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This January, the Touchstone Ensemble will be joined by Moravian College students, local theatre artists, and Bethlehem community members for a public reading of Bill George's new play, The Whitman Piece.

Arden Theatre Company continues its 2010/11 season with Eugene O'Neill's American masterpiece A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Auditions for Civic Theatre of Allentown's February 2011 production of Fifth of July will be held at 7pm on Tuesday, December 14th in the rehearsal hall above Civic's 19th Street Theatre at 527 N.

Coming to Plays & Players (P&P) mainstage Jan.

Following his triumphant appearances in October, Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to lead The Philadelphia Orchestra in four thrilling concerts featuring Debussy's Nocturnes and Mozart's Requiem for chorus, soloists, and orchestra (January 6-9, 2011).

The Philadelphia Orchestra has added a fourth performance of Mozart's Requiem with Music Director Designate Yannick Nezet-Seguin on Sunday, January 9, 2011, at 2 PM in order to accommodate the overwhelming demand for tickets.

The Philadelphia engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS broke the box office record at the Forrest Theatre for the eighth time, grossing $1,514,718 for the week ending December 12, its final week in Philly.

Penn State NU Musical Theatre Festival for Fall 2010 continues with the staged reading of Standardized Testing, The Musical.

Bob Egan's New Hope will celebrate the new year with two performances by Jersey-Boys inspired, New York-based vocal group, Uptown Express, December 31.

Multi-award winning singer, songwriter and recording artist JUDY BARNETT is appearing at the hot new BOB EGAN'S NEW HOPE supper club/cabaret in the Ramada at New Hope, on Friday, December 17th.

The Players Club of Swarthmore Theater is ringing in the new year with an intimate musical about a girl and a boy - and the Spanish gaucho hired by their fathers to whip up a romance.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 12/12 for Philadelphia

Christmas is high art at the Hedgerow this year, with Jared Reed in A Dickens Christmas.

The original "LOST" show comes to Ambler, as Act II Playhouse presents William Shakespeare's shipwrecked island play, The Tempest.

Philadelphia Theatre Company spells F-U-N when it opens its 35th Anniversary mainstage season with the multiple Tony Award winner The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, and conceived by Rebecca Feldman, running November 12-December

The City of Philadelphia along with legendary local radio personality Jerry Blavat will welcome the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award Winning Best Musical, JERSEY BOYS, to Philadelphia for an 11-week engagement at the Forrest Theatre beginning Sept.

The international hit comedy, MY MOTHER'S ITALIAN, MY FATHER'S JEWISH & I'M IN THERAPY! featuring Ron Tobin, will make its Philadelphia premiere at the Society Hill Playhouse for a 12-week engagement beginning Sept.

Dates have been announced for the Philadelphia engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Forrest Theatre, as part of the new 2010-2011 Broadway Season.

Gretna Theatre and Lebanon Valley Brethren Home are co-producing their annual holiday production of "The Littlest Angel" on December 11, 2010 for two shows only at 12:00 noon and6:00 pm.

Kick off the holiday season at Bristol Riverside Theatre with Home For The Holidays , the eighth annual winter musicale concert, on December 11-22.

As George Bailey struggles against a greedy banker to save his small savings and loan business in Bedford Falls, it seems he's worth more dead than alive.

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Celebrate the Holiday Season at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with not one but two incredible performances guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit! Back by popular demand after a sold-out show in 2009, Preservation Hall Jazz Band returns to the Annenberg Center stage to perform ho

Civic Theatre School, the Lehigh Valley's premier children's theatre school will end registration for its Winter 2011 session on Wednesday, December 22nd.

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Academy of Music in Philadelphia from January 18 through 23 as part of the Broadway Season.