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Renée Taylor’s “My Life On A Diet” Performances at Bucks County Playhouse, January 30 - February 2 enée Taylor’s award-winning autobiographical comedy “My Life On A Diet” will play at Bucks County Playhouse, January 30 - February 2 as part of the Playhouse’s Visiting Artists Series. In “My Life On A Diet,” Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning writer
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Allens Lane Art Center Presents Comedy Classic The Philadelphia Story
Renée Taylor’s awardwinning autobiographical comedy “My Life On A Diet” will play at Bucks County Playhouse, January 30 February 2, 2020. and actress Renée Taylor looks back on a life full of memorable roles in Hollywood and on Broadway, and just as many fad diets. A self-described “diet junkie” who used to think that if she ate like star, she’d just might look and live like one, Renée dishes out both juicy anecdotes about and weight loss tips from Hollywood legends such as Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, and Barbra Streisand. She also shares hilarious and poignant stories about Joseph Bologna, her partner in work and life for 52 years. In telling about her high and lows – on and off the scale – this comedy legend proves the ability to laugh gets you through it all. “My Life On A Diet” is written by Ms. Taylor and Joseph Bologna, and was originally directed by Mr. Bologna. “My Life On A Diet” made its New York premiere last summer with a critically acclaimed, extended run Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clements. In November, Ms. Taylor won the annual United Solo Special Award for “My Life On A Diet” for her significant contributions to solo theatre during the year. Renée Taylor (Performer, Co-Writer). My Life On A Diet is one of 22 plays, four films, and nine TV movies and series that Renée and Joseph Bologna created together. Renée and Joe appeared together on Broadway in their plays Lovers and Other Strangers (1968), It Had to Be You (1981), and If you ever leave me … I’m going with you! (2001); and Off-Broadway in Bermuda Avenue Triangle (Promenade Theatre, 1997). For film, they received an Academy Award See Renée Taylor’s “My Life On A Diet” page 3
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January 1 – January 14, 2020
An intimate moment shared by fiancées Tracy Lord (Neena Boyle) and George Kittredge (William McHattie) in Allens Lane Theater’s production of “The Philadelphia Story.” Photo/Tom Ryan he theater at Allens Lane Art Center presents the comedy classic, The Philadelphia Story, written by Philip Barry and directed by Noël Hanley. The show will be presented at the Allens Lane Art Center, 601 West Allens Lane in Philadelphia on January 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 & 25 at 8 p.m. and matinees January 12, 19 & 26 at 2 p.m. The wealthy and well-established Lord family of Philadelphia is about to welcome the cream of society into their home for the second wedding of Tracy Lord, vibrant daughter of the house, to George Kittredge, a proudly priggish up-and-com-
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The Brandywine to Present Votes for Women: A Visual History Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment • February 1 – June 7, 2020 Votes for Women: A Visual History will ommemorating the 100th anni feature more than 200 artifacts from the versary of the Nineteenth Amendsuffrage movement. Drawings, illustrament to the United States Contions and posters from museums, hisstitution, the Brandywine River Museum torical societies and private collections of Art will present Votes for Women: A Visual History, an exhibition that re “Votes for Women A Success” discovers the visual language of the color map, hand colored paper women’s suffrage movement. The long mounted on canvas, 28 x 40 in. road to women’s suffrage, spanning the National American Woman Suffrage 19th and early-20th centuries, played Association Papers, Library of out very differently from political moveCongress, Manuscript Division. ments today. In the absence of televised and digital media, the suffragists will provide the visual language to despread their message through magacode the complex political messages zines, political cartoons, posters, plays, conveyed by suffragists. Also included parades and even through fashion. will be early film footage as well as hisFocusing on the decade prior to ratifitoric photographs and banners from cation of the Nineteenth Amendment rallies and marches, including the 1913 in 1920, the exhibition examines the Women’s Suffrage Procession in Washcompelling imagery of the suffrage ington, D.C. Examples of the costumes, movement, revealing how the “look” of clothing, sashes and other emblems of women’s rights developed and decipherwomen’s activism worn by suffragists will enliven the presentation. ing the important visual strategies that propelled it forward. Organized by the Brandywine and curated by Amanda C. Burdan, Ph.D., See “Votes for Women: A Visual History” Exhibit page 8
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