{"id":40006,"date":"2022-10-07T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=40006"},"modified":"2022-10-07T10:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T14:15:56","slug":"on-stage-mushroom-debuts-at-peoples-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=40006","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: ‘Mushroom’ debuts at People’s Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mushroom<\/p><\/div>\n

Live theater goes into an almost dormant state every summer and then springs back to life in the autumn, winter and spring seasons.<\/p>\n

Well, autumn has arrived \u2013 as Mother Nature has boldly announced with the weather over the last week \u2013 and live theater productions are returning to the entertainment schedule.<\/p>\n

Right now, there are several attractive productions on the schedule \u2013 \u201cMushroom\u201d at People\u2019s Light, \u201cMemphis\u201d at the Candlelight Dinner Theatre, \u201cTootsie\u201d at the Playhouse at Rodney Square and \u201cAnnie\u201d at the Miller Theater.<\/p>\n

Chester County has had several movies about or filmed in Chester County such as \u201cMarley & Me,\u201d \u201cJackass,\u201d \u201cSuburban Sasquatch\u201d and \u201cThe Mighty Macs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, there is a play that was written in Chester County, is about a segment of life in Chester County and is having its world premiere in Chester County. <\/p>\n

That play is \u201cMushroom,\u201d which is set in Kennett Square. The play is running now through October 16 at People\u2019s Light (39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, www.peopleslight.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In Kennett Square, \u201cThe Mushroom Capital of the World,\u201d intersecting lives of immigrant families collide when a workplace injury, an unexpected romance, and the\u00a0looming presence of immigration authorities\u00a0have far-reaching ramifications for the entire community.\u00a0\u201cMushroom\u201d\u00a0is the fourth locally-inspired world premiere developed through People\u2019s Light\u2019s New Play Frontiers<\/a>\u00a0program following\u00a0\u201cProject Dawn<\/a>,\u201d \u201cMud Row<\/a>\u201d and\u00a0\u201cBayard Rustin Inside Ashland<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Eisa Davis is the author of the new socially conscious play.<\/p>\n

\u201cChester County is where it all began,\u201d said Davis, during a phone interview last week from her home in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople\u2019s Light invited me down along with other playwrights to show up and see what stories and narratives called to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story of life in Kennett Square in 2022 called to Davis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an immersion \u2013 an immersion into the area and its people,\u201d said Davis. \u201cI looked for whatever called out loudest. The mushroom industry appealed to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennett Square is known as the Mushroom Capital of the World because mushroom farming in the region produces over<\/p>\n

500 million pounds of mushrooms a year, totaling half of the United States mushroom crop.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people don\u2019t know that most of the mushrooms we eat come from Kennett Square. When I heard about this, I wanted to learn more about it,\u201d said Davis.<\/p>\n

Hispanic races make up almost 30 per cent of the borough\u2019s population. A large percentage of workers on the mushroom farms are Mexican.<\/p>\n

According to People\u2019s Light, \u201c\u2018Mushroom\u2019 is a drama that focuses on the intersecting lives of immigrant families that collide when a workplace injury, an unexpected romance, and the looming presence of immigration authorities have far-reaching ramifications for the entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to explore the invisibility of the people who work on the mushroom farms,\u201d said Davis. \u201cI wanted to look at their vibrance and resilience in addition to their invisibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at the mushroom as a metaphor \u2013 fungal roots feet below the ground. They were invisible under the earth just like the people. And I wanted to look at the necessity of these people. I learned a lot about mushrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, what the play is doing is to try to change that sense of invisibility. These people are working hard with dreams of taking care of their families.<\/p>\n

\u201c2013 was my first visit to People\u2019s Light and Chester County. It started then and it\u2019s been off and on for the last nine years. The first push was from 2013-2015. It started again in 2017-2018. We were going to do it in 2020 and it got pushed back because of COVID.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of COVID, we had a lot of opportunities to workshop. I got to learn a lot. I got to go out and learn from the communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the last nine years, Davis visited the Chester County Food Bank, the Cordivano Brothers Mushroom Farm, and the Coatesville VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cMushroom\u201d\u00a0is performed in both English and Spanish. The play\u2019s dialogue is modeled on the way our communities in Chester County naturally move between languages. Every performance includes English supertitles for the parts of the play in Spanish, and Spanish supertitles for the parts of the play in English. Audience members will be able to read these supertitles from every seat in the theatre.<\/p>\n

