Date: Sunday, May 4, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Practitioner: Matthew Armond
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Investment: $35
Register here: Group Sound Healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls and Rav Vast
Media Arts Council (MAC) continues its new playreading series with ‘Cause It’s My Birthday, B*tch!’ by Michael Roche
Andrew’s wish to happily celebrate his birthday is upended when his estranged brother Ryan re-enters his life like a tornado, asking to crash on his couch for a few days. As the two brothers communicate, it is unclear if Ryan really wants to make amends, or steal a valuable baseball that was given to Andrew from their grandmother. To add fuel to the fire, Andrew’s outspoken friend Jane has arrived, and Ryan has kidnapped a Delivery Guy.
Date: Thursday, May 8 reading begins 7:30 pm
Location: Media Fellowship House
Tickets: Pay what you wish, suggested $10 donation
Michael Roche received a Musical Theater degree (CUA), Masters in Theatre (Villanova), and has appeared in commercials, film and stage productions. His musicals High School Never Ends was showcased at the Producers Club in NYC, and Monster was part of the MusiCoLab 10thShowcase at the Drake Theater (Philadelphia). Monster also had a concert reading at Footlighters Theater.
Reading begins 7:30 PM
Tickets: $10.
More information: MAC Original Playreading Series: ‘Cause It’s My Birthday, B*tch! by Michael Roche — Media Arts Council
Media Fellowship House, 302 S Jackson St, Media, PA
Susan Hart, LMT, RM, CMCP has been drumming since 2001 after attending her first drum circle and was hooked instantly by the joyous energy. She will lead a Drum Circle on Saturday, May 17, 2025 at Reality Pilates Reformer, 241 Main Street, Royersford, PA. The drumming will take place 4:30-5:30 pm at Reality Pilates Reformer, 241 Main Street, Royersford, PA. There is plenty of street parking as well as two lots nearby.
“Incorruptible” by Michael Hollinger will be directed by Cathy Gibbons Mostek at the Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050. A hysterically funny dark comedy about the dark ages.
Dani Kennedy is featured in “Incorruptible” at Spotlight Theater.
Dates: May 9, 10, 11*, 16, 17, 18*, 2025
Evenings at 8 PM – *Matinee at 3 PM
Tickets $20; Seniors (65+) and Students (High School & College w/student id) $17.
Note the new performance location: Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050
Beginning May 14, Hedgerow Theatre Company presents the regional premiere of “Endlings: by Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter Celine Song. Directed by Kalina Ko, the play follows two generations of Korean women grappling with the weight of their pasts, the loss of their cultural heritage, and the complexities of identity, all while confronting the haunting question of what it means to be remembered.
Endlings is set to run from May 13 to June 1.
Song has written and directed stage and film productions depicting beautiful explorations of the perils of the human condition. Audiences may recognize her as the writer and director of the 2023 romantic drama Past Lives, which earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. As a playwright, she has received critical acclaim for her work, including her first major production, Endlings, which premiered in 2019 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The play led to her becoming a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the oldest and largest playwrighting prize for women writing for English-speaking theater.
Endlings is set on two different islands. On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos – sea women – spend their dying days continuing a fading ancient tradition, diving into the sea to fish with nothing but a knife. On the Island of Manhattan, Korean-Canadian playwright Ha Young (Shin) struggles to finish a new play as she navigates the expectation that she write more “authentic” stories inspired by her identity. Endlings poses a thought-provoking question: who gets to tell stories, and how do those stories shape our understanding of the world?
Hedgerow’s regional premiere presentation of Endlings features an award-winning cast of stage actors. Portraying the three haenyeos are Helen Hayes Award-winning Washington, D.C.-based actor Tuyết Thị Phạm as Go Min, New York-based actor Gray Choi as Sook Ja, and New York-based actor and dancer Shigeko Sara Suga as Han Sol. Sarah Shin appears as the play’s struggling playwright Ha Young. Rounding out the cast in various ensemble roles are Philadelphia-based actors Scott Berkowitz, Ethan Goonewardene, Paul Harrold, John Harvey, and Kevin McCann.
Media Theatre presents
Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights” as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night,” “Alone at the Drive-In Movie” recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. An eight-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals, along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among the world’s most popular musicals.
Tickets and more information online at www.mediatheatre.org .
Venue Details:
The Media Theatre
104 E. State Street
Media, PA 19063
PCS Theater is thrilled to present The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, directed by Kayla Bowe, on the Raymond W. Smith Second Stage from May 2 to May 17, 2025. This exciting production, featuring limited seating and an intimate experience, will transport audiences into the world of a high school girls’ soccer team navigating the complexities of girlhood, autonomy, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
The PCS cast of “The Wolves.” Photo by Abrham Bogale
“The Wolves” centers on a group of teenage girls, their soccer practices, and the conversations that unfold between them. From debating pads versus tampons to grappling with larger world issues like genocide, the play illuminates the complexity of being sixteen, where every moment is both incredibly significant and fleeting.
With overlapping dialogue and an unfiltered approach, The Wolves gives a raw and honest portrayal of a group of girls creating their own space, claiming autonomy, and defining themselves outside the influence of the male gaze or societal expectations.
The Wolves is not just a play about a high school soccer team. It is about the small, unfiltered moments of girlhood that happen when adults aren’t around to listen. Reaching for the right words; dealing with things bigger than yourself. For the next ninety minutes, I invite you to let yourself step onto the field with them and feel what it is like to be a part of every conversation, every silence, and every moment. – Director Kayla Bowe
The talented cast features: Hope Smalley, Ali Walker, Ivy Meyer, Janea Hundley, Anna Fiscarelli-Mintz, Jessie Demmert, Salma Elwy, Angelina Canavan, Autumn Scouten, Kathy Gilbert (Soccer Mom), Alternates Courtney Bundens and Gab Fischetti.
Tri-State Jazz welcomes Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi, with Rob Adkins on bass and Jay Lepley on drums to round out a quartet. As always, the concert will feature piano two-and four-hands, traditional ragtime, stride and boogie woogie, with forays in the Great American Songbook besides.
Haddonfield United Methodist Church
29 Warwick Road, Haddonfield, NJ 08033
More info at: Tri-State Jazz Society (tristatejazz.org)
The 85+ members of the all-volunteer Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey will perform May the Fourth Be With You!
This symphonic celebration of John Williams’ epic scores goes beyond the silver screen to perform some of John Williams’ greatest works that will transcend time. Concert will include works from Harry Potter, E.T. – The Extraterrestrial, Schindler’s List, Superman, Indiana Jones….. and of course Star Wars.
The concert will take place at Eastern Regional High School
Voorhees Township, NJ. Free parking is available on site, and refreshments are available for purchase.
For tickets and more information, visit www.psnj.org