, and William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, to be presented in repertory and directed by Alexander Burns.

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

Audiences are encouraged to stray outside the usual boundaries of theatre art in Extremely Public Displays of Privacy, a three-part performance experience from New Paradise Laboratories.

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

Tickets are now on sale for the 15th annual Philly Fringe, which runs in conjunction with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival from September 2 - 17.

YLT's 2011-12 Season opening production will be The Spell of Sleeping Beauty, a family-friendly children's series production sure to delight audiences of all ages with its cartoonish twist to the traditional fairy tale.

Trenton playwright Mark Violi's World War II drama Riding the Comet will enjoy its world premiere production at Actors' Net.

People's Light & Theatre presents The Return of Don Quixote, by Kira Obolensky, freely adapted from Cervantes' Don Quixote of La Mancha.

Melissa McBain, former Radnor Township teacher and Eastern University graduate, returns to Philadelphia to tell her mother's story in the Philly Fringe 2011 solo show, GOING BACK NAKED.

In The Blood, Suzan-Lori Parks harrowing drama about homelessness and hypocrisy, will be presented by the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe.

Theatre Exile will launch their 2011/2012 season with the Philadelphia premiere of 2010 OBIE Award-winning The Aliens by Annie Baker.

11th Hour Theatre Company is kicking off its season with the return of one of their most popular productions ever.

Hedgerow Theatre's fall schedule offers something for every taste, starting with a comedy by Neil Simon, mystery and intrigue from Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe, Andy Kahn's Great American Songbook, a classic Broadway musical, and two versions of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

The Actors' NET of Bucks County presents a staged reading Sept.

Legendary mentalist, The Amazing Kreskin, brings his live show to the Lehigh Valley area for the first time in over 40 years when he appears at the State Theatre in Easton on Thursday, September 22nd, 7:30 PM.

Steven Brinberg's hysterical show, 'Simply Barbra,' returns to New Hope at Bob Egan's, Saturday August 27.

VI Degrees examines a social sexual network of colorful characters who engage in unprotected sex, prostitution, living on the 'down low' (closeted homosexuality), adultery and how each may contribute to the high rates of HIV/AIDS in the black community.

Singer-songwriter Lisa Bodnar comes to New Hope at Bob Egan's, Friday, August 26.

Eric Longo, of Wallingford, has a lot of clear skies coming his way this fall at The Media Theatre.

Arden Theatre Company kicks off its 2011/12 main stage season with the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning August: Osage County by Tracy Letts.