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After 23 years of guiding Totem Pole Playhouse into national prominence as a premiere professional summer theatre, Carl Schurr and Wil Love are stepping down at the end of the 2008 season.

When picking a season for the Totem Pole Playhouse, Artistic Director, Ray Ficca, equates it to putting on a carnival that lasts the whole summer.

Open Call for Gretna Theatre, Mt.

Gettysburg Stage continues its sixth season with a double feature: Christopher Durang's dark comedy 'Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You' and John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Doubt,' opening March 7 at Keefauver Center, Gettysburg.

Buddy Holly returns to The Media Theatre February 20 through the 22.

This February, TV celebrities and new Hershey area residents Terry Farrell ('Becker', 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' and 'Back To School') and Brian Baker (best known as 'The SPRINT PCS Guy') will star in the Hershey Area Playhouse production of A.

Act II Playhouse is set to begin rehearsals on Feb.

Rediscover this famous play with the company that delivers Philadelphia's finest Shakespeare.

People's Light & Theatre Company presents the East Coast Premiere of Dwayne Hartford's new adaptation of A TALE OF TWO CITIES from the classic novel by Charles Dickens.

Lantern Theater Company?s 15th Anniversary 2008-09 Season continues with Sizwe Bansi is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona from January 30 ? March 1, 2009 at St.

The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 200th anniversary season with Born Yesterday - Garson Kanin's brilliant blend of satire, comedy and laughter.

1812 Productions is pleased to present its third world premiere comedy of the 2008-2009 season, The Karma Cookie.

Award-winning playwright Melanie Marnich's fantastical, quirky play 'Quake' - about a young woman who travels cross-country to find the love of her life, with an astrophysicist/serial killer and other bizarre twists thrown in - will be presented at the Arts Bank Theater of The University of the Arts

First Person Arts will be looking for stories about Philadelphians? ?Hidden Talents? with a special StorySlam in partnership with the Philadelphia Free Library and the Office of the Mayor.

The Walking Fish Theatre is proud to present the sketch comedy troupe with twice monthly performances: HIGH DRAMMA Sketch Comedy! On the fourth Saturday and Sunday (or there abouts) of every month, HIGH DRAMMA brings its irreverent, envelope-pushing scripted comedy skits to the stage at Walking Fish

An elderly couple losing their mental faculties cause their adult children to lose their minds in the Actors' NET of Bucks County encore production of Joe Doyle's comic drama, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs.

Bristol Riverside Theatre continues its America Rising: Voices of Today reading series with Zakiyyah Alexander's SICK?.

Peter Nero and the Philly Pops? steps into the magical life of one of the world's greatest entertainers, Frank Sinatra, with its sensational series Celebration of Ol' Blue Eyes.

The Pittsburgh International Children's Festival, a division of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, will present the 23rd annual festival May 13-17, 2009, in various venues throughout the city's university district of Oakland.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is proud to present Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre in Cokata Upo! (Come to the Center), a performance celebrating the culture of the Lakota people featuring traditional dance, extravagant costumes, and historic narrative, on Sunday, March 8, 2009, at 3 p.

Lizzie Borden took an axe and.

Applications are now available for the 2009 Pittsburgh CLO Summer Internship Program.

Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the premiere of My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, which runs February 12 through May 10 at the CLO Cabaret.

Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce the three new shows that will make up the 2009-2010 CLO Cabaret season, including two Cabaret premieres.

The University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre presents Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's epic Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece.