Broadway and Off-Broadway's best take on the songs of pop sensation Ben Folds, whose offbeat cast of characters, biting lyrics and virtuosic melodies have rocked and touched the music world for over a decade.  Back by popular demand after selling out its NYMF 2006 performance, with more great performers and twice as many songs, the concert will feature such well-known Broadway talents as Manoel Felciano (Sweeney Todd), Will Chase (High Fidelity), Lillias White (Tony winner for The Life), Greg Naughton (Alive in the World), Chip Zien (Falsettos), Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q), Ashley Parker Angel (Hairspray), Stephen Bogardus (Falsettos), Kevyn Morrow (Ragtime), Bob Stillman (Grey Gardens), Michael Arden (The Times They Are A Changin’), J. Robert Spencer (Jersey Boys), Michael Winther (Mamma Mia!), and Liz McCartney (Taboo).  Join us at 7pm Monday, March 26 at the Zipper Theatre! General admission tickets are $50. V.I.P. tickets (with a post-show...

Schedule: Mar 26th, 7:00 pm

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Some of the best musical theatre songs aren't from musicals at all, but the pop/rock cannon.  Come to a night featuring the best characters and story songs from diverse singers and songwriters like Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright, Stephen Merritt, and dozens more.

Schedule: Jun 18th, 7:00 pm

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The Angle of the Sun: a musical about the seductive tug of art and love; ambition and sex; Soho lofts and Arkansas streams.  With joie de vivre, reckless abandon and a compulsive need to laugh at life, painter Jan Frankel moves through the fog of first love to the bracing clarity of honest artistic vision.  

Schedule: Sep 17th, 7:30 pm, Sep 18th, 4:30 pm, Sep 18th, 8:00 pm, Sep 22nd, 1:00 pm, Sep 26th, 1:00 pm, Sep 28th, 8:00 pm, Sep 29th, 1:00 pm

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A sold-out hit at the 2006 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, this hilarious musical follows a community theater group as they attempt to stage a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.  From chaotic auditions to a climactic tap off, bad theater has never been so good!

Schedule: Sep 18th, 8:00 pm, Sep 21st, 8:00 pm, Sep 23rd, 4:30 pm, Sep 23rd, 8:00 pm, Sep 25th, 4:30 pm, Sep 28th, 11:00 pm, Sep 29th, 4:30 pm

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The heartwarming untold story of World War II British war brides and the American soldiers they loved. Back Home follows the women's  two year struggle to be reunited with their husbands.  The Philadelphia Inquirer called Back Home  "the little musical that could " and The Norwich (CT) Bulletin   honored the muiscal as "Best of the Year."

Schedule: Sep 24th, 8:00 pm, Sep 25th, 1:00 pm, Sep 26th, 4:30 pm, Sep 28th, 1:00 pm, Sep 29th, 8:00 pm, Sep 30th, 1:00 pm, Sep 30th, 4:30 pm

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Bernice Bobs Her Mullet is a fun, makeover-musical about a young redneck who leaves her podunk hometown to experience life in the big city...Little Rock!  And it isn't long before she discovers the scariest part of urban living... spoiled teenagers!  Soon, Bernice gets swept up in the glamor and politics of popularity and learns the hard way that you shouldn't let it go to your head.
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"

Schedule: Sep 19th, 8:00 pm, Sep 22nd, 8:00 pm, Sep 23rd, 1:00 pm, Sep 25th, 8:00 pm, Sep 27th, 4:30 pm, Sep 30th, 1:00 pm

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David lives in his bathroom. He never comes out. His mother feeds him thin, flat food she can slide under the door. He has everything he needs. David has obsessive-compulsive disorder and he's not going anywhere... until he meets Julie... and discovers that there might be something - or someone - on the other side of the door that will make it worth opening...

