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Year 34, No. 22
Celebrating 34 Years of Community News
February 6 – February 12, 2019
Inis Nua Theatre Presents American Billy Idol and Steve Stevens to Perform at Parx Premiere of “Box Clever” Turned On, Tuned In and Unplugged Duo Tour March 30
Fifteenth Anniversary Season of Inis Nua Continues Tradition of Bringing New and Challenging British and Irish Theater to Philadelphia nis Nua Theatre presents English playwright Monsay Whitney’s “Box Clever” for its American premiere, directed by Artistic Director Tom Reing. In a women’s shelter in London, headstrong, mouthy and maybe a little crazy Marnie struggles to take care of her four-year-old daughter in a moving and relevant dark comedy. This edgy two-hander stars Inis newcomer Ruby Wolf as Marnie, and Inis
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Ruby Wolf (Marnie) (right) and Rachel Brodeur (all other characters) star in Monsay Whitney’s “Box Clever” by Inis Nua Theatre Companay from February 6 - February 24 at the Drake. Photo/ Plate 3 Photography
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alum Rachel Brodeur playing all other roles. Previews begin Wednesday, February 6, with opening night on Friday, February 8. The show runs through February 24, 2019 for a total of 15 performances. All performances will take place at the Louis Bluver Theatre at the Drake, 302 South Hicks Street. Tickets are $25 - $35. For reservations, visit https://inisnuatheatre.org. “Box Clever” is part of the return of Philly Theatre Week, presented by Theatre Philadelphia. Please note that while this play is lighthearted at its core, it does tackle some difficult issues including intimate partner violence. For more information ahead of the performance, please contact Inis Nua Theatre. Marnie’s three useless ex-boyfriends can’t seem to leave her alone. There’s Danny, the father of her daughter. There’s Liam, a junkie who keeps leaving her voicemails. And there’s Stevie, who she calls “an angel” but who calls her a stalker. Add to the mix Fi Fi – her so-called feminist social worker who follows her around constantly “like a roving mosquito handpicking See Inis Nua Theatre’s “Box Clever” page 4
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The Billy Idol/Steve Stevens tour hits the Xcite Center at Parx Casino® on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8 p.m. Photo/Edison Graff illy Idol and Steve Stevens, one of rock’s most iconic and enduring duos, will hit the road this March for their first ever tour performing as a duo: Turned On, Tuned In and Unplugged. The Billy Idol/Steve Stevens tour hits the Xcite Center at Parx Casino® on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8 p.m. Doors will open one hour before the show. Tickets are $45 to $85 at www.parxcasino.com/xcitecenter. Idol and Stevens’ undeniable chemistry and seemingly limitless energy, founded on a mutual love of punk, rockabilly and dance music, has produced decades of successful tours and iconic hits including “Rebel Yell,” “White Wed ding,” “Dancing With Myself,” “Eyes Without A Face,” “Flesh For Fantasy,” “Cradle Of Love” and more. Fans across North America will now have an opportunity to enjoy their hits, deeper album cuts and songs that influenced them both in a new and intimate setting. Plus, hear
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farce.” [The New York Times]; … a he third production of the complex, unnerving look at the 2018-2019 season at The Stageway real people navigate between crafters, Rebecca Gilman’s … racism and the perils of politi“Spinning Into Butter,” opened on cal correctness. …” [Time]. Friday, February 1, 2019. The story “Spinning Into Butter” was comunfolds at Belmont, a tranquil libmissioned by Chicago’s Goodman eral arts college in Vermont, where Sarah Daniels, Dean of Students, See Jen Allegra and Jim Broyles suddenly finds herself faced with in The Stagecrafters’ production a super-explosive situation after of Rebecca Gilman’s “Spinning one of the handful of African-AmerInto Butter,” running through ican students at the school has February 17, 2019. reported receiving hate mail. As Photo/Sara Stewart threats and abrasive confrontations among faculty and students Theatre, premiering there in 1999, multiply, the narrative, with inand quickly garnering several sight and wry humor, tracks Sarah’s awards from various associations. attempts to navigate a maze of The play premiered in New York posturing, accusations, and soulat Lincoln Center in July of 2000, searching on political correctness. and through the following two The author exhibits a bold willingyears was produced to signal acness to expose pervasive and longclaim at a large number of regionstanding racial tensions, as reflectal theaters, as well as the Royal ed by the response of numerous critics: “… a brave, honest, intelligent, and important play …” [New York]; Court Theatre in London. A London critic had this to say: “… [this play] makes “… as many twists as a farce, and that’s what it is – a post-comic, post-tragic See “Spinning Into Butter” at The Stagecrafters page 4
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