ABOUT FUTURE FEST

Glimpse the unknown…and yet-to-come. Luna Theater Company journeys to the future with their second annual play festival, FutureFest. The world premiere of six one-act plays, FutureFest explores how our visions of the future inform our understanding of ourselves and world today. Plays are curated and produced based on the international submission guidelines “If you had a time machine, where would you go in the future.”

FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION:
@LunaTheaterCo
http://lunatheater.org

ABOUT THE HAND OF GAUL

The Hand of Gaul
Written by Jared Michael Delaney
Directed by Tom Reing
Starring Adam Altman, Megan Bellwoar, Damon Bonetti, Jared Michael Delaney, Leonard Haas, and Harry Smith

April 9-28

When French soccer superstar Thierry Henry single-handedly knocks Ireland out of the 2010 World Cup with an unchecked foul, three fiercely proud (albeit not overly bright) Irish fans decide to avenge their team. This Inis Nua original takes on World Cup elimination and the fall of the Celtic Tiger as international intrigue, a rare Belgian beer and the world’s most popular sport come together in unexpected ways.

FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION:

@inisnuatheatre
http://inisnuatheatre.org

ABOUT NICKY SILVER

Nicky Silver’s plays include BEAUTIFUL CHILD, PTERODACTYLS (Oppenheimer Award, Kesselring Award, Drama Desk nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), THE EROS TRILOGY, RAISED IN CAPTIVITY (Drama Desk nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination, Drama-Logue Award), THE FOOD CHAIN (Outer Critics Circle nomination), FAT MEN IN SKIRTS, FIT TO BE TIED, THE MAIDEN’S PRAYER, FREE WILL & WANTON LUST (Helen Hayes Award), MY MARRIAGE TO ERNEST BORGNINE, and THE ALTRUISTS, as well as the new book for the Rogers and Hart musical THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE.

ABOUT PHILADELPHIA DRAMATISTS CENTER

PDC (Philadelphia Dramatists Center) is a community of playwrights, collaborating artists and audience members dedicated to creating and nurturing new work.

We develop resources, stimulate creative partnerships and participate in the ongoing national dialogue about how and why theater is created.

ABOUT DANIEL TALBOTT

Daniel Talbott is an actor, director, playwright, producer, literary manager, and artistic director. He was born in the Bay Area and moved around the country with his family before landing back there for high school, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. His most recent work as an actor includes the Theatre for One project in Times Square and around NYC, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Builder (Irish Rep), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Tartuffe (McCarter Theatre/Yale Rep), Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem) and the feature film Pretty Bird, Dreaming American and The Big C on Showtime.

For more info: visit www.quinceproductions.com

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.

Who’s ready for some girl talk? Lynne Elson, Susan Cain McQuilken, and Kate McGrath, three of the female playwrights behind Rep Theatre’s “Girl on Gurl,” certainly are. Listen in as they chat up their pieces in the upcoming Fringe show, dissect the playwriting process, and celebrate the joys of being a female playwright.

“Girl on Gurl” runs Wed., Sept. 7  - Thurs., Sept. 15 at the the Skinner Studio on the 3rd floor of Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For tickets and more information, visit Rep Theatre’s web site or the Live Arts/Fringe Festival web site or call the Fringe Festival Box Office at 215-413-1318.

Writing a completely new work for theatre can be terrifying, but so can adapting a well-known or much-loved piece. Join host Kristen Scatton as she talks to Josh Hitchens and Christopher Morse, the men behind “Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker,” one-man adaptations of the horror classics “The Statement of Randolph Carter,” by H.P. Lovecraft and “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.

For more information about the show, part of the 2011 Philly Fringe Festival, visit http://ticketing.theatrealliance.org/sites/livearts/details.aspx?id=19939

Step inside the famous Blue Grotto, and into the mind of Jeffrey Stanley, writer of “Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead,” for an in-depth discussion of life, death, and how to light things on fire with Ouija boards. Stay tuned, Rep Radio is on the air!

Timmy Bagley is a tough, blue collar, South Philly dockworker with a secret passion for tap-dancing . . . to 1980s hair metal. Heavy Metal Dance Fag is an outrageous comedy about identity, repression, and the complications of love and dancing in South Philly.