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Inis Nua Presents American Premiere of Our Few and Evil Days Performances at Proscenium Theatre at The Drake April 25 - May 13, 2018 nis Nua Theatre Company will finish 2018 on a high note with the suspenseful and eerie Our Few and Evil Days by Mark O’Rowe. When does love become obsession? Can obsession ever be love?
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The perfect family photo is about to slip out of the frame as daughter Adele (Amy Frear) brings home a new beau to meet her parents, Margaret (Nancy Boykin) and Michael (Andrew Criss), in Inis Nua Theatre Company’s American premiere of “Our Few and Evil Days” by Mark O’Rowe, playing through May 13, 2018, at The Proscenium Theatre at The Drake. Photo/ Plate 3 Photography/Kathryn Raines
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Find out in this “unnerving, arresting and shape-shifting play” (The Irish Times). Our Few and Evil Days opens Friday, April 27, at 8 p.m. with previews on Wednesday, April 25, and Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. It runs for a total of 15 performances through Sunday, May 13, 2018. All shows are at the Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 302 South Hicks Street. South Hicks Street is right The Philly POPS 2017-18 season ends with a Classic Rock next to The Drake apartment building at 1512 Spruce Street. sing along, featuring Broadway power vocalist Bryce Ryness Adele is a young woman with a good, open relationship with her parents (or so she thinks). and the 170-voice Festival Chorus, April 27-29 at the She takes Dennis, her boyfriend of one month, to meet them for dinner, but Dennis has ulteKimmel Center. Photo/Jesse Ashton rior motives of his own, and her family is not the cookie-cutter, traditional picture of a family she pretends. What begins as a simple dinner becomes something more like a thriller, he Philly POPS 2017-18 season ends with a Classic Rock until eventually the story wends its way to a very dark and disturbing place. Secrets are sing along, featuring Broadway power vocalist Bryce revealed, and the past comes unburied, as the evil Adele’s parents try to hide moves jarRyness and the 170-voice Festival Chorus. POPS Rocks ringly to the surface. runs April 27-29 at the Kimmel Center. At stake are the values we hold dear of family and love: What kinds of love can we accept? The audience is encouraged to sing along to the most memHow do the loves we think we understand, like love between family members, contain inner orable songs of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Queen, and darknesses we’d rather ignore? Is there a difference between loving someone and wanting more. The show features hits like “Satisfaction,” “Stairway to
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Sacred Arts Festival Features Museum Open House and Demos of Arts, Music & Culture Admission is $10 adults, $8 xperience religious art in seniors/students with I.D., FREE the making at Glencairn for Museum members and chilMuseum, 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn 19009, durThe Venerable Losang ing its annual Sacred Arts Samten, here with children Festival on Sunday, April 22, with a previous sand mandala from 1 p.m. till 5 p.m. The fesat Glencairn, was the first tival features an array of demBuddhist given permission by onstrations throughout the the Dalai Lama to make afternoon, from glassblowing Mandalas in the West. He and icon writing to solo-voice will create and then music and the creation of a ritualistically dismantle a sand mandala, that give visimandala at Glencairn, from tors a unique view of many April 18 through the 22. beautiful expressions of faith For more information on from various cultures. Losang Samten visit This event is also a rare ophttp://losangsamten.com. portunity to experience the Photo/Glencairn Museum Museum’s vast collection of religious art and artifacts – dren 3 and under. It includes and the castle itself – while all festival demonstrations and touring its many galleries and access to the galleries and the public spaces. At their leisure, tower as well as the Museum’s visitors are invited to explore room by room, take in the exciting view from Glencairn’s tower or relax in the 15-minute orientation video and cell-phone audio tour of the collections. Castle Café. See Sacred Arts Festival at Glencairn Museum page 11
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