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On Sept. 18 a new 100-seat music, comedy and private event venue, The Royal Glenside, opened at 1 South Easton Rd. in Glenside. The first performance on Sept. 18 featured eight local bands. Nov. 18 will be the first Comedy Night. Then local stand-up comics or acoustic music every Thursday night.
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by Len Lear
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11/11/21
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(2011 / 107 minutes) British fisheries expert Ewan McGregor is asked to realize a sheik's unlikely vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert. He finds an unusual ally in the British Prime Minister's press secretary, Kristin Scott Thomas.
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11/10/21
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(1946 / 100 minutes) An unfaithful serviceman's wife is murdered as war-traumatized veterans haunt the shadowy streets of California in this archetypal film noir. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix star in an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler, directed by George Marshall.
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11/3/21
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(1974 / 104 minutes) A subway car is taken hostage and held for ransom in this intense and thrilling drama from director Joseph Sargent. Starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam.
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10/27/21
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“Hamilton” has returned. It’s the first offering of the 2021-2022 Kimmel Cultural Campus’ Broadway Philadelphia Season.
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by Clark Groome
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10/26/21
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(1971 / 93 minutes) Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin butt heads with the inexplicable trends of the 1960s as they search for their runaway hippie daughter in this hilarious, off-beat, counter-culture comedy time capsule. Director Miloš Forman's first English-language movie, co-written by playwright John Guare.
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10/20/21
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(1951 / 103 minutes) Beloved character actor Thelma Ritter gets a rare star turn in George Cukor's comedic jewel. She's a down-on-her luck notary turned matchmaker of lonely-hearts and losers. Zany interactions with model Jeanne Crain ensue.
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10/13/21
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John Patrick Shanley wrote “Rogues' Gallery” last year in response to the lockdown of the performing arts world during the pandemic, and is donating the proceeds of all performance royalties to the Actors' Fund. It's at Stagecrafters through October 10. In person, not virtual.
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by Rita Charleston
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10/8/21
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Stagecrafters turned the lights back on as they opened their Fall season with "Rogues' Gallery" by John Patrick Shanley. Director Mariangela Saavedra introduces a lot of first-timers who benefit from Shanley's shorter, more punchy stories and bring them to life.
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by Hugh Hunter
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10/6/21
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(1979). Peter Sellers is uproarious in his final film performance—director Hal Ashby's dry, political comedy about a simple-minded gardener who only understands life from what he sees on television yet becomes a media guru. Co-stars Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden and Melvyn Douglas.
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10/6/21
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(1933 / 67 minutes) Joan Blondell fights Depression-era harassment, government indifference, and poverty by turning to crime, romancing hood Chester Morris, and climbing the underworld ladder to Boss status.
OCTOBER 5, 7:30 PM, Woodmere Art Museum, $5 suggested donation
9201 Germantown Avenue. Presented by the Chestnut Hill Film Group
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10/1/21
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The magic of movies returns to the hill this September, with Woodmere Art Museum once again opening up their gallery to screen classic films with the 49th season of Tuesday Nights At The Movies. September 28: "Fury," with Spencer Tracy.
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by Zoe Gray
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9/24/21
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Local writers Thom Nickels and Sabina Clarke have collaborated on “Rendezvous in Bangkok … Who Killed Thomas Merton?,” making its world premiere at the Commodore John Barry Club in Mt. Airy on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2 p.m.
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by Sabina Clarke
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9/24/21
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Starting Sept. 24 with a five-show season featuring a Philadelphia premiere by John Patrick Shanley and a play by award-winning author, Dominique Morisseau.
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by Barbara D. Mills
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9/24/21
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Nick Gillette’s “Yurodivy” will be performed September 23, 24 and 25.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/21
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After 17 months of no live theater, and thousands of show people out of work, theater is gradually beginning to return to productions that people can attend in person rather than online.
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by Clark Groome
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9/17/21
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“The Secretaries,” written by “The Five Lesbian Brothers” and directed by Josh Hitchens, is part of the 2021 Philly Fringe Festival and is the first production of the year from Allens Lane Theater.
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by Rita Charleston
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9/16/21
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The Sculpture Gallery is ready to exhibit in the sanctuary of the Circus Campus in Mt. Airy. Meet with the curator: your benevolent, charismatic guide.
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9/15/21
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![Mt. Airy's Nick Jonczak is seen here with actress Ava Knox in an Impossible Theater Company production of “[missed connections]” at The Fridge in Washington, D.C. , 2012.](https://beta.creativecirclecdn.com/chestnuthilllocal/medium/20210907-185821-Nick.jpg)
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With 28 mainstage shows, nightly cabarets, pop-up events, workshops, artist talkbacks and more, Cannonball will offer something for every age.
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by Len Lear
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9/8/21
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Summer closed last weekend at Vernon Park with heavy rains, and appropriately a play that features a shipwreck in a storm.
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by Walt Maguire
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9/2/21
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