May 6 Caked Up Comedy
Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm –
$5, FREE for Members
Our intimate venue provides the perfect setting for an exciting and memorable night out. Caked Up Comedy features an eclectic line-up of local and traveling comics that will have you keeled over in tears
May 18 Your Sunday Best!
8:00pm doors, 9:00pm show
No Cover!
Your Sunday Best is our long-running, ever-evolving evening of variety comedy featuring Philly’s finest actors, stand-ups and musicians trying new things and supporting one another.
On View in the Plays & Players Gallery
Cyrus K Stratton, De-Artis Key Curated by Gigi Lovond
The Spring Show runs through May 31 2025
VISITING COMPANIES
May 2 – 4 The Workhouse Ward by Lady Gregory
Friday & Saturday at 7:00p & Sunday at 2:00pm
Tickets are Pay What You Will at the door
Join Plays & Players Members for a staged reading of The Workhouse Ward by Lady Gregory!
Directed by Peg Mecham
Performed by JOHN CANNON, RAY SMITH, CATHERINE MARY MORONEY
Two paupers, Mike MacInerney and Michael Miskell, both confined to their adjacent beds in a hospital ward, are bitter enemies. However when the sister of Mike MacInerney arrives and offers to take him home to work on her farm, he suggests she bring the other Michael also, as they never synchronise their periods of illness, thus she would always have an able hand. She refuses to take the two, and Mike MacInerney insists on staying with his ‘companion’. As soon as her back is turned to go out the door, they begin their bitter arguments once again
May 5th Norman David & The Eleventet Jazz
Doors 6:45pm, Sets at 7:15pm & 9:00pm
$10, good for both sets
Final Set of the 2024/2025 Season!
Monday Night Jazz is back again! Our longtime resident jazz band, Norman David and The Eleventet are back in the Skinner Studio. Come hang out and listen to some sweet jams.
May 15 – 24 PASSION Renaissance Music Theatre
Shows on Thursday – Saturday at 7:00pm
Tickets $20
Discover the power of love in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1994 Tony Award winning musical PASSION.
A wondrously complex landscape of the human heart is the subject of this haunting, intensely emotional chamber opera that is set in nineteenth-century, war-torn Italy. It tells of the passionate affair between a handsome army captain, separated from his beautiful mistress who is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs about love when he becomes the object of the obsessive, unrelenting passions of Fosca, his Colonel’s plain, sickly cousin.
June 3 – 29 Franklin’s Key Pig Iron Theatre Company
Showtimes & Ticket Prices Varied
The internationally acclaimed Pig Iron, an award-winning physical theater company based in Philadelphia, presents the world premiere of a new adventure imagining Ben Franklin’s legacy in an alternate universe where science and magic collide.
During the War of Independence, the British feared that Ben Franklin could control the weather. Franklin’s Key asks: what if that were true? In an alternate universe where Benjamin Franklin’s undiscovered technology has been hidden for centuries underneath Philadelphia’s landmarks, a mystery is unfolding. Two high school prodigies—Temple, a self-taught scientist, and her brother Arturo, a brilliant musician—find themselves caught in a struggle between secret societies dedicated to safeguarding Franklin’s discoveries.
