Live@The Lane
Live! At The Lane is a performing arts series featuring a variety of events, including music, dance, spoken word, comedy, and theater. Taking place in our historic Café Theater, the program is an accessible, culturally relevant celebration that centers joy, offering a broad diversity of performing arts for audiences of all ages.
The ’25-’26 season, “RESURGENCE” highlights the spirit of renewal, resistance, and collective joy through an eclectic range of performances that celebrate community, culture, and creativity.
Live@ The Lane 2025-2026 Season
Autumn Blalock, Performing Arts Manager
Mt. Airy Home Companion: Give Me Liberty
October 4, 7:00 pm
October 5, 2:00 pm
Mt. Airy’s resident performance troupe is BACK at Allens Lane to kick off the season with a comedic drama that’s sure to get you on your feet. Journey with the Companion crew as they reflect on and respond to the 250th anniversary of the United States of America! A jukebox musical performance for the ages, you’ll want to bring a companion of your own to enjoy the ride.
BYO Food and Beverage
Doors open at 6:30pm
Curtains open at 7:00pm
Suitable for ages 5+
The “N” Crowd Comedy Show
October 25, 7:00 pm
Guthrie Ramsey
November 8, 7:00 pm
The Lost Priest
November 22, 7:00 pm
Reader’s Theater of the 2025-2026 season opens with a reflective, poetic, and charged story, perfect for people who are hungry for non-traditional storytelling.
The Lost Priest is a deeply introspective and poetic one-person play written and performed by Gabe Seplow. It follows the contemplative journey of the titled role, Lost Priest, who navigates themes of faith, identity, memory, and cultural inheritance. Rooted in Jewish traditions and rituals, the play delves into the protagonist’s conflicted relationship with their heritage, examining moments of pride, doubt, and discovery. Through fragmented reflections, the Lost Priest grapples with familial history, the weight of antisemitism, and the search for meaning in religious rituals that once felt familiar but now seem distant. The narrative is punctuated by symbolic actions, such as the lighting of a Shabbat candle, the motions of a Bar Mitzvah, and references to historical and religious texts. These elements underscore the tension between tradition and modernity, belonging and estrangement. As the Lost Priest revisits ancestral stories—some joyful, others marked by loss—the play becomes a meditation on the complexities of identity and the universal longing for connection. Ultimately, The Lost Priest invites audiences to witness a raw, vulnerable exploration of self, culminating in a powerful affirmation of resilience and cultural pride amid uncertainty.
Recommended Ages: 13 and up
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $0 – $20
Tickets at the door $0 – $20
Doors open at 6:30pm
Yes! And… Collaborative Arts: Theater for Youth Show!
December 13, 2:00 pm
Laugh, move, and enjoy a theater for youth performance catered to children! A showcase performance by Yes! And… Collaborative Arts, this show will be a great time for families and children of all ages.
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets are Pay What You Decide!
Learn more about Yes! And…Collaborative Arts at https://www.yesandcamp.org
Winter Resurgence Cabaret
December 20, 7:00 pm
Inhabit this season’s theme of RESURGENCE with a night of riveting cabaret-style musical theater. Performed by Philly’s best and brightest, this is a tribute to community, kindness, and camaraderie in the cold season.
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm
New Year’s Drag Brunch
January 11, 11:00 am
THRIVE IN PRIDE at Allens Lane Art Center with the kickstart to the year that we need! Witness the extravagance of some of Philly’s beloved drag performers and come in your own outfit to match the energy! You can’t have an incredible show like this without food, so bring an appetite and buy a plate from our featured caterer!
This event is 21+ and will feature catering, so come ready to buy a plate!
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Little Lives
January 24, 7:00 pm
Enjoy the acoustic musical stylings of Philadelphia musician and Germantown jewel, Miles Orion Butler. Be serenaded, uplifted, and astounded with gorgeous vocals and acoustic guitar.
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm
Our History Poetry Night
February 7, 7:00 pm
In 2026, our nation will be acknowledging a major anniversary: 250 years of being a country. The history of the United States is steeped in stories of both great achievements and great failures’ erasure. Now, possibly more than ever, the voices of our communities need to be front and center if we are to move forward. In partnership with The Colored Girls Museum, listen to poetry and bring your own writing, all responding to the prompt, “What does Our History mean to you?”
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm
Jazzentine 2026
February 14, 7:00 pm
You don’t want to miss our 3rd annual Jazzentine! Featuring a different artist every year, this year we bring a special treat to the stage. The one…the only… Khadijah “Renee”!
