Paul McElwee News

George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance: 'A Cavalcade of Ideas Wrapped Around a Full Portion of Wit' will run tonight, January 28 through February 22, 2015 at Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5.

George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance: 'A Cavalcade of Ideas Wrapped Around a Full Portion of Wit' will run January 28 through February 22, 2015 at Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5.

City Theater Company gets their Irish up for the 21st season, opening in December with a reimagined staging of James Joyce's The Dead. Richard Nelson won the Tony Award for Best Musical Book in 2000 for his adaptation of the short story that closes out Joyce's seminal collection The Dubliners. The music is by Shaun Davey, with lyrics conceived and adapted by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey.

City Theater Company gets their Irish up for the 21st season, opening in December with a reimagined staging of James Joyce's The Dead. Richard Nelson won the Tony Award for Best Musical Book in 2000 for his adaptation of the short story that closes out Joyce's seminal collection The Dubliners. The music is by Shaun Davey, with lyrics conceived and adapted by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey.

City Theater Company's landmark 2013-2014 season continues with the epic Gypsy. Hailed by critics as the great American musical-with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and book by Arthur Laurents-the show is based on the memoirs of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The classically structured play focuses on the ultimate stage mom, Mama Rose, and her obsessive drive to make her two daughters into stars at any cost.

'The set needs a couch! This actor needs a wig.' These, and countless others, are the requests directors have given to stage-managers, since the relationship between the two entities had been formed to create stirring, surprising and entertaining theatre. Sarah Dryer, the Stage-Manager for August: Osage County at the Ritz Theatre Company does not fall short of ensuring that the thirteen actors and countless talented creators have the means to do what they do best.

'The set needs a couch! This actor needs a wig.' These, and countless others, are the requests directors have given to stage-managers, since the relationship between the two entities had been formed to create stirring, surprising and entertaining theatre. Sarah Dryer, the Stage-Manager for August: Osage County at the Ritz Theatre Company does not fall short of ensuring that the thirteen actors and countless talented creators have the means to do what they do best.

This June, 11th Hour Theatre Company is moving Armadillo Acres, Florida's most exclusive trailer park, to the Arcadia Stage at the Arden Theatre and giving city audiences and audiences around the area a second chance to see their raucous and hilarious co-production with Montgomery Theater of The Great American Trailer Park Musical.

The Ritz Theatre Company presents Michael Frayn's hilarious comedy, 'Noises Off' at the historic Ritz Theatre, 915 White Horse Pike, Arts District, Haddon Township, NJ, April 22- May 22.

The Ritz Theatre Company presents Michael Frayn's hilarious comedy, 'Noises Off' at the historic Ritz Theatre, 915 White Horse Pike, Arts District, Haddon Township, NJ, April 22- May 22.

The Ritz Theatre Company presents Michael Frayn's hilarious comedy, 'Noises Off' at the historic Ritz Theatre, 915 White Horse Pike, Arts District, Haddon Township, NJ, April 22- May 22.

Two of Philadelphia's smaller theater companies, Theatre Horizon and 11th Hour Theatre Company, have banded together to put on a unique and intimate production of this beloved musical upstairs in the Independence Studio at the Prince Music Theater.

11th Hour Theatre Company alongside Theatre Horizon will present a unique interpretation of the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical classic, Little Shop of Horrors at Prince Music Theater's Independence Black Box from November 27-December 20.

Two of Philadelphia's smaller theater companies, Theatre Horizon and 11th Hour Theatre Company, have banded together to put on a unique and intimate production of this beloved musical upstairs in the Independence Studio at the Prince Music Theater.

11th Hour Theatre Company alongside Theatre Horizon will present a unique interpretation of the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical classic, Little Shop of Horrors at Prince Music Theater's Independence Black Box from November 27-December 20.

11th Hour Theatre Company alongside Theatre Horizon will present a unique interpretation of the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical classic, Little Shop of Horrors at Prince Music Theater's Independence Black Box from November 27-December 20.

Plays & Players, Center City Philadelphia's longest continually operated theater at 1714 Delancey Place, will perform the East Coast Premiere of William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead, by John Heimbuch, running March 12-28 on its Mainstage. A true and accurate account of the 1599 zombie plague that spread to the Globe Playhouse, William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead mixes humorous horror conventions with meticulously researched characters and events from Shakespeare's life. With historical characters including Francis Bacon, Richard Burbage, and Queen Elizabeth joined together to battle zombies, Land of the Dead deftly crosses genres with a knowing wink.

Plays & Players, Center City Philadelphia's longest continually operated theater at 1714 Delancey Place, will perform the East Coast Premiere of William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead, by John Heimbuch, running March 12-28 on its Mainstage. A true and accurate account of the 1599 zombie plague that spread to the Globe Playhouse, William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead mixes humorous horror conventions with meticulously researched characters and events from Shakespeare's life. With historical characters including Francis Bacon, Richard Burbage, and Queen Elizabeth joined together to battle zombies, Land of the Dead deftly crosses genres with a knowing wink.