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Show: PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM Theater: The Stagecrafters Theater Website: http://www.thestagecrafters.org Show runs: 06/14/2013 to 06/30/2013 Theater Address: 8130 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19118 (Map It) Theater Phone: Theater Amenities: Wheelchair Accessible, Concessions, Heated/Air Conditioned, Close to public transportation Price: $12.50 – $20 Purchase tickets online: http://www.thestagecrafters.org

Family makes one crazy and keeps one sane. With our families we fight and dream and wake up every day to face the realities of life. They say every child is born into a different family. Conversely, every adult walks into and then goes about constructing another kind of family [...]

RUINED, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Lynn Nottage, opens at The Stagecrafters theater on Friday, April 12th. The story, set during the seemingly endless horrific civil conflict raging in today’s Democratic Republic of the Congo, centers on shrewd businesswoman Mama Nadi, who runs a bar and brothel near a [...]

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.” George Bernard Shaw was one of Britain’s most prolific playwrights—and one of its most beloved as well.  He was quite controversial, too; Shaw used the stage as a vehicle to shed light on the many inequalities he found in [...]

The third production of the current season at The Stagecrafters, George Bernard Shaw’s classic, MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION, will open on Friday, February 1, 2013. A play of morals and ideas, set in late Victorian England, it is a study of two strong women, mother and daughter, each determined to hold [...]

Like many of his other well-known plays, August Wilson’s award-winning drama JITNEY centers around the lives of several African-Americans in Pittsburgh during the late 1970s.  These men work as jitney drivers at Becker’s, an unlicensed taxi business located downtown, and it’s here that their individual stories converge. JITNEY throws the [...]

Stagecrafters Theater in Chestnut Hill opened with Neil Simon’s LOST IN YONKERS Friday evening.  Some people consider Neil Simon “stock” theater, a revenue generator, but I heartily disagree.  Simon writes about real relationships and family dynamics in a skillfully humorous way, with just enough drama to keep the mind engaged [...]

I can only imagine how much fun it must have been to be part of the Stagecrafters’ cast of TARTUFFE rehearsing this show. My greatest wish for the actors in this hysterical production is that they continue to have as much fun onstage as I did watching them. Even if [...]

Stagecrafters opened its latest production, THE DEADLY GAME, on Friday April 13th. THE DEADLY GAME tells the story of four elderly gentlemen who meet regularly to dine and exchange stories. As the show opens, we are transported to a villa in the Swiss Alps sometime in the mid-1950’s. The Judge, [...]

ALL MY SONS was only the second play that Arthur Miller wrote; it is based upon a true story. While Miller’s first play THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK lasted only four performances on Broadway; ALL MY SONS was a hit and ran for over 300 performances in 1947. [...]

Sixteen-year-old Kimberly Levaco is mature for her age…literally. She suffers from a rare physiological condition that causes her body to age four and a half times the normal rate. As a result, at sixteen, Kimberly possesses the frail figure of a seventy-year-old woman, although retaining her youthful mentality. It’s this [...]

Arthur Miller’s THE PRICE, which features an ongoing struggle of interfamily conflict, shares some similarities with his more familiar works. The story is simple yet poignant. Victor (Phil McCrossan) and Walter (John Reardon) are brothers. Their father, a once-successful businessman raking in millions, lost all his wealth virtually overnight in [...]

Every now and then you get really lucky, and you see something that reminds you why you go to the theatre in the first place. I got lucky Friday night—I got to see The Stagecrafters’ production of Lynn Nottage’s MUD, RIVER, STONE and it’s brilliant. Nottage has emerged as one [...]

Lives are anything but private in this 1930’s British comedy by Noël Coward, now running at Stagecrafters in Chestnut Hill. Elyot (Jeff Ragan) and Amanda (Pierlisa Chiodo-Steo), once a couple, are five years divorced. They since have moved on and remarried: Elyot to the slightly high-strung Sibyl (Mare Mikalic) and [...]

Alfred Uhry, the playwright of DRIVING MISS DAISY, drew on his memories of Atlanta and its German-Jewish families to write THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO.  He set his play in 1939 amid the unsettling news of Hitler’s advances and subtle anti-semitic rumblings in the US.   What he really reveals to [...]

Musicals, even light-weight ones like THE FANTASTICKS require the performers to act, sing, dance, and hopefully have a good time doing it. It’s the nature of the beast. The production of THE FANTASTICKS at The Stagecrafters gave the audience an uneven musical experience.  While half of the actors seemed at ease; [...]