Schedule: Sep 17th, 8:00 pm, Sep 20th, 9:00 pm, Sep 21st, 4:30 pm, Sep 21st, 8:00 pm, Sep 22nd, 8:00 pm, Sep 23rd, 8:00 pm, Sep 26th, 4:30 pm, Sep 28th, 4:30 pm, Sep 29th, 1:00 pm

at The 45th Street Theatre (Mainstage)

An affectionate and hilarious send-up of bad 50s sci-fi movies, The Brain From Planet X tells the story of an alien invasion circa 1958.  A Brain and its two alien cohorts, Zubrick and Yoni, arrive on Earth and  plan to take over the San Fernando Valley --starting with the happy nuclear family, the Bunsons.  It's the first step on the road to their quest of taking over the entire planet and to destroying the family unit.  It's tuneful, toe-tapping, and terrifyingly fun.

Schedule: Sep 20th, 8:00 pm, Sep 21st, 8:00 pm, Sep 25th, 1:00 pm, Sep 26th, 4:30 pm, Sep 28th, 4:30 pm, Sep 30th, 8:00 pm

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Jane Austen's novel comes to life in this delightful musical comedy.  In the twon of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse sets about matchmaking her protege to the town's vicar, but the scheme backfires.  Mistaken notions of who loves whom turn Emma's world upside-downb until she discovers what she had long denied: Cupid's bow is pointed at herself, and love can be found from an unexpected source.

Schedule: Oct 2nd, 8:00 pm, Oct 3rd, 1:00 pm, Oct 4th, 4:30 pm, Oct 4th, 8:00 pm, Oct 5th, 8:00 pm, Oct 7th, 1:00 pm

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Long Island's Fiorelli Vineyard is the setting for a vintner's wife's mid-life crisis and the 'unholy' way she tries to resolve it.  While you're there, you'll find a 9-year-old wine prodigy who talks to saints, a 13-yr-old karate kid with cerebral palsy who gets the girl,  a lesbian wedding, and -wait for it- actual Divine Intervention!      All this plus a kick-ass pop/rock score. Come laugh, cry and rock out with the Fiorellis and decide for yourself  what makes a family!

Schedule: Sep 27th, 8:00 pm, Sep 28th, 1:00 pm, Sep 30th, 4:30 pm, Oct 2nd, 4:30 pm, Oct 3rd, 8:00 pm, Oct 5th, 4:30 pm, Oct 5th, 8:00 pm, Oct 6th, 4:30 pm

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Sex, guilt and opera make for a hot summer in South Philly!  When Francis Geminiani comes home from Harvard to his working-class neighborhood, he faces his biggest challenge yet: coming out to his macho father, Fran. Based on the long-running Broadway comedy, Gemini the Musical features a cast of unforgettable characters and a score as tasty as good South Philly gravy.

Schedule: Sep 18th, 8:00 pm, Sep 21st, 1:00 pm, Sep 22nd, 8:00 pm, Sep 25th, 8:00 pm, Sep 29th, 4:30 pm, Oct 1st, 8:00 pm

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A boozing, womanizing crooner is haunted by the misdeeds of his past in this sexy and swingin' comedy, set at the end of radio's golden age.  It's 1956, and caddish crooner Dean Newhouse's once-successful radio variety show is facing a dangerous new foe...Television.  As Dean struggles to keep his show afloat, his bitter and double-crossed cast plots his come-uppance, in this innovative and hysterical reinvention of the controversial classic Don Giovanni!

Schedule: Sep 24th, 8:00 pm, Sep 30th, 8:00 pm, Oct 1st, 1:00 pm, Oct 2nd, 1:00 pm, Oct 5th, 1:00 pm, Oct 5th, 11:00 pm, Oct 6th, 8:00 pm

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What makes a hero?

Mothers and sons, a blood sport and a war: this potent material is the subject matter of this new Australian musical. From the battlefields of World War 1 to the boxing rings and music hall stages of Australia and America, "The Good Fight” plots an epic journey of two young men. One a national icon, the other a mere soldier. They are caught between their personal beliefs and those of a war mongering government.

The Music Theatre Department at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts is Australia’s most prestigious music theatre course. WAAPA is honoured to present their graduating students in this powerful work.

