For 1/2 price tickets to see Take Me Out at Plays and Players, runs March 13 – 27 ($20/ ticket), enter promotional code “PHILACULTURATI” (all caps) when you order tickets online. Click here to purchase tickets.

Plays and Players Presents Take Me Out

Plays & Players, Center City Philadelphia’s longest continually operated theater will present the Tony Award Winning play “Take Me Out” written by Richard Greenberg and directed by Daniel Student.

Set in the world of professional baseball, “Take Me Out” looks at America’s National Pastime. How it is forever altered as Darren Lemmings, star of the New York Empires, comes out of the closet to his team, his friends, and to the public at large. As his deeply racist and homophobic teammate, Shane Mungitt, grows incensed by the news, Darren’s gay financial manager, Mason Marzac, finds a new hero, and the other players see their locker room in a whole new light, the only person who seems unaffected is Darren himself. The drama of the season unfolds on and off the field, with tragic results.

“Take Me Out” was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play 2003 and was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It played 383 performances on Broadway.

Featured in the show are Chuck DeLong, Bill Egan, Sam Han, Gerard Joseph, Joe Matyas, David Mason, Ted Powell, Jerry Rudasill, Dan Sanchez, Ryan Walter, and Peter Zielinski.

Performances are March 11 – 27, 2010. Showtime for Thursday-Saturdays performances are 8:00 pm. Sundays performances are at 4:00 pm. March 11th and 12th are special preview performances, and all regular priced tickets are $5 off.

Following performances on March 12, 19 and 20 audience members are invited to a new play festival “Peanuts and Cracker Jacks” which will feature baseball themed plays Tickets are $10 or free with your Take Me Out ticket stub

Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door for adults, $15 student rush (one half hour before curtain), and $10 for groups of 10 or more. All performances will be given in Plays & Players Main Stage at 1714 Delancey Place (between Spruce & Pine Streets). Tickets may be purchased atwww.playsandplayers.org or by calling (800) 595-4TIX. For additional information call the theatre at (215) 735-0630.

Take Me Out contains adult language and brief nudity.

Katie Baldwin, Julia Blaukopf, Andrea Cote, Oscar Muňoz,

Matthew Neff, Marisha Simons & Ben Volta

Curated by Amie Potsic

Sweet Spot

January 28 – February 18, 2010

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists

1521 Locust Street, Lower Level

Philadelphia, PA  19102

http://www.cfeva.org

In conjunction with Philagrafika 2010 and Fiber Philadelphia 2010, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists is pleased to present Sweet Spot, an exhibition of works by Katie Baldwin, Julia Blaukopf, Andrea Cote, Oscar Muňoz, Matthew Neff, Marisha Simons, and Ben Volta, curated by Amie Potsic.

Selected especially for the Philagrafika 2010 and Fiber Philadelphia 2010 festivals, Sweet Spot features Colombian artist Oscar Muňoz and six CFEVA artists whose prints, sculpture, and installations incorporate printmaking and fiber in unusual and unexpected ways.

Attention Parents!

Here’s a Drama Class for Kids…

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Introduction to the Stage

Do you have a child who has always wanted to try acting, but never has? Or has been in school plays, and wants to do more? Here is a beginning theater class for kids who want to know what it’s like to put on plays. In this class, kids will get a tour of the historic Plays & Players Theater, learn some acting and improvisation games, and get a sense of the basics of creating theater, both onstage and backstage. The final class will be a small showcase of what the kids have learned, with games and/or scenes.  2 hour sessions, Ages: 6-10

Instructors: Ryan Walter and Laura Zingle

Sessions: Saturdays, February 6-March 27; Time: 10am-noon

Performance March 27 at 11am.

Location: Skinner Studio, 3rd floor of Plays & Players Theater

1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Cost: $100 per student; Additional kids in the same family $80

25% discount for Members of Plays & Players

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SPECIAL: If you get a friend to sign up for the class with you, you each get 50% off! That’s $50! Enter the code BUYTWO on the website.

For more info, or to sign up for this class, visit

www.playsandplayers.org

Call the theater at 215-735-0630

Or call Laura Zingle (one of the instructors) at 215-470-8932

INTERACT THEATRE & MURAL ARTS
COLLABORATE TO PREMIERE NEW PLAY
ADDRESSING CRIME IN PHILADELPHIA

CITY OF NUMBERS
mixtape of a city…

Written by Sean Christopher Lewis

Directed by Matt Slaybaugh

Please Note: CITY OF NUMBERS contains adult language.

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OVERVIEW:

WHAT: CITY OF NUMBERS

mixtape of a city…

Written & Performed by Sean Christopher Lewis

Directed by Matt Slaybaugh

WHEN: January 22 – February 21, 2010

Tuesdays & Wednesdays @ 7 p.m.; Thursdays – Saturdays @ 8 p.m.; Sundays @ 2 p.m.; Saturday, January 23 @ 2 p.m.

PRICE: $16 Previews

$25 Tuesdays – Thursdays

$29 Fridays – Sundays

Discounts available for groups, seniors and students

WHERE: On the Mainstage of The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia

INFO / RESERVATIONS: InterAct Theatre Company Box Office

Phone: 215.568.8079

Online: www.InterActTheatre.org

PHOTOS from the Opening Night Reception now on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=138407&id=49107703151

WICKED Announces Lottery for $25 Seats

Performances Begin January 6 at the Academy of Music

January 4, 2010

A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of seats will be held daily for WICKED, which will be performing from January 6 – 24, 2010 at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music. Each day, 2½ hours prior to show time up to 20 people who present themselves at the Academy of Music box office (Broad St. & Locust St.) will have their names placed in a ‘witches hat’ and then 30 minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of seats at $25 each, cash only.  This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person. A limited number of regular price tickets still remain for performances of WICKED.

WICKED begins performances at the Academy of Music January 6 and runs through January 24. When WICKED played Philadelphia in 2006 and 2007, both engagements sold out in record time and broke box office house records.