Davis wears many hats in addition to writing, including music \u2013 she\u2019s a trained classical pianist — and acting. She performed in the Netflix series \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d and wrote several episodes of the Netflix series \u201cShe\u2019s Gotta Have It.\u201d Davis has written several plays, including \u201cBulrusher,\u201d for which she was a Pulitzer finalist in 2007.<\/p>\n

Davis is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award, a Herb Alpert Awardee in Theatre, and an Obie winner for Sustained Excellence in Performance.<\/p>\n

She wrote and starred in the stage memoir, \u201cAngela’s Mixtape.\u201d A multivolume series of her plays is soon to be published by 53rd State Press. Davis has recorded two albums of her original music,\u00a0\u201cSomething Else\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cTinctures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her local connection includes playing Kate Winslet\u2019s therapist on the show, \u201cMare of Easttown.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were filming \u2018Mare of Easttown,\u2019 I was already quite familiar with this area while because I\u2019ve been working on this play,\u201d said Davis.<\/p>\n

\u201cMushroom\u201d is running now through October 16 at People\u2019s Light. Ticket prices are $47 — $42 for youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cTootsie,\u201d the hilarious Tony Award-winning musical, is visiting The Playhouse on Rodney Square (1007 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware, www.BroadwayInWilmington.org<\/a>) for a limited performance engagement now through October 9.<\/p>\n

\"\"Call it \u201cmusical comedy heaven\u201d (Rolling Stone). Call it \u201cthe most uproarious new musical in years!\u201d (The Hollywood Reporter). Call it \u201cTootsie.\u201d<\/p>\n

This laugh-out-loud love letter to the theater tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Featuring a hilarious Tony\u00ae-winning book by Robert Horn and an outrageously clever score by 2018 Tony-winner David Yazbek (\u201cThe Band\u2019s Visit,\u201d \u201cDirty Rotten Scoundrels\u201d), this New York Times Critic\u2019s Pick is \u201ca joyful delight\u201d (The Washington Post) that\u2019s \u201cso packed with punchlines, it should be called a jokebox musical!\u201d (Bloomberg).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn these turbulent times, when the world seems out of balance, we need a place to let the good times roll,\u201d raves Rolling Stone. \u201c\u2018Tootsie\u2019 is it!\u201d<\/p>\n

The musical is based on the\u00a01982 American comedy film of the same name\u00a0written by\u00a0Larry Gelbart,\u00a0Barry Levinson,\u00a0Elaine May and\u00a0Murray Schisgal\u00a0from the story by Gelbart and\u00a0Don McGuire.<\/p>\n

\u201cTootsie\u201d made its world premiere try-out at the\u00a0Cadillac Palace Theatre\u00a0in\u00a0Chicago\u00a0in September 2018. Like the film, the musical tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman in order to land a job. The original movie revolved around a daytime\u00a0soap opera, while the show involves a Broadway musical.<\/p>\n

The creative team for\u00a0\u201cTootsie\u201d\u00a0includes director\u00a0Dave Solomon\u00a0(Broadway associate director), Broadway choreography by\u00a0Denis Jones, associate choreographer\u00a0Chip Abbott.<\/p>\n

The design team for\u00a0\u201cTootsie\u201d\u00a0includes original scenic designer\u00a0David Rockwell, tour scenic designer\u00a0Christine Peters, costume designer\u00a0William Ivey Long, associate costume designer\u00a0Christopher Vergara, lighting designer\u00a0Donald Holder, associate lighting designers\u00a0Vivien Leone\u00a0&\u00a0Coby Chasman-Beck\u00a0and assistant lighting designer\u00a0Colleen Doherty, sound designer\u00a0Brian Ronan, associate sound designer\u00a0Cody Spencer,\u00a0hair and wig design by\u00a0Paul Huntley, assistant hair and wig designer\u00a0Loryn Pretorius. make-up design by\u00a0Angelina Avallone.<\/p>\n

Music Supervision is handled by Andrea Grody and Dean Sharenow with vocal and incidental arrangements by\u00a0Andrea Grody, dance arrangements by\u00a0David Chase, orchestrations by\u00a0Simon Hale, and music coordination by\u00a0Talitha Fehr.<\/p>\n

\u201cTootsie\u201d is based on the story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart and the Columbia Pictures Motion Picture produced by Punch Productions and starring Dustin Hoffman.<\/p>\n

