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AMERICAN MOOR Extends at Lantern Theater Company and Will Host Conversation With Playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb

Lantern Theater Company announced that its acclaimed production of American Moor will extend its run into December to meet demand from audiences and student groups.

AMERICAN MOOR to Continue Lantern Theater Company 2024/25 Season

Lantern Theater Company will present the Philadelphia premiere of AMERICAN MOOR by Keith Hamilton Cobb, exploring Shakespeare, race, and modern America. Directed by Kash Goins. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Theatre Philadelphia Reveals 2022-2023 Barrymore Award Recipients

Theatre Philadelphia has revealed the 2022-2023 Barrymore Award recipients, honoring the local theater community in the Greater Philadelphia region.

Plays & Players Theatre to Present WORLDS APART: A READING SERIES This Month

Plays & Players Theatre will present WORLDS APART: A Reading Series, featuring a diverse lineup of plays that spotlight the construct of distance in Philadelphia, PA. Get all the details here!

Theatre Philadelphia Unveils First Full Slate Of Barrymore Nominees Since 2019

The Barrymore Awards return to honor the 2022-2023 theatre season in Philadelphia. With 66 productions recommended, this year's nominations celebrate the diversity of local artists and theatre companies. Stay tuned for the ceremony date and location announcement.

Photos: First Look at WRITTEN BY PHILLIS at Quintessence Theatre Group

Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic theatre, concludes Season XIII: Celebrating the Extraordinary with a world premiere of Paul Oakley Stovall’s Written by Phillis, directed by Cheryl Lynn Bruce. A new play exploring the life and poetry of America’s first published Black poet Phillis Wheatley, Written by Phillis is presented in association with Chicago’s New Classics Collective, opens tonight, May 13. Check out production photos here!

World Premiere of Paul Oakley Stovall's WRITTEN BY PHILLIS to be Presented at Quintessence Theatre Group

Quintessence Theatre Group will conclude Season XIII: Celebrating the Extraordinary with a world premiere of Paul Oakley Stovall’s Written by Phillis, directed by Cheryl Lynn Bruce.

Photos: First Look at RADIO GOLF at Arden Theatre Company

Arden Theatre Company is bringing audiences back into the world of August Wilson’s ten-part series, The American Century Cycle. Audiences are currently journeying to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s for the final play of the cycle, August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Kash Goins, who was an actor in the Arden’s production of Two Trains Running, returns to direct. August Wilson’s Radio Golf runs through April 16. Check out a first look at the production here!

Arden Theatre Company Continues Season With August Wilson's RADIO GOLF, March 23- April 16

Arden Theatre Company is bringing audiences back into the world of August Wilson's ten-part series, The American Century Cycle. This time audiences will journey to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s for the final play of the cycle, August Wilson's Radio Golf. This bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation in nineties America traces the forces of change on a neighborhood and its people caught between history and the twenty-first century. This is the fifth play in the cycle that the Arden has produced.  Kash Goins, who was an actor in the Arden's production of Two Trains Running, returns to direct. August Wilson's Radio Golf runs March 23-April 16.

Hedgerow Theatre Company's GOOD GRIEF Earns Grant From National Endowment For The Arts

Hedgerow Theatre Company has been awarded a Grants for Arts Projects award by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the amount of $10,000. This grant will support the Philadelphia premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu's Good Grief.

Hedgerow Theatre Company Kicks Off New Year and 100th Anniversary Season With Ngozi Anyanwu's GOOD GRIEF

Hedgerow Theatre Company is diving into its 100th season with the regional premiere of work by a rising star in American Theatre: Ngozi Anyanwu, who grew up in Bucks County.

Lantern Theater Company Presents Philadelphia Premiere Of THE ROYALE

Lantern Theater Company continues its 2022/23 season with the Philadelphia premiere of The Royale by award-winning American playwright Marco Ramirez. Philadelphia theater artist Zuhairah McGill makes her Lantern directorial debut, leading an ensemble cast of Philadelphia actors that includes Phillip Brown, Morgan Charéce Hall, Gregory Isaac, Brian Anthony Wilson, and Kahlil A. Wyatt.

Quintessence Theatre Group Extends Reclamation Repertory

Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic repertory theatre, announces the extension of The Reclamation Repertory,  a rotating repertory of Pearl Cleage's epic historical fiction Flyin' West and Alexandre Dumas fils' enduring tragic romance Camille.

Quintessence Theatre to Present The Reclamation Repertory Featuring FLYIN' WEST and CAMILLE

Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic repertory theatre, will conclude with Season XII: Breaking the Cycle with a rotating repertory of Pearl Cleage’s epic historical fiction Flyin' West and Alexandre Dumas fils’ enduring tragic romance Camille. 

Black Violin to Appear as Special Guest at High Note High Step Event

Black Violin will be the Special Guest at Musicopia's and Dancing Classrooms Philly's annual High Note High Step Event on Sunday, December 6 at 3:30PM. Usually an in-person breakfast, this year's High Note High Step has been re-imagined as a virtual event using Remo: a unique, interactive, and immersive online platform.

BWW Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is in bloom at STAGES REPERTORY THEATRE

It's the right time to resurrect the 1982 off-Broadway phenomenon LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. It's a catchy little musical that says a lot about greed combined with materialism, and it reminds audiences of how brilliant Howard Ashman and Alan Menken have always been.

Stages Repertory Theatre Presents LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Stages Repertory Theatre is excited to present a brand new production of the iconic musical, Little Shop of Horrors. The sci-fi cult classic is slated for an 8-week run beginning March 6 in Stages' Yeager Theatre.

Mowgli, Baloo And Sherakhan Come To DCT's Great Jungle In JUNGALBOOK

Welcome to a jungle full of animals and life lessons galore when Dallas Children's Theater (DCT) opens JUNGALBOOK, based on Rudyard Kipling's original 1894 coming of age tale. The daunting greatness of the jungle takes over DCT's stage with a larger-than-life set and combines with the moral lessons of home, betrayal, life and death, and loyalty to create a must-see play that captures the imagination. JUNGALBOOK runs at the Rosewood Center for Family Arts from May 4 - 26.

Photo Flash: Queensbury Theatre Hosts Texas Premiere of UNLOCK'D

Unlock'd, a new musical by New York Musical Theatre writers Sam Carner and Derek Gregor will run at CityCentre's Queensbury Theatre from February 7-25 (Opening Night, February 16), in a new production in association with New York / Chicago producer Judy Loseff and directed by local Marley Singletary, featuring Houston-area talent.

Photo Flash: First Look at JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Following its overwhelming sell-out success in 2016, Jesus Christ Superstar returns this summer now through 16 September, giving audiences one final chance to see the production in its original home.