A local father-son duo is a big part of People Light’s World Premiere retelling of Charles’ Dickens A Christmas Carol. Swarthmore resident Zak Berkman, People’s Light’s Producing Director, has adapted this yuletide ghost story into a music infused tale that captures the magic, joy, and generosity of the beloved classic in a whole new light. Berkman’s 16-year-old son, Eliot Berkman-Lamm plays guitar as well as several characters.
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YPTW Presents Annie Jr. for Your Holiday Pleasure
There is no better way to bring your family holiday cheer than to attend the Young People’s Theatre Workship production of Annie Jr. at The Players Club of Swarthmore.
Return to the Stage at the Players Club of Swarthmore
The Players Club of Swarthmore kicks off its post-pandemic schedule on Friday, August 13, with a comedic take on love and urban angst entitled Detroit, a Pulitzer-prize-nominated play by Lisa D’Amour, directed by George Mulford.
Annie!
Based on the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, this musical tells the story of a plucky orphan who dreams of finding her parents. Billionaires, cruel orphanage matrons, nefarious con artists, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt feature in this family favorite, along with unforgettable songs like “Tomorrow” and “It’s the Hard Knock Life.”
Take a Quantum Leap to PCS’s New Play
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum cosmology requires that there be many, perhaps an infinite number, of worlds, new ones arising from each quantum interaction. Constellations, a play by Nick Payne opening November 8 at the Players Club of Swarthmore, is an artful riff on this notion, using multiple short scenes to portray divergent outcomes of each event. The result is a wittily complex structure used to tell a very simple story: two people meet, take up housekeeping together, break up, get together again, settle down, face the future. At least, in several of the multiple universes that are all equally possible, they do several of those things.
PCS Opens The Hollow
The Players Club of Swarthmore continues its mainstage season with a new production of Agatha Christie’s whodunit The Hollow, opening tonight (Friday, October 18), and running through November 2 at its playhouse at 614 Fairview Road in Swarthmore.
The Actors Co-op Provides Unique Take On Training
Two Delaware County residents — Val McAdoo from Wallingford and Pete Postiglione from Springfield — decided on Swarthmore as an ideal setting for The Actors Co-op to offer classes for children and adults who aspire to learn acting and creating for today’s media. They teach performance in front of a camera, emphasizing that acting for film and television is very different than acting for the stage.
Dracula: the Bloody Truth at Hedgerow
Next week, Hedgerow Theatre opens its production of Dracula, the Bloody Truth, a comic reassessment of the vampire legend told by novelist Bram Stoker. What if Stoker‘s Dracula was not fiction at all, but fact, asks playwright John Nicholson? The play explores the possibilities in a month-long run, with several previews preceding opening night, Friday, August 16, and continuing through September 15.
PCS Presents Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Schoolhouse Rock, a pop culture phenomenon over the past four decades, comes to the area in its latest incarnation as an all ages musical, to be staged August 10-18 in the Players Club of Swarthmore’s Summer Children’s Series. Based on the Saturday morning cartoon series seen on ABC-TV from the 1970s through the 1990s, Schoolhouse Rock Live! teaches history, grammar, math, and more to a whole new generation through hit songs including “Conjunction Junction,” “Just a Bill,” “Interplanet Janet” or “Three is a Magic Number.”
Private Lives Now Showing at Hedgerow
You think you have privacy concerns? They are as nothing compared to the tangled web woven by, with, and around the quartet that Noël Coward created in his comic masterpiece Private Lives, now in a breezy three week run at the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley.
Schoolhouse Center Booking Mockingbird Trip
A great American novel is now a great American play, which will begin its second year on Broadway with a new star. You can be part of it by joining Schoolhouse Center in a one-day trip to see To Kill a Mockingbird at the Shubert Theater on Broadway on Saturday, November 16.
Hedgerow Summer Classes Open for Kids
Hedgerow Theatre Company’s Theatre School is now enrolling students from age 8 through high school for summer classes offering high-energy fun and high-caliber training in creating and performing theater art. Two summer sessions allow students to learn the fundamentals and the intricacies of storytelling through theater, then putting them into action with public performances at Hedgerow‘s facilities in Rose Valley.