Join Flashpoint for our Late Night Series as we present a workshop presentation of MORGAN written and performed by Sara Madden, featuring Amanda Grove and Theresa Leahy.

Office politics can be sticky, especially when you throw in an office nemesis, crush, and of course, happy hour. Join Morgan for drinks, light snacks and little bit of scandal as she celebrates TGIF with her co-workers.

10 PM
April 26, 27, 28
following SLIP/SHOT by Jackie Goldfinger (come for both!)

$5 suggest donation at the door.
Running time: approx. 30 minutes

For more information, visit www.flashpointtheatre.org

Come see to the first ever public reading of Candy Candy, a new play by Chris Davis. This play is in development and truly needs an audience. Also, it’s pay what you can at the Shubin Theatre!

We have an amazing cast that has been working with the script:

Candy – Adriana Lopez
Abuela – Victor Rodriguez
Tia – Kennedy Candra
Enrique/Susannah – Kate Black-Regan
Terry/Antony – Chris Braak
Benefactor/Dad – Aaron Cromie

Candy is a young girl living in Chiapas, Mexico, when she finds that a blonde wig transports her to a fictionalized fantasy world full of lovers, travel, and dreams. Soon the two worlds of reality, and fantasy collide, in this hilarious comedy.

Some free drinks will be provided at the reading!

Location: Shubin Theatre (4th & Bainbridge)
Date: Wednesday, April 25th
Time: 8pm

Pay-What-You-Can

ABOUT R. ERIC THOMAS (@oureric on Twitter)

Playwright, storyteller, teaching artist, lethargic blogger, good time queer, Nilla Wafer-ish black, joyous Christian, rampant DVRer. Serious/ridiculous. (Taken from Twitter)

Next Production: OVEREXPOSED

The return of the sell-out hit!  Three people at a crossroads of definition try to figure out who they are in relation to their sexuality.  Join storytellers R. Eric Thomas, Jennifer MacMillan, and Daniel Student for an evening of multi-sexual, very theatrical, and remarkably revealing storytelling.

For more information: www.quinceproductions.com

On today’s podcast, witness the taking of Brian’s “interview virginity”! He was playing hard to get for so long but, he had so much to give! Brian talks about his current residency and the challenges of working, writing and raising a family! Stay Tuned!

In November, Iron Age Theater and the Centre Theater proudly present the world premier of “Maroons. The Anthracite Gridiron,” by Ray Saraceni, the true story of the hard scrabble Schuylkill County coal miners who created professional football. The biggest underdogs and misfits in the game coming from nowhere and winning it all, only to see their dream season stolen out from under them, an injustice that football fans still hope to see righted.

The play tells the riveting tale of the proud, tough men who played both offense and defense with just leather helmets and their hearts; their hard charging gambler of an owner Doc Streigel; and the coach who created the passing game as the “coal crackers” went up against the big city teams to win Pottsville a championship and show that “pro ball” was the equal to the then dominant college game. The Centre returns to the world of sports and class struggle wit this new play about the Pottsville Maroons. Ray Saraceni is a Paoli native and Villanova University graduate. He has a Phd. in theatre history from Tufts and is a critically acclaimed actor on many Philadelphia stages. (less)

For More Information: www.centretheater.org

To be a playwright or not to be a playwright? For Adam Szymkowicz, there is no question. But that doesn’t mean he can’t try to warn a novice (me) about the perils of life in theater.

In this episode, I sit down with Adam, whose play “The Fat Cat Killers” is opening Flashpoint Theatre Company’s 2011-2012 season this October, for some coffee and career advice. Will I heed this wise man’s words? Stay tuned and find out!

“The Fat Cat Killers” runs Wed., Oct. 26 through Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Second Stage at the Adrienne. For tickets and more information, visit http://www.flashpointtheatre.org/.

Join Kristen as she sits down with Philadelphia’s smoothest-talking playwright, Quinn D. Eli, to sip some coffee and share insights into Philly’s theatre community.

Quinn’s play “Hazardous” is being produced as part of Tiny Dynamite’s “A Play, A Pie and A Pint” series on Tuesday, Oct. 11 and Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 6 pm at the Red Room at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA. Tickets are $15 and include a a slice of pizza and a beverage.

Other shows in the series are:

“Fly Me to the Moon” by Marie Jones – Oct. 18 and 19 at 6 pm

“The Ching Room” by Alan Bissett – Oct. 15 and 26 at 6 pm

For tickets and more information, visit www.tinydynamite.org.

When you’ve already written and produced a show named one of the “10 Essentials at the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe” by Philadelphia Weekly, what do you do for a follow-up? That’s just one of the questions “Inside the Writer’s Mind” poses to Josh McIlvain, writer and director of “Deer Head: yet another – though equally hilarious and perhaps even more so as the first two – evening of outrageous short comedies,” part of the 2011 Fringe Festival.

“Deer Head” runs Wed., Sept. 14-Sat., Sept. 17 at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St., Philadelphia. For tickets and information, visit http://smokeyscout.com/ or http://ticketing.theatrealliance.org/sites/livearts/details.aspx?id=19848.