2009/2010 Season
Nerve
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April 8, 2010 - May 2, 2010 One man + one woman @ bar = First Date. A simple equation, so what could go wrong? In Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve, well just about everything! From a too soon declaration of love to far too much information about past relationships, this ‘wickedly entertaining and darkly comic romance’ (OffOffOnline.com) allows us to eavesdrop on the early stages of what may or may not end up being the real thing. Throw in some interpretive dance and a wise cracking puppet and you have a ‘laugh out loud funny’ (The Gothamist) evening.
The Long Christmas Ride Home
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October 29, 2009 - November 15, 2009 One snowy Christmas Eve three children and their parents take an ill-fated ride to grandmother's house. In The Long Christmas Ride Home past and present collide in the back of the family sedan. The play offers brief, illuminating glimpses of the children's future lives, but always comes back to that one fateful night, the claustrophobic car, and the moment a family shattered. Combining superb storytelling, music and puppetry The Long Christmas Ride Home explores the fragile and fraying bonds of family.
Black Pearl Sings!
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MAY 28 - JUNE 27, 2010 Frank Higgins’ play with music follows the Depression-era journey of two extraordinary women, each of whom is dependent on the other to gain acceptance in society. In 1935 Texas, Susannah, a Caucasian academic and song collector for the Library of Congress, visits a high-security prison where she meets Pearl, an African- American woman imprisoned for murder. Hoping to record the treasure trove of spirituals and African folk songs that only Pearl knows, Susannah bargains for Pearl’s parole and arranges for several public performances.
Here We Go Upon the Sea
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April 9 – May 9, 2010 Commissioned by InterAct in 2008 through its 20/20 New Play Commission program, WHEN WE GO UPON THE SEA is a provocative new play by Tony Award nominated playwright Lee Blessing, author of A WALK IN THE WOODS, WHORES, and GOING TO ST. IVES. Set in a high-end hotel room at The Hague, WHEN WE GO UPON THE SEA imagines former President George W. Bush on the eve of his trial for international war crimes.
City of Numbers
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mixtape of a city...
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Jan. 22 – Feb. 21, 2010 CITY OF NUMBERS was created by playwright Sean Christopher Lewis as part of an outreach effort in which he interviewed lifetime inmates at Graterford Prison about their work as mural artists. Since its early beginnings, CITY OF NUMBERS has grown into a dynamic one-man tour de force performance that interweaves the stories of dozens of Philadelphians - from convicted murderers to victims’ relatives to physicians to artists to community leaders to Mayor Michael Nutter.
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
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Oct. 23 - Nov. 22, 2009 Set in the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling, and fueled by vibrant, hip-hop language, CHAD DEITY pits long-time reigning T.H.E. Wrestling champion, Chad Deity, against Vigneshwar Paduar, a trash-talking, India-born athlete recruited from the b-ball courts of Brooklyn. Casting the young upstart as an anti-hero extremist from "over there" who intends to catapult himself to fame by overthrowing the "all-American" Chad Deity, T.H.E. Wrestling's CEO
Jonathan
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April 1 - April 3
The show reveals Jonathan's subconscious dream state while his body is actually comatose in a hospital.
He is guided by three characters that represent three sides of his cognitive being. It is here that he is forced to reconcile with his past while his future remains obscured and uncertain
Let's Pretend We're Married
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A Special Return Engagement
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February 2 - February 14 Let’s Pretend We’re Married, the smash hit of 1812’s 08-09 season returns for a special limited engagement! Starring Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs, Let’s Pretend We’re Married features original material as well as classic cuts from Burns and Allen to The Bickersons, and is packed with songs of love by everyone from Irving Berlin to Prince! With all NEW material added for Valentine’s Day, don’t miss your chance to see what all the fuss is about!
The Light in the Piazza
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November 13 - December 6, 2009 The six-time Tony Award-winning Piazza combines the romance of Italy with a passionate love story. Margaret Johnson, a woman escaping her crumbling marriage, is traveling in Tuscany with her daughter Clara. When a handsome young Florentine captures Clara's heart, Margaret must decide if she'll risk revealing truths that could theatren her daughter's happiness. Best enjoyed by patrons age 14+.
"A magnificent and moving theatrical achievement!" –Chicago Tribune
Golden Age
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WORLD PREMIERE
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January 22 - February 14, 2010 Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally explores the exquisite and passionate world of opera with Golden Age, set backstage at the 1835 Paris premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's final opera, I Puritani. PTC has partnered with McNally for the world premieres of Master Class, Some Men and this season's Unusual Acts of Devotion. Following its run in Philadelphia, the PTC production will move to the Kennedy Center as part of its "Terrence McNally's Nights at the Opera" Festival. Best enjoyed by patrons age 15+.