Video link for \u201cTootsie\u201d — https:\/\/youtu.be\/EHCYFZNmYLQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTootsie\u201d is running now through October 9 at the Playhouse on Rodney Square. Show times are Friday and Saturday evening at 8 p.m. and Friday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Ticket prices start at $40.<\/p>\n

\"\"The\u00a0Candlelight\u00a0Theatre (2208 Millers Road, Arden, Delaware,\u00a0www.candlelighttheatredelaware.org<\/a>) is in the middle of its fifth production run of 2022. The lively musical \u201cMemphis\u201d is running now through October 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cMemphis,\u201d which was inspired by actual events, is about a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black\u00a0club\u00a0singer who is ready for her big break.<\/p>\n

The play looks at their incredible journey to the ends of the airwaves and is filled with laughter, soaring emotion, and roof-raising rock-and-roll.<\/p>\n

Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical and two 2015 Olivier Awards,\u00a0Memphis\u00a0features a Tony-winning book by Joe DiPietro and a Tony-winning original score with music by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan.<\/p>\n

\u201cMemphis\u201d takes the audience back to an era that really wasn\u2019t that long ago — 60 years — but now seems like light years away.<\/p>\n

It has only been a few decades since popular music depended on AM radio and not MTV or the internet. In the 1950s, disc jockeys on AM radio determined what songs would be hits (often through the help of payola\u2026but that\u2019s another story). And AM radio was definitely segregated.<\/p>\n

The musical \u201cMemphis\u201d is set in that era. The show, which won four Tony Awards (including 2010\u2019s Best Musical), is loosely based on the story of\u00a0Dewey Phillips, a Memphis disc jockey who was one of the first white DJs to play black music on AM radio back in the mid-1950s.<\/p>\n

In the show, Huey Calhoun is the deejay who breaks the color line by playing back songs on a white radio station. The kids love the music and the advertisers like the increased business. But there is also a major backlash from the racist element which was so prevalent in the South 50-60 years ago.<\/p>\n

The key characters in the story are Calhoun, the white disc jockey, and his girlfriend\u00a0Felicia\u00a0Farrell, an African American singer.<\/p>\n

This show is really popular for a lot of reasons. The writing is funny, the choreography is uplifting, and the music is great. People sometimes expect the music to include Elvis and other Memphis singers from that era but all of the music in the show is original. Most of all, audiences love this show because it is a great story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMemphis\u201d is also a great history lesson. It\u2019s set in the 1950s on Beale Street in Memphis. It shows the difficulty of trying to be in an inter-racial relationship during that era — an era when African American men in the South were lynched for showing interest in white women.<\/p>\n

It also deals with the duality of music — the whole problem of getting \u201crace music\u201d — that\u2019s what they called it then — played on white radio stations and being heard in the middle of the radio dial. Being heard in the middle of the dial actually was very important in those days.<\/p>\n

With AM radio, the high-powered (50,000 watt) clear channel stations and the major regional stations were located in the middle of AM\u2019s spectrum, which went from 530 khz to 1640 khz (e.g. KYW at 1060 khz or WCAU at 1210 khz). At the far end of the dial were the small, low-powered stations (250-500 watt) with weak signals and very limited coverage areas. \u201cRace music\u2019 was pretty much restricted to these stations.<\/p>\n

The production at the Candlelight Dinner Theatre is directed and choreographed by Devon Sinclair with Hallie Berger as co-choreographer. The vocal director is Garrick Vaughan.<\/p>\n

\u201cMemphis\u201d is running now October 30 at the Candlelight Dinner Theatre.<\/p>\n

Tickets, which include dinner and parking, are $65.50 for adults and $33 for children (ages 4-12).<\/p>\n

\"\"

Annie<\/p><\/div>\n

If you want to catch a local performance of the national tour of \u201cAnnie\u201d, you have to seize the day. If you wait for tomorrow, you just might be too late. The sun might come out tomorrow, but tickets may be sold out.<\/p>\n

The show opens October 11 for a short six-day run through October 16 at the Kimmel Cultural Campus\u2019 Miller Theater (Broad and Locust streets, Philadelphia, www.kimmelculturalcampus.org<\/a>). This production is part of the 2022-23 Broadway Series and the Kimmel\u2019s Family Discovery Series.<\/p>\n

According to director Jenn Thompson, who at the age of 10 stepped into the role of \u201cPepper\u201d in the Original Broadway production, \u201cThis show, with its iconic title character, continues to delight generations of theatre-lovers old and new by joyfully singing directly into the face of great adversity with perseverance, guts and guile.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor decades,\u00a0\u2018Annie\u2019\u00a0has continued to shine brightly, not only as an appeal to our better angels, but also as an example of the thrill of hope, hard-won: promising a better \u2018Tomorrow\u2019 not only for\u00a0Annie\u00a0herself, but for all who need her message now more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

