Post Tagged with: "Old Academy Players"

MELANCHOLY PLAY is directed by Jane Jennings and produced by Carla Childs, Randy Shupp and Dale Mezzacapa. The show runs January 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, and 29, 2017. Sarah Ruhl has been bestowed many awards and honors, most recently the 2016 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. The Steinberg […]

Old Academy Players proudly presents OUTSIDE MULLINGAR written by award winning American playwright, screenwriter, and theatre and film director John Patrick Shanley and directed and produced by Christopher Wunder. This 2014 Tony Award Nominated play runs September 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 30, October 1, and 2, 2016 at the […]

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee is directed by Nancy Frick and stage managed by E. Ashley Izard and Pat Pelletreau. Show dates are June 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, & 26, 2016. Please note that Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 pm. Truth or […]

Old Academy Players proudly presents YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, the 1967 Tony Award winning musical by Clark Gesner. This hilarious, fast-paced, light-hearted family musical filled with all the adorable characters created by Charles Schultz over sixty years ago, is directed by Annie Hnatko. Show dates are April 22, […]

Old Academy Players proudly presents the hysterically funny VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, the 2013 Tony award-winning comedy by Christopher Durang. Directed by Jane Jennings, the show runs January 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, and 24, 2016. “The kind of full-on comedy that’s rare on Broadway. […]

Kick start the Holidays with great singing and dancing at Old Academy Players’ amazing annual HOLIDAY SHOW — one weekend only December 4, 5, & 6, 2015! Director Annie Hnatko, Accompanist Mark Urmson, and Producer Stephen Hnatko have engaged an ensemble of accomplished performers, who will bring joy to your […]

Old Academy Players presents the award-winning dramatic comedy 4,000 MILES by Amy Herzog and directed by Charlotte Higgins November 6-22, 2015. The NY York Times affirmed, “Plays as truthful and touching and fine as Amy Herzog’s 4000 MILES come along once or maybe twice a season, if we’re lucky.” The […]

Mirthful and Magical or Hilarious and Harrowing, Old Academy Players Proudly Presents a Season that is Bound to Titillate and Delight You! PHILADELPHIA, PA – East Falls’ historic Old Academy Players celebrates its 93rd season by presenting a mix of revered classics, contemporary masterworks, and Tony Award-winning hits. From the […]

Philadelphia, PA – Old Academy Players proudly presents Shakespeare’s immortal TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL. Old Academy Players opens its 2015-16 season with TWELFTH NIGHT, one of William Shakespeare’s funniest and most musical of all his comedies. Directed by Old Academy veteran Carla Childs of Mt. Airy, the show […]

Philadelphia, PA – The exciting and intriguing comedy-drama TEN CHIMNEYS, by Jeffrey Hatcher, one of the most prolific and produced playwrights in the U.S., is the fifth play in Old Academy’s exciting season and its 496th production. It runs April 24, 25, May 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10, […]

Old Academy Players proudly presents BUS STOP written by Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award Winning Playwright, William Inge. Philadelphia, PA – William Inge’s BUS STOP is the fourth play in the exciting Old Academy Players 2014-15 Season and its 495th production. It runs March 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and […]

A gym, a bar, and four unattached adults who are perhaps just a bit lost and LOOKING, set the stage for the plotline of the show currently running at Old Academy Players. Humor looms large, as the four actors deliver a smart script that presents the foibles of finding friendship […]

The delightful, hilarious comedy Looking, written by Norm Foster, Canada’s most produced playwright, is the third show in Old Academy Players exciting 2014-15 season. It runs January 9 through 25, 2015. Directed by Christopher Wunder and produced by Nancy Frick and Ben Marshal, Looking stars Old Academy super stars Norman […]

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN is the 492nd full-length production at Old Academy Players. This play should not be confused with the Swedish film of the same title. Theater is at its best when the intention is to entertain, educate, enlighten, and/or inform. AS IT IS IN HEAVEN informs the […]

Old Academy Players, for their 491st show, takes on a play that is not for the faint of heart. THE LION IN WINTER by James Goldman is a play about family life, not every day family life, but a dysfunctional royal family. Chinon, France during the Christmas of 1183 is […]

Ingredients: six doors, three international accents, six actors, three sets of wings, one bachelor, one bachelor flat in Paris. Recipe: place one American bachelor in his French flat with one sarcastic French housekeeper, stir in one clueless bachelor houseguest from America, dip into this one well-organized stay with one two-timed […]

A schoolyard fight, boys at play, parents balancing the misbehavior with civilized discussion. Or are they? Old Academy Players, for the 486th full-length production of its illustrious history, takes no prisoners when tackling grownups behaving badly in GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza. As stories go, it is not unusual […]

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Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden starred in the original production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, now being presented as the final show of Old Academy Players 2012-2013 season. This is quite a group of actors to compete against and fortunately director J.P. Parrella doesn’t attempt to. […]