Brilliantly casual theatre is served up alongside a pie (slice of pizza) and a pint (drink of choice) all for one low price. A new one-act play is presented each week in October on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6 – 7pm at The Red Room, Society Hill Playhouse.

Tickets are just $15 and include pizza and a pint. Purchase tickets online or, do one better, support the season for a few dollars more and receive a fun gift or two! Don’t wait, lend your support today! http://www.kickstarter…

Theatre as it should be — fun, accessible, and casual.

Full season schedule:

October 4th and 5th at 6pm
“Peaches en Regalia”
by Steve Lyons, Produced by David O’Connor

October 11th and 12th
“Hazardous”
by Quinn D. Eli, Produced by Philadelphia Theatre Workshop

October 17th and 18th
“Fly me to the moon”
by Marie Jones, Produced by Tiny Dynamite

October 25th and 26th
“The Ching Room”
by Alan Bissett, Produced by Inis Nua Theatre Company

New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) was founded to create surprising, meticulous, spiritually challenging, and wholly distinctive experimental theatre productions that investigate physical expression, on-stage and in life. These productions are assembled using collaborative creative processes developed by the company. The work tends to value wild humor, shock, a concern for history, a muscular visual sensibility, and a fascination with the utopian impulse. Furthermore, NPL uses the fruits of its experimentation to benefit the artistic and audience community as a whole.^[1]

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Founded in 1996 by Whit MacLaughlin, NPL has created an average of one original performance work each year since its founding. Their work has been presented as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Children’s Theatre Company, and in residencies with universities all over the United States.

Greg flexes his directorial muscles when Todd asks “Direct Me If I’m Wrong”! Stay Tuned!

The Shakedown Project (TSP) was founded to create innovative, thought provoking experimental theater which blurs the disciplinary lines of entertainment, combining different art forms into unique coherent narratives.
TSP focuses on shaking off established theatrical convention, integrating mediums of technological entertainment with live performance and diminishing the boundaries between audience and performers. Above all, TSP strives to bring new audiences to the theater by staging contemporary performances with appeal to an artistically confluent generation.

The Community Education Center (CEC) was founded in 1973 to serve the culturally and economically diverse neighborhoods of West Philadelphia. Since the mid-1980′s, the CEC has served as a center for community arts. Through the arts, the CEC has established itself as a vibrant and unique neighborhood resource that is strategically important as a meeting place to create common ground and nurture a sense of shared community and culture among people of differing backgrounds. It serves as an important anchor to the business strip and other artistic energy growing on Lancaster Avenue. It addresses the needs of area residents by providing access to low-cost cultural and family activities, as well as public space that is used for civic meetings and social events. At the same time it provides space and technical support to arts and educational organizations and individual artists who often do not have access to affordable office, rehearsal and performance space. The CEC is the intersection of the community and the arts, bringing community residents, audience from across the region, and local artists together in an incubator to nurture and grow together.

Today’s podcast features Rich Rubin, Producing Artistic Director of Quince Productions and the current production of “Educating Rita”. Stay Tuned!