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Comedy often stems from tragedy.  Certainly, many who work in the world of comedy relate stories of their own tragic backgrounds. Carol Burnett is among those ranks, with a tragic childhood and adolescence followed by a life of filling the lives and living rooms of multitudes with laughter. HOLLYWOOD ARMS [...]

Slamming doors, mistaken identities, hiding in closets, and a keystone cop finale abound in Ken Ludwig’s LEND ME A TENOR, currently playing at MN Players’ new location at 129 Park Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081.  MN Players will undergo a name change during 2012 to become Spotlight Theatre.  For the current [...]

David Auburn’s highly acclaimed winner of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play is now being presented by a superbly talented cast in the new Swarthmore home of the MN Players/Spotlight Theatre.  Their staging of PROOF should not be missed by anyone seeking an evening of truly thrilling performances. This [...]

Written just as WWII was ending in 1945, J.B. Priestley’s AN INSPECTOR CALLS is meant as an indictment of Britain’s aristocracy.  It is perhaps Priestley’s best known works [in large part due to an inventive and bold revival by Britain’s National Theatre in 1992] and considered to be one of [...]

After seeing the immensely moving opening night performance of Eve Ensler’s NECESSARY TARGETS at MN Players, an audience member remarked that it was not the kind of show you “like”, though the “perfomance was excellent” (Yes, it was!).  The play’s subject matter is indeed heavy, sobering, unsettling; it intends to [...]

MN Players in Swarthmore opened their 71st Season with the Lanford Wilson play, FIFTH OF JULY. This is the first play in the “Talley Trilogy” of plays by Mr. Wilson, about the fictitious Talley family in Lebanon, Missouri. FIFTH OF JULY is the story of Kenneth Talley, Jr. (Thomas-Robert Irvin), [...]

MN Player’s THE NERD, written by Larry Shue, and directed by Dani Kennedy, starts out high energy, picks up comedic velocity, barrels into hilarity, then lifts-off into the outer limits of laughter. Willum Cubbert (Brian Gillin), is a young aspiring architect who needs to learn to be firm or risk [...]

Through February 5, Marple Newtown Players invites you to visit a beautiful stretch of the Italian coastline. ENCHANTED APRIL tells the tale of the bubbly but bored Lotty Wilson (Heather Ferrel), the young wife of a prominent British solicitor in 1922. Lotty dreams of escaping the doldrums of London’s depressing, [...]