Schedule: Sep 20th, 8:00 pm, Sep 21st, 4:30 pm, Sep 22nd, 4:30 pm

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A shy mall security guard woos an even shyer waitress in this tragicomic tale of misfit love, set in Little Egypt, Illinois, in the early 1980's. Pushed together and then pulled apart by their brash, oversexed relatives, and their own crippling insecurities, Little Egypt follows the full ride of life: funny, sad, and when you least expect it, magic.

Schedule: Sep 27th, 8:00 pm, Sep 28th, 1:00 pm, Sep 29th, 8:00 pm, Sep 30th, 4:30 pm, Oct 3rd, 8:00 pm, Oct 5th, 4:30 pm

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From JONATHAN BETUEL’s screenplay for the beloved 1980s sci-fi film comes the cosmically entertaining romantic musical fantasy THE LAST STARFIGHTER. It’s Spring 1983 in a Sierra Nevada trailer park. High school senior Alex Rogan’s hardworking, unrewarded life takes an unexpected turn when he breaks a video game record and is spirited away by the game’s inventor, the alien huckster Centauri, to fight for the Star League in a faraway galaxy.  Centauri leaves behind Beta, a body double droid of Alex, to cover Alex’s absence with his mother, brother and beloved girlfriend Maggie while Alex is off fighting the evil Zur and the Ko-dan Armada. Beta’s comic mishaps on Earth with Maggie and the neighbors in the trailer park, and shape-shifting alien assassins in pursuit of Alex on his home turf, alternate with Alex’s heroic starfighter achievements.  Alex must reach inside himself to discover his true potential – the...

Schedule: Sep 28th, 8:00 pm, Sep 29th, 1:00 pm, Oct 3rd, 9:00 pm, Oct 5th, 1:00 pm, Oct 5th, 5:00 pm, Oct 6th, 9:00 pm, Oct 7th, 4:30 pm

at The Theater at St. Clements

  Two people, He and She. A Hotel Room, An Afternoon. No names, No strings, No Commitments. . .  No problem ! Then, Love enters the picture ... things get complicated. Like Love, an intimate new musical with a sensuous Jazz influenced Score.  Sex was only the Beginning!

Schedule: Sep 20th, 8:00 pm, Sep 21st, 1:00 pm, Sep 22nd, 4:30 pm, Sep 23rd, 4:30 pm, Sep 26th, 8:00 pm, Sep 28th, 8:00 pm, Oct 3rd, 4:30 pm

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Charleston, South Carolina. 1822. Ex-slave Denmark Vesey strives to buy the freedom of his enslaved wife and two young children. Their love-obsessed master thwarts him. Charleston police then shut down his independent Black church. Will Denmark secretly escape with his family to the safety of the North, or stay to lead his church members and slaves in an insurrection against their oppressors? A powerful new work with a gospel influenced score. [Logo: Sculpture: “Slave In Revolt” by Karl Broodhagen, Barbados. Photograph: R. Norman Matheny. Used with the kind permission of The National Cultural Foundation, Barbados.]

Schedule: Sep 19th, 8:00 pm, Sep 22nd, 5:00 pm, Sep 26th, 9:00 pm, Sep 27th, 5:00 pm, Sep 29th, 9:00 pm, Sep 30th, 4:30 pm

at The Theater at St. Clements

Nebraska, 1958: the world is closing in on Charlie Starkweather and Caril Fugate, teenage lovers charged with committing eleven murders in the course of a week. Under pressure to confess by dawn, facts blur and loyalties shift, and the question remains: how far will you go for someone you love? Based on the true story that inspired the films Badlands and Natural Born Killers, this world-premiere emo rock musical by OBIE Award-winning playwright Kyle Jarrow (…Children's Scientology Pageant; and Gorilla Man) explores the intersection of love and desire.  For more information, visit www.lovekillsthemusical.com

Schedule: Sep 18th, 8:00 pm, Sep 21st, 1:00 pm, Sep 23rd, 4:30 pm, Sep 26th, 8:00 pm, Sep 28th, 1:00 pm, Sep 29th, 8:00 pm

at The 45th Street Theatre (Mainstage)

Let the battle begin! Shakespeare goes punk as Love’s Labours Lost is transported to the burgeoning rock scene of the 1970s East Village. Two competing punk bands, The [All-Guy] Molotovs and The [All-Girl] Guttersnipes, swear off love in order to stay focused on their music.

