Barnstormers Theater will present

Nuncrackers by Dan Goggin

Nuncrackers is presented as the first TV special taped in the Cable Access Studio built by Reverend Mother in the convent basement. It stars the nuns you love, plus Father Virgil and four of Mount Saint Helen’s most talented students.

Nuncrackers, the fourth show in Dan Goggin’s series of Nunsense musicals, premiered at Chanhassen Dinner Theatre in Minneapolis, MN in October 1998.

Dec 6, 7, 13, 14 @ 8pm

Dec 8 @ 2pm

Ticket link Tickets (barnstormerstheater.com)

Jared Reed performs in the fourth annual reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with original music by Drew Petersen. Originally produced by Curio Theatre Company in West Philadelphia, Jared has crafted the piece from the reading version enacted by Dickens himself.

• Saturday, December 21, 2024
• 7-8:30 PM
• Tickets: $20 at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Dramatic Reading — Media Arts Council

Location: Delaware County Institute of Science, 11 Veterans Square, Media, PA,

Broadway’s classic, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, is an international sensation that has been produced in 37 countries worldwide. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage version includes all of the wonderful songs and characters we’ve grown to know and love. SALT’s production is now onstage through Dec. 15.

• Saturday, November 23, 10 AM and 2 PM
• Sunday, November 24, 10 AM and 2 PM
• Friday, November 29, 7 PM
• Saturday, November 20,  2 PM and 7 PM
• Sunday, December 1, 2 PM
• Saturday, December 7, 10 AM and 2 PM
• Sunday, December 8, 10 AM and 2 PM
• Saturday, December 14, 10 AM and 2 PM

• Sunday, December 15, 10 AM and 2 PM

If You Go:

• This production takes place at the Chester Springs location: 1645 Art School Road, Chester Springs PA 19425.

• As part of a 10 year partnership with Chester County Food Bank, SALT will be collecting Hot breakfast cereals (oatmeal, cream of wheat, grits, etc.) for the Chester County Food Bank at every performance, as we believe everyone in Chester County should have “SALT” on their table. No glass containers please. $1.00 from every ticket sale is directly donated to the Chester County Food Bank.

• Tickets can be purchased at www.saltpa.com/beautyandthebeast

• All ticket sales are final.
  If you need handicap accessibility, purchase tickets on a computer (not a mobile device) so that you can select your seats. Choose seats in Row A  and email jelliott@saltpa.com to coordinate letting you in the accessible entrance (the main entrance is not handicap accessible).

Colonial Playhouse presents “The Homecoming: A Christmas Story” by Earl Hammer Jr. Dec. 5-15. Micki Sharpe directs.

Known on television as The Waltons, they’re called The Spencers in the original book, which is how they’re named here.

On Christmas Eve 1933, the Spencers prepare for the holiday, but they are becoming increasingly worried because the father, Clay Spencer, who was forced to take work in another part of the state, has not yet returned home.

Ticket link: Current Show – Colonial Playhouse

The perfect Thanksgiving play put together by a group of clueless but well-meaning educators? The result is “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse onstage at The Stagecrafters.

Samantha Leah Smith, Sarah Heddins, Daniel Romano and Ryan Kirchner in “The Thanksgiving Play” at The Stagecrafters. Photo by Joanne Davis.

“The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse, premiered on Broadway in 2023 at the Helen Hayes Theater. The production marked the first time that a female Native American playwright had a play produced on Broadway.

FastHorse wrote the play in response to the prevailing view that her plays were not producible because of the lack of Native American talent. “The Thanksgiving Play” treats issues such as underrepresentation of indigenous actors as well as shedding light on misguided attempts to represent Native Americans in American society without using any Native American actors.

Sarah Heddins and Samantha Leah Smith in “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa Fast. Photo by Joanne Davis

The Stagecrafters Theater, 8130 Germantown Ave. (Chestnut Hill) 

Performance dates: Nov 22, 23, 29, 30, Dec 5, 6 & 7 @ 8pm

Nov 24, Dec 1, 7 & 8 @ 2pm

$26 ($1.50 processing) $30 at the door

www.thestagecrafters.org

Or call 215 247 9913

Discounts available for Seniors and Students with ID

Walnut Street Theatre (WST) continues their 216th Season with the charming story of Buddy the elf. Travel with Buddy from the North Pole all the way to New York City in ELF The Broadway Musical. The show begins previews on Nov. 19, opens Nov. 27, and runs through Dec. 29. 

Nic Rouleau as Buddy the Elf in “Elf The Broadway Musical” at Walnut Street Theatre.

Based on one of the most beloved holiday films and top streamed films of all time, ELF The Broadway Musical is the story of Buddy, who mistakenly crawled into Santa’s bag as a baby and was raised as an elf! Buddy is unaware that he is actually a human, until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, he embarks on a journey to New York City with dreams to find his birth father and discover his true identity. What’s an adopted elf to do when he realizes his father is on Santa’s ‘naughty’ list and his half-brother doesn’t believe that there is a Santa Claus? It’s up to Buddy to save Christmas in this hilarious and charming Broadway musical! 

Based on the New Line Cinema film by David Berenbaum and with a book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin, music by Matthew Sklar, and lyrics by Chad Beguelin. The  show premiered on Broadway in 2010, where it was embraced as a hilarious, charming adaptation of a holiday classic. The show features a selection of original songs infused with holiday cheer, including “Happy All The Time,” “Sparklejollytwinklejingley,” and “Nobody Cares About Santa.” This holiday season, it’s up to one very tall elf to save Christmas. 

Making his Walnut debut is Broadway and West End star Nic Rouleau as Buddy the Elf, a human who’s been raised at the North Pole since infancy.  

If You Go:

Nov. 19 – Dec. 29, 2024 

Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Tickets:  215-574-3550 or walnutstreettheatre.org/season/show/elf-the-broadway-musical