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Show: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Theater: Players Club of Swarthmore Theater Website: http://www.pcstheater.org/ Theater Phone: (610)328-4271 Start date of auditions: 07/22/2013 The Players Club of Swarthmore will be holding auditions for the Main Stage production of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY on July 22nd, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. The theatre lobby will open for [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Players Club of Swarthmore closes out Season 102 with a rollicking musical: HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Before Dilbert, before Dunder-Mifflin, before Mad Men, there was J. Pierrepont Finch. Young “Ponty” doesn’t know much about corporate skullduggery, but he’s a quick learner. And [...]

April’s Children’s Theater show is a fun and silly musical romp through the joys and sorrows of being a child. We’ve all been there, so it’s only fair to pass along the lessons we’ve learned! This hilarious adaptation takes children through 23 lessons in such subjects as how to beg [...]

Applause rang opening night for SLEUTH as the curtain rose revealing a beautiful bi-level set featuring a lovely Victorian parlor with a dash of humor, and the audience continued to be captivated throughout the performance. Written by Anthony Shaffer, this mystery play surpasses the usual whodunit, spiraling into a thrilling [...]

Stephen Adly Guirgis’s THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, as directed by Erin Guard, challenges conceptualizations of what ‘went down’ in the days of Judas Iscariot, exploring why one of the most reviled characters in biblical times be given redemption via a retrial; why and how despair might be transmuted [...]

Players Club of Swarthmore opened this weekend with their production of GREY GARDENS, directed by Joseph Southard. A musical tale about the eccentric life of Edith Bouvier Beale, cousin to beloved former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and her daughter, “little Edie” Beale. This haunting tale of lost love [...]

Based on the book by Judith Viorst, the children’s theatre version of ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (adapted by the book’s author herself with music by Shelly Markham) is certainly not just for children! Director Josiah Donnell astutely pointed out in his director’s note that [...]

Alexander is having a bad day. A terrible day. A horrible day. To be quite honest, it’s a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. But The Players Club of Swarthmore’s Children’s Theater Series is excited to bring this popular children’s book to life with singing and dancing! So Alexander [...]

Ellen Wilson Dilks directs a strong cast in PCS’s PERMANENT COLLECTION, a thought provoking play inspired by controversial events that had taken place at the Barnes Foundation during the 1990s concerning conflicts over the terms of the legal will of founder Albert C. Barnes, wealthy chemist and art collector who [...]

The Players Club of Swarthmore P.O. Box 236 Swarthmore, PA 19081 Contact: Ken Wilson Audience Development & Marketing Committee publicity@pcstheater.org or 610-328-4271 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Players Club tackles difficult questions in PERMANENT COLLECTION Real-life events inspired this exciting new drama by Philadelphia Playwright Thomas Gibbons Inspired by the Barnes Foundation [...]

Director Jim Carroll invites us to step back in time to the turbulent 1860s to follow the March sisters, their family, and friends in a wholesome tale of one family’s struggle during the Civil War. We first meet the young sisters, each in various stages of approaching womanhood, at Christmastime [...]

Over the years, princesses have captured the hearts of many children and adults alike. Rapunzel has recently been all the rage with Disney’s fairly new movie, Tangled, but the heroine has been around for hundreds of years. Now, the whole family can see a brand new musical version of RAPUNZEL [...]

The Players Club of Swarthmore’s current offering, OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS, is a real treat. It’s a comedy about a 29-year-old marketing executive, Nick Cristano, who regularly visits with his four Italian-American grandparents in New Jersey on Sundays for dinner—that is, until he announces one week that [...]

If you were lucky enough to catch I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE on its second night, you were in for a Valentine’s treat! On a blustery cold, snowy, icy Saturday night, Players Club of Swarthmore’s production offered the perfect holiday date activity and a way to warm your [...]

The Players’ Club of Swarthmore, which produces some of the most consistently reliable theater in the area, is beginning to get a new reputation…sets. Set and scenic designer Jolene Petrowski again works her magic on the PCS’ stage, along with scenic artist Sandy Goldsborough. There are two main sets in [...]

To many, nothing brings the feeling of the holiday season more than watching A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS at home with their families. Now you can even see it live and in person! The Players Club of Swarthmore Children’s Theater puts on a fantastic show. The small theater upstairs was transformed [...]

CRAZY FOR YOU is a musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as “The New Gershwin Musical Comedy,” it is largely based on the songwriting team’s 1930 musical, GIRL CRAZY, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well. CRAZY [...]

BRILLIANT TRACES, written by Cindy Lou Johnson, is certainly not a play that everyone knows. It got to the Players Club of Swarthmore in a very roundabout way. Actors Victoria Rose Bonito and Michael Parducci were seen acting in another venue. They were so dynamic together that PCS asked if [...]

There is a reason why the Players Club of Swarthmore is currently in their 101st season, after just celebrating their centennial anniversary last year. The reason for this is simple. PCS continues to put on shows of the utmost professional quality. I have never seen a show here that I [...]

“This play is called OUR TOWN.”  With that opening line, you know you’re in for something different.  For the first show of their season, the Players Club of Swarthmore tackles Thornton Wilder’s most famous work.  The story takes place in the small New Hampshire town of Grover’s Corners at the [...]