Schedule: Sep 26th, 8:00 pm, Sep 27th, 8:00 pm, Sep 30th, 8:00 pm, Oct 1st, 4:30 pm, Oct 6th, 4:30 pm, Oct 6th, 8:00 pm

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Hebrew hottie and Hanukkah hero Judah Maccabee is torn between his father Matisyahu's religious orthodoxy and the alluring modern world around him. He tries out for the Olympics, meets a beautiful Greek "goddess" (no, it ain't Xanadu) and discovers his destiny.  Along the way, there's doo-wop, a boy band, bad guy Antiochus  and the world's first  Valley Girl. Forget the business about the oil lasting for 8 nights-- THIS is the true story of Hanukkah,  sort of.

Schedule: Sep 24th, 8:00 pm, Sep 26th, 8:00 pm, Sep 30th, 1:00 pm, Oct 3rd, 4:30 pm, Oct 6th, 4:30 pm, Oct 6th, 8:00 pm

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“My little Jackie, my oldest, has run off to tour in Vaudeville!” So sings  Mud Donahue, when  her 19-year old tap-dancing whiz of a son sneaks away from home in 1910 for a smalltime New England vaudeville tour, consorting with floozies, flossies and showpeople. What plain-speaking, God-fearing Irish mother wouldn’t be upset?  

Schedule: Oct 2nd, 8:00 pm, Oct 3rd, 1:00 pm, Oct 4th, 4:30 pm, Oct 4th, 8:00 pm, Oct 5th, 1:00 pm, Oct 5th, 8:00 pm, Oct 6th, 4:30 pm, Oct 7th, 1:00 pm

at The 45th Street Theatre (Mainstage)

A Swamp Chorus sings backup to the Zydeco-driven score in this foot-stomping, family-friendly musical soaked in Cajun hot sauce! When the Big Bad Gator spies tasty duck Petite Rouge and her sidekick cat TeJean heading down the bayou, Petite leads him on a wild duck chase through the New Orleans Mardi Gras, all the way to a surprise ending. Saucy and colorful, as you'd expect, from the writer/composer of Junie B. Jones and the Miss Nelson musicals.

A sold-out hit at Imagination Stage, Bethesda, Md, and Childsplay, Tempe, Az!

$1 per ticket will be donated to Musicians' Village/New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity.

Schedule: Sep 25th, 8:00 pm, Sep 26th, 1:00 pm, Sep 29th, 4:30 pm, Oct 3rd, 4:30 pm, Oct 4th, 1:00 pm, Oct 6th, 8:00 pm

at The 45th Street Theatre (Mainstage)

PIPER is set in late 19th century Boston's Scolley Square.  Amid brothels, violent gangs vying for turf, and the insidious presence of a ”strangler,” emerges the story of Jordan, an ex-prostitute, her child, Wilder, afflicted with polio yet with a supernatural abilty to play the penny whistle, and Grimm, a mysterious border who becomes the focus of the search for the serial prostitute killer.

Schedule: Sep 18th, 8:00 pm, Sep 21st, 9:00 pm, Sep 22nd, 1:00 pm, Sep 23rd, 4:30 pm, Sep 27th, 1:00 pm, Sep 27th, 9:00 pm, Sep 29th, 5:00 pm

at The Theater at St. Clements

PLATFORMS unfolds as a young couple is  separated on  a crowded New York subway platform. They find experience and perspective... before they find  each other.

Schedule: Oct 2nd, 8:00 pm, Oct 4th, 9:00 pm, Oct 6th, 1:00 pm

at The Theater at St. Clements

On the road in 1972, a brash young rookie from New York City's mean streets takes on the sport's beloved but aging star in a battle royal for the title of Roller Derby Queen.  Rockin' and rollin' with the ten decidedly colorful gals and guys on their team, a