Khadijah “Renee” is a Jazz songstress in the vein of the Great Ladies of Jazz. Her resonant tones remind you of the women who paved their way through the male dominated syncopated instrumental ingenious sounds of Be-Bop & Classical Jazz from as early as the 1950′s. If you close your eyes while listening to her, you may hear reminiscent echoes of Sarah, Ella, Billie, Nancy, Dinah and Gloria. Witness her trio with a loved one and sway the night away!
21+ Event
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm
Sis.tem | Gateways to Safehouses
March 14, 7:00 pm
sis.tem | gateways to safehouses is a duet of dance, confronting the public scrutiny that Black women face now and in our not-so-distant past. We are worked until wrung dry, leaving us questioning our worth, privilege, and role in the grand scheme of it all. Join dancers as they expose the weight of societal objectification on the spiritual body. They will journey through modes of African, Contemporary, House, and Black Social Dance to landscape the uneasy terrain. The enlivening of movement and melodic rituals call into question, how can we ignite century-long spells cast upon us as protection in eras of refinement and reformation? What systems can invigorate strength in these times of peril and guide us back to the safehouses our ancestors inhabited? Community and sisterhood have tenderly woven secrets of rhizomatic wisdom, beckoning the facilitation of grounding, resilience, and humility to see us through the lowest to highest tides. Venture depths to unearth the necessary tools to carry on with renewed freedom while the world continues with business as usual.
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm
Readers Theater: Recuerdos Que No Sabias Que Tenias
March 21, 7:00 pm
Recuerdos Que No Sabias Que Tenias, written by Mars Santi, is an exploration of memory + wisdom moved from generation to generation. Encapsulating Boricua culture, queerness, familial joy, reclamation + healing towards liberation. Recuerdos Que No Sabias Que Tenias is a living breathing archive protecting our most cherished possessions – memories, stories, + our spirits.
Through the creative methodologies of dance, music, poetry, and oral storytelling, RQNSQT interrogates themes of intersectional identities, religion vs spirituality, family, memory, and our collective bodies (Human + Earth).
BYO Food and Beverage
Recommended ages 14+
Door opens 6:30pm
Curtains at 7pm
Brandon Moulden
April 11, 7:00 pm
Get excited for the return of last year’s Jazzentine performer, Brandon Moulden! Specializing in a modern flavor of Jazz, he’s back and BIGGER with a larger group, a different time, but the same great music.
Brandon Evan Moulden is a singer-songwriter, song stylist and poet of substance and eclecticism. Rooted in the jazz idiom, soul influence, and pop sounds of old and new, his voice and music captivate with the ability to place both the lyric and the listener in a bed of thought and emotion.
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm
The Piano Lesson
April 24,25,26, May 1,2,3,7,8,9
Directed by Zuhairah McGill
In August Wilson’s haunting, luminous play set in 1930s Pittsburgh, Berniece and her brother Boy Willie clash over the fate of the family piano; she treasures it as a precious connection to their ancestors, and he sees it as the means to a more prosperous future.
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm, and Sundays at 2:00 pm.
Spring Resurgence Cabaret
May 16, 7:00 pm
Inhabit this season’s theme of RESURGENCE! with a night of riveting cabaret-style musical theater. Performed by Philly’s best and brightest, this is a tribute to community, kindness, and camaraderie in the season of renewal.
BYO Food and Beverage.
Tickets online $20
Tickets at the door $25
Doors open at 6:30pm
History
Since its establishment in 1953, Allens Lane Art Center has been a vital cornerstone in the Mount Airy, Germantown, and Greater Philadelphia communities with the mission of Growing Together Through the Arts. Allens Lane typically presents four Mainstage productions each season, continuing a long-standing community theater program that has seen thousands of artists and audience members pass through its doors. We are committed to producing purposeful, challenging, and unique theater experiences including the best of contemporary drama, exciting new works, plays for young audiences, and boldly reimagined classics that reflect the rich diversity of the neighborhoods surrounding Allens Lane Art Center. In addition to our Mainstage season, we offer a Reader’s Theater program to present staged readings of new plays by local writers. The theater at Allens Lane aims to bring people of all ages together through the communal power of the arts and is committed to diverse representation in our productions both with the actors onstage and the artists working behind the scenes.
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Theater Tickets
In-Person Individual Play Ticket Prices:
$20 General Admission
$15 Senior and Student Discount
Tickets for Reader’s Theater and Children’s Theater are Pay-What-You-Wish.
