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Lots of productions and lively times on Philadelphia stages: Highlights of the rest of the theatre season. Shows are listed, loosely, by date order of each theater’s first production.)
Philadelphia Theatre Company [PTC] is celebrating their big new production of Kander & Ebb’s musical, The Scottsboro Boys, with post-show talks and outreach events. Suzanne Roberts Theatre. S. Broad & Lombard Sts. Through Feb 19.
Wilma Theater presents Body Awareness by Annie Baker. Directed by Barrymore winner Anne Kauffman. Nominated for Drama Desk Best New Play Award. Through Feb 5.
Also coming to the Wilma is Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class. Directed by Richard Hamburger. Mar 7- Apr 8. And Tony Kushner’s triumph, Angels in America: Part One: Millennium Approaches. May 23- Jul 1. (Note-- Part Two: Perestroika will start their fall season. Wilma Theater, Avenue of the Arts. wilmatheater.org
InterAct Theatre Company presents MicroCrisis by Mike Lew, directed by Seth Rozin. A good choice for Occupy Wall Streeters. At the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. Jan 20- Feb 12. See CU’s Phila review. www.interacttheatre.org
Marriage (an utterly improbable occurrence in two acts) by Nikolai Gogol The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium at Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5. Feb 8-26.
Would you believe the world’s longest running play is coming to town? Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is at The Walnut through Mar 4. Followed by Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning God of Carnage, Mar 13-Apr 29. Then Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story comes in from May 15- July 15. Looking ahead they are booking Love Story, the Musical. Grab your hankies for the September opening. Walnutstreettheatre.org
Knives in Hens by David Harrower comes to Theatre Exile. Directed by Brenna Geffers. Starring Jered McLenigan and Ross Beschler. Introducing Emilie Krause. Feb 9- Mar 4. After that, A Beheading in Spokane by Martin McDonagh. Directed by Joe Canuso. Starring Pearce Bunting, Matt Pfeiffer, and Amanda Schoonover. Apr 19- May 13. Both productions at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St. theatreexile.org
The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis’s favorite of his own works opens in February at Lantern Theater. Short run. Feb 7 – 12.
Next up is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Charles McMahon, Artistic Director of Lantern Theater Company. Described as a “devastating explosion of poetry, sex, and violence.” Mar 1 -Apr 1.
Followed in late spring by The Island by Athol Fugard with John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. Prisoners rehearse Antigone on Robben Island Prison in South Africa. Mar 1-Apr 1. Performances of both plays by Lantern Theater Company at St. Stephen’s Theater, 10th and Ludlow.
Act II Playhouse in a co-production with the Delaware Theatre Company presents Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, directed by Bud Martin. Featuring Bruce Graham, Megan McDermott, Susan McKey, and Kevin Kelly. Act II Playhouse is on Butler Pike in Ambler, PA. www.act2.org.
A World Premiere, Hope Street & Other Lonely Places by Philadelphia playwright Genne Murphy is directed by Kevin Glaccum for Azuka Theatre. Five Philadelphians search for answers and hope in the city. Featuring Kimberly S. Fairbanks and Mary Lee Bednarek. Mar 15- Apr 1. At First Baptist Church, 17th and Sansom.
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre is running Twelfth Night (Mar 23-May 20) and Titus Andronicus (Apr 11- May 19.) 12th Night is directed by Carmen Kahn, music by Fabian Obispo. Titus is directed by Aaron Cromie, and there will be puppets and stage blood. 2111 Sansom Street.
At 1812 Productions: Let’s Pretend We’re Famous, a comedy cabaret created and performed by Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs. Mar 6 -25. Then later, Mamet’s Boston Marriage. Directed by Jennifer Childs and featuring Grace Gonglewski. Apr 26- May 20. At Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey. www.1812productions.org
The Golem, A World Premiere ensemble creation directed by Brenna Geffers. An ancient myth for a modern audience. Mar 29 -Apr 15. EgoPo will follow in the fall season with A Dybbuk adapted by Tony Kushner and directed by Lane Salvadove. Oct 20-Nov 6. Both performed at The Prince Music Theater. 1412 Chestnut St. www.egopo.org
Mauckingbird Theatre Company is staging The Temperamentals by Jon Marans, directed by Peter Reynolds. Communist Harry Hay and Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich fall in love pre-Stonewall. At The Skybox at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. Apr 11 –29. http://www.mauckingbird.org
Announcement:
Something new: Scratch Night
Thursdays at 7 PM: Feb. 9, Mar. 8, Apr. 12, May 10
Live Arts Studio, 919 N 5th St
Free admission, reservations recommended
Philadelphia Live Arts announces the launch a monthly salon called Scratch Night designed to foster the interactive qualities of art-making and invest in artists’ creation of new works of dance, theater or cross-genre performance. Funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will underwrite the first two seasons, which will run annually from October through May.
Scratch Night invites audiences to play a key role in the artistic process with performance artists who are experimenting with new ideas. A core concept is that candid audience feedback offers artists valuable insight as they develop new performance-based work. Artists will show brief segments of newly developed material, At the close of the season in May, nine Scratch artists will be asked to submit proposals for the LAB Fellowship program, from which one candidate will be selected by Live Arts programming staff. Knight Foundation support will underwrite two LAB Fellows over the course of the next two seasons http://livearts-fringe.org/lab/scratch-night.cfm
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Slings & Arrows-the complete set
You don't have to be a Shakespeare aficionado to love all 21 episodes of this hilarious and moving Canadian TV series about a fictional Shakespeare Company