Results tagged “santalanddiaries”

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia's December On Stage listings make note of four productions of A Christmas Carol (one of which, admittedly, I loved), plus productions of A Christmas Story, Christmas City Follies, Comet, the Fifth Reindeer, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, The Holiday Goose - A Musical, Holiday Show at the Swing Club, The Nutcracker, O'Henry Christmas, The Santaland Diaries, Tiny Tim's Christmas, and Winter Musicale 2007. In short, the season is saturated...

This week's quote comes from David Sedaris, the writer of The Santaland Diaries, opening this week. It runs in full: "Seven beers followed by two Scotches and a thimble of marijuana and it's funny how sleep comes all on its own." Now, on with the listings! The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - Melt would flesh solid too too this that, oh! Through December 23. Tickets online. Holiday Show at the Swing Club -...

This week's quote is by Edward Bond and relates to theatre at its very core: “First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.” Now, on with the listings!

Week two of our quote-fest – if you can call it that. This week’s quote comes from the song “Count Your Blessings.” That’s right. We still haven’t started our holiday shopping – so we’re choosing another non-holiday song. Now, on with the listings!

For the rest of the month, we’ll be quoting Irving Berlin, the Jewish-American composer who, oddly enough, composed the music to . This week’s quote comes from the song “Choreography” in that well-loved Christmas classic. We chose it because, even though it’s December, we’re not exactly ready to celebrate the holiday season. Now, on with the listings!

This week, we’re starting something new. You see, we’ve just about run out of generic quotes about theatre to use for headlines, and the few times we’ve used less common quotes, we’ve had a few people contact us in rather a lot of confusion. So, we’re going to begin explaining the more, er, “in-quotes,” right here. If you’ve got any theatre-related quotes you’d like us to use, e-mail the quote, play/song, and context to us (contact info is at the end of each week’s listings), and we’ll be happy to use it sometime. This week, we begin with . The headline quote comes from Edmund’s monologue in 1.2; in it, Edmund has decided to ruin his family so that he can claim his half brother's inheritance. Good times are subsequently had by all. Now, on with the listings!