Hear Again is here again! We look to the past to explore the future! Vintage old time radio goodness: two classic radio programs for the whole family, featuring live music & Foley sound effects at each performance. Featuring Lux Radio Theater’s It’s a Wonderful Life and other Holiday treats!
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Summer Solstice Picks at the Kimmel Center
The 14 hour long annual musical extravaganza on Saturday, June 18, noon-2am, now includes more than 40 confirmed artists performing musical acts and a variety of entertainment throughout the Kimmel Center’s multiple venues and public spaces. We picked some highlights from the Citibank Summer Solstice Festival. For a full listing of events and their location, click to view a printable schedule grid featuring links to artist websites!
Gibraltar An Adaptation after James Joyce’s ULYSSES (1922)
Historic Plays & Players is thrilled to present Gibraltar: An Adaptation after James Joyce’s Ulysses. Buried in the heart of a complex book lies the love story of Leopold and Molly Bloom. Adapted for the stage by Patrick Fitzgerald, Gibraltar tells their story, arguably for the first time.
Female Playwrights take center stage with Crack the Glass Theatre Co
In an evening of one-act performances, multiple female playwrights will take center stage through Crack the Glass theatre Company. In this inaugural production, “Evening of One-Acts” showcases the female playwright, featuring pieces written by women from Connecticut to California and everywhere in between. The pieces range from the light-hearted—including stories from the garden of Eden, the trials of staying in shape, and how frustrating it is to have a car break down in the middle of nowhere—to more serious themes of familial abuse and the consequences of war. These shows have been given life by talented playwrights and now are being brought to life by a talented cast and crew of local actors from the Philadelphia area.
Playing Leni by Madhouse Theater Co
A dark comedy, Playing Leni is a fictionalized account of the capture and arrest of Leni Riefenstahl, filmmaker and propagandist for the Third Reich during World War II. Her captor, an unnamed Allied soldier, must transport Riefenstahl to a detention center. Riefenstahl, however, believes this “trip through the countryside” is the perfect opportunity to create her cinematic masterwork. Writing and rewriting her story as they travel, Riefenstahl comes face to face with the inescapable truths of war, privation, and death camps. The mystery soldier becomes jailor, confessor, and actor in Riefenstahl’s unending pursuit to produce, direct, and edit each piece of her life—blurring the lines between art and reality, ambition and conscience, innocence and culpability.
