The Players Club of Swarthmore kicks off its post-pandemic schedule on Friday, August 13, with a comedic take on love and urban angst entitled Detroit, a Pulitzer-prize-nominated play by Lisa D’Amour, directed by George Mulford.
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Annie!
Based on the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, this musical tells the story of a plucky orphan who dreams of finding her parents. Billionaires, cruel orphanage matrons, nefarious con artists, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt feature in this family favorite, along with unforgettable songs like “Tomorrow” and “It’s the Hard Knock Life.”
Take a Quantum Leap to PCS’s New Play
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum cosmology requires that there be many, perhaps an infinite number, of worlds, new ones arising from each quantum interaction. Constellations, a play by Nick Payne opening November 8 at the Players Club of Swarthmore, is an artful riff on this notion, using multiple short scenes to portray divergent outcomes of each event. The result is a wittily complex structure used to tell a very simple story: two people meet, take up housekeeping together, break up, get together again, settle down, face the future. At least, in several of the multiple universes that are all equally possible, they do several of those things.
PCS Opens The Hollow
The Players Club of Swarthmore continues its mainstage season with a new production of Agatha Christie’s whodunit The Hollow, opening tonight (Friday, October 18), and running through November 2 at its playhouse at 614 Fairview Road in Swarthmore.
Junie B. Jones, on Stage at PCS
Barbara Park’s bestselling books form the basis of Junie B. Jones the Musical, which will be performed at the Players Club of Swarthmore from October 5-13.
Players Club of Swarthmore Season Opens with Mamma Mia
For its opening show of the 2019-2020 season, The Players Club of Swarthmore presents Mamma Mia, a feel-good musical comedy woven around many of ABBA’s greatest hits, featuring music and lyrics by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and book by Catherine Johnson. Mamma Mia runs from Friday, September 13, through Saturday, September 28.
PCS Presents Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Schoolhouse Rock, a pop culture phenomenon over the past four decades, comes to the area in its latest incarnation as an all ages musical, to be staged August 10-18 in the Players Club of Swarthmore’s Summer Children’s Series. Based on the Saturday morning cartoon series seen on ABC-TV from the 1970s through the 1990s, Schoolhouse Rock Live! teaches history, grammar, math, and more to a whole new generation through hit songs including “Conjunction Junction,” “Just a Bill,” “Interplanet Janet” or “Three is a Magic Number.”