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. . .and we're back! Did you miss us? Were you itching to know just what shows were up and running in Philly? Well, here you go. Our title quote comes from the , which opens next Tuesday at the Media Theater.

This week's quote comes from the Othello scene in The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr, when we discover one of the actors was thinking of the other kind of moor. Now, on with the listings!

Okay, so neither Holiday Inn nor White Christmas was a stage play, but they're both about live performance, and this song appears in both. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from our favorite song in A Chorus Line. Probably because it's about T&A. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote is from our favorite song from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which happens to be playing at two theatres in the area. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from David Mamet, writer of Oleanna, which opens next week at the Plays and Players Theatre. He continues from there: "It's the easiest thing to remember." Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from the song "Façade" in the musical Jekyll and Hyde, now playing at the Iron Age Theatre. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote was spoken by Mad Margaret in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, opening next week at the Rose Valley Chorus & Orchestra. The quote concludes: "That's mad enough, I think!" Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote, in honor of Nice People Theatre Company's upcoming production, is actually a psalm. Psalm 8.2, to be exact. It reads: "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings has thou ordained strength because of thine enemies." Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from the inimitable Jack Handy, who wrote: "One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with wooden stakes." Now, on with the listings!

If you didn't get this week's quote, watch the embedded video before you make yourself look silly. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady. During it, Professor Henry Higgins is lamenting Eliza Doolittle's departure while at the same time trying to convince himself he's better off without her. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from William Blake, who lamented:

This week's quote comes from one of our favorite songs from Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, now open at the Arden Club Theatre. Now, on with the listings!

With the conclusion of Fringe now only ten days away, several local theatre companies are getting ready for their 2008-2009 seasons, and we'll have still more for you next week. Now, on with the listings!

Philly's theatre community is still more-or-less Fringe-tastic these days. But there are a few new non-Fringe developments to report. Now, on with the listings!

This is that time of year when the local theatre community devotes itself more or less fully to the Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festivals, so our listings may be pretty short for the next couple of weeks. But no fear! The end of the Festival means the beginning of the Philadelphia theatre season, so we'll have plenty a listing for you in due time.

Nothing new opening this week, so we went with an old fall-back: The Bard. In V.ii of King Richard II, Shakespeare wrote:

It's pretty hard to explain this week's quote if you haven't seen Spamalot. So go check it out when it hits town, and laugh along with us. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from the song "Broadway Baby," which originally appeared in Sondheim's Follies, and which inspired the name for the new revue opening at Bristol Riverside Theatre. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from Sarah Bernhardt, who said: "For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture." Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, who said: “Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.” Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from an ABBA song. And because ABBA songs make up the score to Mamma Mia, which opens next week on the Avenue of the Arts, we figured it was appropriate here. Now, on with the listings!

This week's headline was taken from a quote by Jim Dale, perhaps best known as the voice of the Harry Potter books here in the States. The entire statement reads: "We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved." Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from Jerome Savary, who said: "Theatre is not and should not be a literary form of expression. A theatrical celebration can take place anywhere: out of doors, in a garage, in a stable. The problem with avant-garde theatre today is that it is absolutely intellectual. You have to be cerebrally inclined to understand what is going on." Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, which is not playing anywhere near Philadelphia (that we know of). But it does describe the lives of several theatre professionals in the area as the season comes to a close. Enjoy your time down the shore, guys. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from . The line is delivered in song as Audrey II is trying to convince Seymour to feed him—to feed him people. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from George Santanya, who said: "The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form." Now, on with the listings!

Go with us here for a minute: The opening of the show Almost, Maine got us thinking about Maine lobsters. Which made us hungry. And distracted us from anything else. Ergo this week's title and picture. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote comes from Antonin Artaud, who wrote in The Theatre and Its Double: "It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us." Now, on with the listings!