OPENING FRIDAY -- AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'

Tri-County Performing Arts 
Center, 245 E. High St. presents  “Ain’t Misbehavin’  Feb. 10- through Feb.19. Winner of the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical, the comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem lives on in this rollicking,  swinging, finger-snapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway's best! Performances run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays 3 p.m..  Tickets are $17 for adults, $15 for students and seniors, and $13 for children 12 and under.  Parental guidance is suggested for this show.Tickets may be purchased at http://www.tripac.org/ or at the door the night of the show if available.  As always, there are discounts for groups of 10 or more.  Check the website, or call the theater at 610-970-1199 for more information.

AREA PRODUCTIONS

HERSHEY
Hershey Theatre, 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey (717-534-3405)
“Come Fly Away” February 16 - 19


KUTZTOWN
 Kutztown University, Schaeffer Auditorium, Kutztown (610-683-4092)
Children's Series presents "Charlotte's Web" by Theatreworks USA at 2 p.m. Feb. 12

MALVERN
People’s Light & Theatre presents
 “Fallow” Jan. 11- Feb. 5
"Of Mice and Men" Feb. 15 through March 25
For more information or to purchase group tickets, call 610-647-1900 x134 or email charles@peopleslight.org. People’s Light & Theatre is located at 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, PA 19355.

PHILADELPHIA
Academy of Music, 1420 Locust St., Philadelphia (215-893-1999)
“RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles” through  Feb. 5

Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St., Philadelphia (215-922-1122)
"Clybourne Park" - Jan. 26 through March 18

Curio Theatre Company presents Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic “Slaughterhouse-Five”  Feb, 2-23. Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time! Curio, in it's own special brand of lunacy, presents Billy Pilgrim as he  simultaneously experiences all the phases of his life: birth to death, battlefield to captivity on the alien planet Tralfamadore. Vonnegut's eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority is all here. Tickets : $10-$20 Box Office Phone: (215) 525-1350. Performances are at 4740 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19143 for information go to http://www.curiotheatre.org

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s local debut of the Tony-nominated musical “The Scottsboro Boys”  will be featured at The Suzanne Roberts Theatre at 480 S. Broad St. on the Avenue of the Arts in Center City Philadelphia.(Jan. 20-Feb. 19). From the legendary songwriting team of Kander and Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman), The Scottsboro Boys is a stirring musical that explores the infamous 1930s 'Scottsboro Case' in which a group of African-American men are falsely accused of a terrible crime, ultimately provoking a national outrage that sparked the American Civil Rights movement. Tickets mat be ordered online at the website  http://www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/ or order by phone at the Box Office at 215-985-0420

Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St., Philadelphia (215-735-7356)
“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” through Feb. 4

The Stagercrafters Theater presents “All My Sons” Friday, February 3 through Sunday, February 19 at the theater, 8130 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118. Reservations: 215-247-9913

Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St., Philadelphia (215-413-1318)
  -- Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3 presents David Auburn’s award-winning “Proof.” The show runs through Feb. 5 in the intimate Independence Studio on 3.  For more information about Walnut Street Theatre national tours, visit WalnutStreetTheatre.org.

-- Walnut Street Theatre presents an all-new production of Agatha Christie’s classic thriller "The Mousetrap." This timeless mystery is the world’s longest running play, celebrating its 60th anniversary.  The show runs through March 4 on the WST Mainstage. Written by Agatha Christie, the play is set in England during the winter of 1952. A group of strangers are trapped together at a manor house during a snowstorm. They soon discover one of them is a murderer and suspicion runs wild. For tickets and information, call 215-574-3550 or 800-982-2787. Tickets are also available online 24/7 by visiting www.WalnutStreetTheatre.org or Ticketmaster.

-- Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3 presents the world premiere of “Ethel,” featuring the life stories and memorable songs of Ethel Waters Feb. 21 through March 11. The show was written by and stars Broadway’s Terry Burrell. For tickets and information, call 215-574-3550 or 800-982-2787.

Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., Philadelphia (215-546-7824)
"Body Awareness" runs through Feb. 5, Tickets $10 to $56.

POTTSTOWN 

Tri-County Performing Arts Center, 245 E. High St. presents  “Ain’t Misbehavin’  Feb. 10- through Feb.19.  Performances run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays 3 p.m..  Tickets are $17 for adults, $15 for students and seniors, and $13 for children 12 and under.  Parental guidance is suggested for this show.Tickets may be purchased at http://www.tripac.org/ or at the door the night of the show if available.  As always, there are discounts for groups of 10 or more.  Check the website, or call the theater at 610-970-1199 for more information.

READING
Albright College Center for the Arts
-- “The Waiting Room by Megan Smith – Experience Event 
Friday & Saturday, February 3 & 4, 8 p.m., Wachovia Theatre
Written by the sister of Sheryl Smith, director and class of ’13, this controversial play about women in the waiting room of an abortion clinic has received critical acclaim when it was first-performed at Bryn Mawr College. For mature audiences only. A free talkback follows both performances.
--  Domino Players presents “On the Verge,” by Eric Overmyer February 17 – 19 & 23 – 25 all performances, 8 p.m., except Sunday matinee, 2:30 p.m. at the Wachovia Theatre on campus. Call the box office at (610) 921-7547 for prices/tickets.
Eric Overmyer’s whimsical comedy is full of surprises.
- Friday, Feb. 17, Free Talkback & Reception following performance
- Sunday, Feb. 19, 1–2:30 pm, Theatre Luncheon, $25 per person.

Genesius Theatre will present a Reader’s Theatre production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” at the Reading Public Museum in conjunction with “Theresienstadt’s Children and Their Art.”   Performances will be given on February 23 and 26 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 26 at 2 p.m.  Tickets will be $12 for members of the museum and $15 for non-members.  Reader’s Theatre is staged as a listening experience with actors using scripts.  It’s focus on the words of the play create a very intense performance.

Sovereign Performing Arts Center, 136 N. Sixth St. (1-800-745-3000)
Broadway on Sixth Street Series presents "The Color Purple" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21

Reading Community Players present a staged reading of “My Name Is Ossian Sweet” by Gordon Bennett Feb. 17-19 in celebration of Black History Month.  Historians have become increasingly interested in the saga of Ossian Sweet and his family in Detroit in the 1920's. Sweet, a Negro migrant from Florida seeking a better life in the North, became a medical
doctor, married Gladys Atkinson from a middle-class black family, and ultimately bought a “dream house” in a white neighborhood, despite previous attempts by blacks to integrate neighborhoods in a city rife with members of the KKK. They moved into their home, then over two days and nights a mob gathered, screamed and threw stones, attempting to evict them. The Sweets had secured guns to defend themselves, and in the ensuing pandemonium Ossian's brother Henry fired shots from an upstairs window, killing one white man and wounding another. All were arrested and charged with murder. The bold defense of the Sweets by the renowned defense attorney Clarence Darrow over two trials marks one of the most courageous and pivotal moments in the long struggle of African Americans to secure their civil rights. Indeed, it appears to be the first time in this country that an African-American was
acquitted of murder by an all-white jury.
  Reservations may be made by calling the theatre at 610-374-0777 or through Brown Paper Tickets. A free shuttle service is offered by the theatre from the parking lot at the 13th and Green School (enter at Greenwhich Street) to the theatre and back.