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Living together in the community through the arts

Since its founding in 1953, Allens Lane Art Center has been a cornerstone of the Mt. Airy community by bringing the residents together to participate in and enjoy the arts.  Whether its art classes for children or adults, amazing art exhibitions or cutting edge plays on the mainstage, there is something for everyone at Allens Lane.

 
601 West Allens Lane ~ Philadelphia, PA 19119 ~ p: 215.248.0546 f: 215.248.0559

2010 - 2011 THEATER SEASON SCHEDULE

Season Subscriptions are available for just $75

Single tickets are $18 with reservations or $20 at the door.

Allens Lane Art Center would like to thank all of our sponsors and advertisers.

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ALL IN THE TIMING
October 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16
by David Ives
Directed by Jessica Bender

All in the Timing: six one act plays with a humorous view on relationships, good timing, bad timing, and the search for the ultimate human connection. Join us for Sure Thing, The Universal Language, The Philadelphia, Foreplay or the Art of the Fugue, Seven Menus, and English Made Simple.

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IN THE BLOOD
November 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28  – December 3, 4

by Suzan Lori-Parks
Directed by Jerrell Henderson

In The Blood is a captivating story revolving around Hester, La Negrita. A mother of five who attempts to get a foot-hold in a world determined to exploit her and than damming her for its exploitation. This contemporary version of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, is an energetic, riveting, sexy and ultimately tragic tale you will not want to miss.

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Charles Dickens’s HARD TIMES
January 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 – February 5, 6
adapted by Stephen Jeffreys
Directed by Travis A. Whitaker

"Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life."

A whirlwind adaptation, featuring four actors portraying nearly two dozen characters of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times: quintessential Dickens, a celebration of sheer theatrical story-telling, full of humanity and humor, with a rich gallery of idiosyncratic characters. Set at a time of supposed social progress, moving from Thomas Gradgrind's model schoolroom where the Philosophy of Fact leaves no room for fancy or imagination, past the fire that bursts out at night from the smoking chimneys of Josiah Bounderby's Coketown factories, to the exuberance and fellow-feeling of Mr Sleary's travelling circus-troupe, Hard Times explores the impoverishment of the human life that results from the denial of the most fundamental qualities of the human heart.

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**Philadelphia Premiere**
WTC VIEW  

March 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26
by Brian Sloan
Directed by T. Patrick Ryan

Eric, a 33 year old gay man, places an advertisement in New York’s Village Voice newspaper advertising an available bedroom in his apartment in So Ho.  The selling point of the room is that it boasts a view of The World Trade Center.  The ad appears on September 10, 2001. What transpires is not only how Eric, but his friend Josie, who lives on the Upper East side of Manhattan handle what is happening at this time, but the men who actually have answered the ad all deal with the worst days in US history.

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STRING OF PEARLS
May 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21

by Michele Lowe
Directed by Maurizio Giammarco

On the eve of her granddaughter Amy's wedding, Beth asks to see the pearls she gave Amy's mother long ago. When Amy cannot produce them Beth determines to find the pearls. She takes us back to the time when she received them and then gave them to her daughter, who passed them on to her dearest friend Ela who lost them one Sunday morning. Spanning 35 years, the pearls touch the lives of mothers and daughters, sisters and friends, even husbands and wives as they weave a deeply affecting story of love and loss.

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