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*Yes, we know it's Tuesday. Blame the Film Festival. As somebody who writes about theatre (and, admittedly, participates in it once in a while), I belong to the listserv of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. The listserv is usually used to publicize shows and promote events that aren't explicitly theatrical but have some relation to theatre, as well as to find homes for kittens, locate housing, and discover the best place to purchase smokeless......

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia's December On Stage listings make note of four productions of A Christmas Carol (one of which, admittedly, I loved), plus productions of A Christmas Story, Christmas City Follies, Comet, the Fifth Reindeer, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, The Holiday Goose - A Musical, Holiday Show at the Swing Club, The Nutcracker, O'Henry Christmas, The Santaland Diaries, Tiny Tim's Christmas, and Winter Musicale 2007. In short, the season is saturated......

We love the Philadelphia Theatre Alliance, even if we did go to auditions and never got cast in anything. (Seriously, there were like a hundred people in that room. Someone had to like us. Right?) But what we like about the Theatre Alliance is all the cool stuff that they come up with, when they want to get people more involved in the local arts community. Like the Philadelphia New Play Festival, which will......

Performance: Twist (Gila Sand) (Future performances). I had planned to see two shows this evening, but one got cancelled. Probably for the best. One less diary entry to write tonight. And it enabled me to write an email with the subject line "Killer Pussy." So how fun is that? I'm taking the day off from PLAF tomorrow (I'm working late at my day job), but I'll be returning in style later this week. Twist The......

This week’s quote comes from Tallulah Bankhead, the famous actress from days of yore. The entire quote actually reads: “It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.” Now, on with the listings! Spark Showcase Festival - We’re a day late with this listing, but this festival is a two week celebration of local theatre companies. Each of the two......

Philadelphia does love its centennial celebrations. Here we are, still in the throes of the Franklin tricentennial madness, and we've decided to commemorate a bicentennial birthday, too! The 200th birthday in question in this case belongs to Edwin Forrest, famous Philadelphia actor and namesake of the Forrest Theatre. To mark this milestone anniversary of his birth, Mayor Street has declared today "Edwin Forrest Day." Forrest was sort of the Will Ferrel of the mid-19th century;......

Waiting to hear award show results? They might not be the Oscars, but the Barrymore Awards, Philadelphia theatre’s answer to the Tonys, were announced last Monday. Both Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Arden did remarkably well this year, each scooping an Outstanding Production award. PTC won Outstanding Production of a Play for their touching rendition of Take Me Out, the Broadway smash about a gay baseball player’s coming out (and did we mention everyone gets......

The Philadelphia Theatre Alliance held a press conference this week to celebrate Philadelphia theater. That's code for "announcing a lot of stuff." The press conference was long and bloated since they somehow took two pieces of news and stretched into a ten-step agenda. The end result, though, was good: the Theatre Alliance announced the Barrymore Awards nominees for the October 10th ceremony at the Merriam Theatre. They also announced that on October 20th there will......