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NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX & More Set for The Wooster Group 2025 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 22, 2024

The Wooster Group will perform two productions this season at its home base, The Performing Garage. See upcoming programming for 2025 and learn how to purchase tickets.

Paul McGann, Kerri McLean, Amanda Ryan, and More Will Lead THE RIVER at Greenwich Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 3, 2024

Greenwich Theatre will present a new production of Jez Butterworth’s The River in its first major London revival since its world premiere at the Royal Court in 2012. Find out about the cast here!

Bucks County Playhouse to Celebrate 56 Years of Student Theater Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 15, 2024

Nearly 800 students from schools across the region will converge at Bucks County Playhouse to sharpen their performance skills and perform for one another at the Playhouse’s 56th Annual Student Theater Festival. Learn more!

Richard Foreman's SYMPHONY OF RATS to be Presented at The Wooster Group
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 5, 2024

The Wooster Group will present New York performances of their new production of Symphony of Rats, a play by leading American avant-garde playwright Richard Foreman.

Bucks County Playhouse Receives Education Funding
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 27, 2024

Bucks County Playhouse received $67,500 in funding through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program.

The Wooster Group to Present the Premiere of GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME at The Performing Garage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 27, 2023

The Wooster Group will present the premiere of Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, an original work for theater that explores a distinctive genre of Black American storytelling called Toasts.

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: WE'LL HAVE NUN OF IT, Underbelly Cowgate
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Aug 12, 2023

Derry Girls meets Spring Awakening in this absolute triumph of new musical theatre writing. Performed by a talented young cast, this is a show that deserves a very long life. We’ll Have Nun Of It follows a year in the life of four close friends at an Irish Catholic boarding school in the 1960s. Each of the girls has their own backstory and personality, very quickly distinctive, and the dynamics between each of them are fun to watch play out.

ALIEN8 Comes to Bucks County Playhouse This Month
by Stephi Wild - Jul 13, 2023

A new musical -- “Alien8” -- written by Kate Brennan and David Lee White was developed with and written for teenagers and speaks to intergenerational views of gender, identity, and inclusion within an anthem of belonging, love, and acceptance.

Review: CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS at 59E59 Street Theaters-A Captivating Portrayal of Sisterhood
by Marina Kennedy - Jun 19, 2023

59E59 Theaters continue their Brits off Broadway festival of shows with 'Cassie and the Lights.'  It is a unique, entertaining, and poignant play by Patch of Blue in association with New Diorama Theatre.

59E59 Theaters to Hold Relaxed Performance Of CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS in June
by Blair Ingenthron - Apr 27, 2023

59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) have announced a Relaxed Performance of Cassie and the Lights, presented by Patch of Blue in association with New Diorama Theatre and Xinyi Shen for Verse Unbound and Amelia Campbell, which will be held on Saturday June 24 at 2:15 PM. Written and directed by Alex Howarth (he/him; Let the Right One In), Cassie and the Lights will begin previews on June 13 in Theater B with an opening night set for June 17 and running through July 2 as part of 59E59's Brits Off Broadway 2023 Season.

Bucks County Playhouse Word Of Mouth Storytelling Performances Return In May
by Stephi Wild - Mar 30, 2023

Back by popular demand, Bucks County Playhouse’s storytelling series returns this spring and features Gastor Almonte, Stuart Carroll, Ophira Eisenberg, Faye Lane, Michaela Murphy and Abraham Norfleet. WORD OF MOUTH: BUSTED is hosted by Murphy and Eisenberg and will take place on Saturday, May 13 with shows at 2 pm and 7:30 pm.

Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company To Remount Original Musical ALIEN8
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 29, 2023

Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company will remount their original production Alien8 this summer!

Bucks County Playhouse Celebrates 55 Years Of The Student Theater Festival This April
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 28, 2023

This year, Bucks County Playhouse celebrates the 55th Annual Student Theater Festival. The festival performances, which are open to the public, will be held on April 17-20 and April 24-27, 2023.

Roderick Fords Innovative Dystopian DAUGHTER OF GOD Opens 8 March
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 1, 2023

Asylum Productions in association with Cork Opera House , UCC Department of Theatre/Granary Theatre and Once Off Productions present Daughter of God by Roderick Ford at Granary Theatre, Dept. of Theatre, University College Cork, running 8 - 11 March, 2023.

59E59 Theaters to Present Brits Off Broadway 2023 Season Featuring BREATHLESS, THE HABIT OF ART & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 28, 2023

59E59 Theaters has announced productions for the Brits Off Broadway 2023 Season, their annual celebration of U.K. theatre.

Photos: 400 Students Attend Bucks County Playhouse's First School Day EVITA Matinee
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 25, 2022

Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) hosted its first-ever full student matinee, on Thursday, October 20 at 11 a.m. Students from seven middle and high schools from throughout the region attended a special performance of the Playhouse’s acclaimed production of “Evita,” followed by a talk-back session with members of the cast and educators from the Playhouse. The matinee was sold out. See photos from the afternoon.

Edinburgh 2022: Review: CASSIE AND THE LIGHTS, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Aug 12, 2022

When Cassie's mother disappears, the teenager wants to care for her sisters on her own. Is she the right person to be a parent now, or should she let foster parents adopt her sisters and create a new family? Based on real-life events and interviews with children in care and with live music, Cassie and the Lights examines our ideas of what makes a family.

The Wooster Group to Present GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME in September
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 1, 2022

The Wooster Group will present their newest production, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, an original work for theater that explores a distinctive genre of Black American storytelling called Toasts, September 16-October 8, 2022, at the Group’s home, The Performing Garage, in New York City. 

ALiEN8 Presented By Playhouse Youth Company At Bucks County Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 20, 2022

A buried secret and a community determined to keep it that way, a catastrophic event twists, breaks, and reshapes every facet of their lives, a mysterious stranger appears who seems to know them better than they know themselves. 

Comedians and Storytellers From Comedy Central and Peacock Come to Bucks County Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - Feb 11, 2022

Albo and Almonte's show continues the Playhouse's tradition of storytelling events which was established in 2017 with the arrival of Michaela Murphy as Bucks County Playhouse's Director of Education.