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Year 31, No. 27
Celebrating 31 Years of Community News
March 9 – March 15, 2016
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Players Club of Swarthmore Presents “Angels Main Line Art Center Debuts NEWS HERE! in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches” Gigs @ The Gallery Series Award-Winning Drama Confronts 1980s AIDS/HIV Epidemic That Afflicted Gay Community he Players Club of Swarthmore will present the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, “Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches,” by Tony Kushner, March 18 to April 2 for ten performances at The Players Club of Swarthmore, 614 Fairview Avenue in Swarthmore. Buy tickets at www.pcstheater.org. Directed by Dave Ebersole, “Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches,” is the beginning of Kushner’s intimate epic that focuses on the HIV/AIDs epidemic that afflicted the gay community in New York City in the 1980s and depicts the politics and social failures surrounding the disease and its emergence in the United States. PCS will present the conclusion of this work, “Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika,” in November, with Ebersole returning as director. “Angels in America, Part I: The Players Club of Swarthmore presents the Pulitzer Prize and Millennium Approaches” tells Tony Award-winning play, “Angels in America, Part I: Millennium the story of a diverse group Approaches,” by Tony Kushner, March 18 to April 2. of New Yorkers, including Performing are Ed Donlevie and Lizzy Dalton-Negron. Louis, (Ryan Goulden, Upper Darby) a liberal Jew wracked with guilt for leaving Prior (Ed Donlevie, Devon), his AIDS-infected lover; Joe (Taylor Darden, Philadelphia), a married Mormon lawyer beginning to accept that he is gay; Harper (Heather Ferrel, Wilmington), Joe’s valium-addicted wife; Belize (Walter Hamilton McCready, Chester), a compassionate, ex-drag-queen nurse; and the HIV-infected Roy Cohn (Steve Connor, Springfield), the real-life Jewish anti-Semite and homosexual infamous as the rabid anti-Communist attorney of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. In addition, Joe’s mother Hannah (Rhonda Goldstein, Abington Twp.), arrives from Salt Lake City hoping to rescue Joe’s and Harper’s marriage. Meanwhile, AIDS-stricken and abandoned, Prior is visited by The Angel (Lizzy Dalton-Negron, Glen Mills), who invites him to become a prophet. “Mr. Kushner has written the most
Cabaret with Nancy Weiss Monday, March 14
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Tangle Movement Arts Presents Dynamic New Circus-Theater Show: RetroAct angle Movement Arts presents RetroAct, a dynamic new circus-theater show from Philadelphia’s innovative aerial artists. RetroAct’s ten-woman cast mixes traditional circus arts, like trapeze and acrobatics, with dance, theater, and spoken word, to explore female strength, identity, and relationships between women. RetroAct is a circus-theater remix of the most exciting moments from Tangle’s five years of aerial dance theater. RetroAct’s acrobats travel through Tangle Movement Arts simmering duets, intricate balancing acts, a celebration of campy drag traditions, and a suspended-in-air meditation presents RetroAct, a dynamic on the passage of time. A dreamer wakes and dresses for new circus-theater show from Philadelphia’s innovative work 20 feet in the air. And two women work out their frustration and flirtation in a dance that traverses the room and aerial artists on March 17, 18 & 19. Shown is Tiffany reaches the ceiling. Holder. Photo/Michael “RetroAct dives into the past, present, and future of Tangle’s Ermilio aerial dance theater,” says Tangle founder Lauren Rile Smith. “We’re proud of five years of Philadelphia-based circus arts highlighting diverse examples of female strength, and connections between women. Tangle aims to push the boundaries of what you expect to see in a circus show.” Joining RetroAct as guest artists are Megan Gendell, an internationally performing trapeze artist, and Nina Giacobbe, a Philadelphia-based dance and theater artist and longtime Tangle collaborator. Tangle Movement Arts is a circus arts company with a contemporary twist, whose work integrates traditional circus like trapeze and aerial silks with dance, theater, and live music
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The Gigs @ The Gallery series will kick off with a night of Cabaret with Nancy Weiss on Monday, March 14 at 7 p.m. at Main Line Art Center. Photo/Anne Sherwood ain Line Art Center in Haverford is known for showcasing the talents of visual artists in their awardwinning galleries, but beginning this spring, the Center will highlight artists of a different kind with the launch of Gigs @ The Gallery. The concert series will kick off with a night of Cabaret with Nancy Weiss on Monday, March 14 at 7 p.m., and will offer attendees a treat for the eyes AND ears. Singer Nancy Weiss has been performing on stage since she was 8 years old, starting with “Home On The Range” at summer camp. In the intervening decades, she has performed at Philadelphia’s leading Cabaret restaurants throughout the city, the Main Line, and the internationally-known venue Don’t Tell Mama in New York City. Her credits include raising a
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