One performance only: March 7, 2025

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Allens Lane invites you to step back in time to 1900s Britain in this staged reading of an infectiously funny farce, MARJORIE IS DEAD written by Pryianka Shetty. Inspired by Fry & Laurie and the works of P.G. Wodehouse, this play follows the outbreak of a deadly “coroner’s virus” in the unsuspecting Tilbury family, whose lives are as convoluted as they are in peril. Watch as the doctor, the Colonel, the solicitor, and a roguish ne’er-do-well run circles around each other in a hilarious whirlwind of mixed-up identities, flaming passions, overheard conversations, and misunderstandings.

Tickets: Marjorie Is Dead – Events – Allens Lane Art Center

About Allens Lane Art Center: Since its founding in 1953, Allens Lane Art Center has been a cornerstone of the Mt. Airy community by bringing residents together to participate in and experience the arts. Whether it’s art classes for children or adults, art exhibitions, or cutting-edge plays on the main stage, there is something for everyone at Allens Lane. Allens Lane Art Center offers opportunities for people to explore their creative potential. 

PCS’  Improv Troupe Schedule:
February 21st, 7pm
March 15th (Late Night)
April 12th (Late Night)
May 24th (Late Night)

Information and tickets at Improv: Welcome to Mt. Pieces – PCS Theater

The Media Theatre is delighted to announce an enchanting evening with Broadway star Brandi Burkhardt, as she brings her acclaimed concert, “Finding Wonderland,” to life on Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 7 p.m.. This one-night-only event promises an unforgettable journey through music, storytelling, and inspiration.

Join Brandi Burkhardt on an intimate and heartfelt journey through the roles she never got to play, the ones that shaped her path, and the behind-the-scenes moments that defined her career. From her time on Broadway to her adventures in TV and symphony halls, Brandi shares the untold stories, laughter, and lessons that brought her here. Now stepping into the next chapter as a songwriter, she invites you to explore her creative evolution, celebrating the dreams that led her to find her own wonderland. With her warm stage presence and spellbinding voice, Burkhardt will transport audiences to a world of wonder.

Tickets for “Finding Wonderland” are now available for purchase online at www.mediatheatre.org or by calling the box office at (610) 891-0100. Prices start at $35, with VIP packages available for $65, including premium seating and a post-show meet-and-greet with Brandi Burkhardt.

Venue Details:
The Media Theatre
104 E. State Street
Media, PA 19063

The Art Deco Society of New York (ADSNY) leads the global celebration of the 100^th anniversary of one of the 20^th Century’s most influential design movements. The Art Deco Centennial commemorates the enduring legacy of this bold, innovative aesthetic, first introduced at the 1925 Paris Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. From its debut to today, Art Deco profoundly shaped New York City’s iconic skyline and cultural identity.

ADSNY, a non-profit organization founded in 1980, advocates for the appreciation, understanding, celebration, documentation, and preservation of Art Deco architecture, design, and culture in New York City and around the world.

ADSNY’s year-long celebration includes tours, talks, exhibitions, school programs, and special events, including a four-day immersive spring weekend highlighting the Art Deco architecture and design that continues to define New York.

Art Deco gained global popularity in the 1920s. From New York’s Deco architectural treasures––the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall––to graphic arts, fashion, interior design, jewelry, music, and motion pictures, the City’s monumental contribution to Art Deco was transformational.

The clean lines, luxurious materials, geometric motifs, curvilinear streamlined forms, sharply defined outlines, and bold use of color quickly became synonymous with New York’s modernity and sophistication, making Art Deco the ideal style for the booming metropolis.

Upcoming Events

Brunch at Chez Josephine

Sunday, February 23, noon to 3:00 PM

In-person event

Deco enthusiasts step back in time for a champagne brunch at New York’s legendary Chez Josephine. Founded in 1986 by Jean-Claude Baker, Josephine Baker’s adopted son, Chez Josephine is a tribute to the legendary entertainer. We will enjoy live piano music in an intimate private room offering a unique Parisian setting with its blue-tin ceiling, red velvet walls, and cavalcade of chandeliers.

Selling Good Design: The Influence of French Art Deco in America’s Interiors

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 6:30PM to 8:00PM EST

In-person and virtual event on Zoom

ADSNY presents an illustrated lecture about the influence of French Art Deco on designers throughout the United States after the 1925 Paris Exposition. Marilyn F. Friedman, a design and decorative arts historian, will explore how concepts from the exposition were presented to the American public by museums, department stores, and designers’ organizations.

Deco Treasures at the Met

Saturday, March 22, 2025 6:30PM to 8:00PM

Virtual event on Zoom

Holly Phillips, senior collections manager for acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents a selection of seldom-seen Art Deco treasures from the Met’s Watson Library. We’ll see catalogues associated with the Paris 1925 Exposition including copies of Les Arts décoratifs modernes, rare trade publications related to the exposition, catalogs by manufacturers including Lalique, Ruhlmann, Brandt and Sèvres, and other Art Deco texts on architecture, jewelry, interior design and American publishers’ bindings.

Additional events will be announced throughout the year. Learn more about ADSNY and the year-long celebration of 100 years of Art Deco at www.artdeco.org

First Word on Horror is a fifteen-part documentary series that profiles five of the finest horror writers working today.

Across multiple episodes, each author discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques while reading one of their short stories. As fact and fiction blend, secrets are revealed and the delicate alchemy that turns human experience into creative expression begins to emerge.

The series is a love letter to writers of all ilk, to the primacy of the human experience, and to the simple act of reading a damned good story.

The authors profiled are New York Times bestsellers, multi-award winners, and cult favorites. In this first season, they are Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron, and Mariana Enriquez.

Through the authors’ lives the series takes viewers from a harrowing Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska to the lurking terror of growing up under the Argentinian dictatorship; from the unbridled energy of the early DC punk scene to an ill-fated hunting expedition on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana.

First Word on Horror is directed by Emmy and WGA winning writer and filmmaker Philip Gelatt.

First Word on Horror Episode Release Dates:

• Feb. 7 – Stephen Graham Jones
  
• Feb. 21 – Paul Tremblay
  
• March 14 – Elizabeth Hand
  
• April 4 – Laird Barron
  
• April 24 – Mariana Enriquez.

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