By permission of Tribune Content Agency, LLC,\u00a0\u201cAnnie\u201d\u00a0is based on Harold Gray’s popular comic strip \u201cLittle Orphan\u00a0Annie\u201d, which premiered in the 1920s in the\u00a0New York Daily News\u00a0and became one of the most widely read strips in the 30s and 40s.<\/p>\n

The original production of\u00a0Annie\u00a0had its world premiere on Aug 10, 1976, at the Goodspeed Opera House in Haddam, Connecticut, and opened on Broadway on April 21, 1977, at the Alvin Theatre (Neil Simon Theatre).\u00a0 The production, featured Andrea McArdle as Annie, went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Cast Show Album, and seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book (Thomas Meehan) and Best Score (Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin).\u00a0It closed on Broadway after playing 2,377 performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnnie\u201d was revived on Broadway in 1997 and again in 2014. It has been made into a film three times (1982, 1999, 2014) and was most recently featured as a live television production on NBC. The show remains one of the biggest Broadway musical hits ever. It has been performed in 28 languages and has been running somewhere around the world for 45 years.<\/p>\n

The beloved score for \u201cAnnie\u201d includes \u201cMaybe,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the Hard Knock Life,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,\u201d \u201cEasy Street,\u201d \u201cI Don\u2019t Need Anything But You,\u201d and the eternal anthem of optimism, \u201cTomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show has gone on numerous national tours and featured notable cast members such as child star Amanda Balon as Annie and television\/movie\/stage\/rock band veteran Mackenzie Phillips as Lily St. Regis.<\/p>\n

In the title role of\u00a0Annie in the production coming to Philly\u00a0is Ellie Pulsifer, a 12-year-old actress from South Florida who is making her tour debut. Christopher Swan will star as Oliver Warbucks. In the role of Miss Hannigan is Stefanie Londino.<\/p>\n

Also starring in the tour are Julia Nicole Hunter as Grace, Nick Bernardi as Rooster, Krista Curry as Lily, and Mark Woodard as FDR. Addison, a stray mutt rescued by Tony Award\u00ae Honoree William Berloni\u00a0(Annie,\u00a0A Christmas Story,\u00a0Legally Blonde)\u00a0through the Humane Society in 2017, stars as Sandy.<\/p>\n

The structure of this show is different than many other shows. The main character has the arc and everyone around Annie transforms. It was the Great Depression. Everyone was suffering and here was this little girl with an indomitable spirit. The show is funny but it\u2019s also about truth and love.<\/p>\n

Truth, love, hope, happiness and great tunes \u2013 what more could you ask for in a Broadway show?<\/p>\n

Video link for \u201cAnnie\u201d — https:\/\/youtu.be\/j93KJmxtVpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at the Miller Theater will run through October 16 \u2013 Tuesday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 and 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Ticket prices start at $40.<\/p>\n

Jamey\u2019s House of Music (32 South Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, 215-477-9985,www.jameyshouseofmusic.com<\/a>) always presents great folk, jazz and blues music every Thursday through Sunday.<\/p>\n

The \u201cThursday Night Jazz Jam\u201d and the \u201cSunday Blues Brunch & Jam\u201d are regular features on Jamey\u2019s calendar while Friday and Saturday night shows feature national and regional acts.<\/p>\n

The headline shows on the weekend nights always draw appreciative crowds. The show this Friday night featuring the Blues Project has an audience that is more than appreciative. It\u2019s a sold-out show. Fortunately, some standing room tickets are still available.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, it seems like there is at least one tribute band for every 60s and 70s band with recognition.<\/p>\n

The Blues Project were one of the best bands from New York\u2019s Greenwich Village in the mid-60s — a band featuring Danny Kalb, Steve Katz, Andy Kulberg, Al Kooper and Roy Blumenfeld.<\/p>\n

The band dissolved in the late 60s with Katz and Kooper moving on to form another great band \u2013 Blood, Sweat & Tears.<\/p>\n

More than a half-century has gone by but there have been no Blues Project tribute bands. Actually, there is no need because the Blues Project are still performing on stage.<\/p>\n

The current line-up features two of the band\u2019s founding members \u2013 Steve Katz on guitar and Roy Blumenfeld on drums. The new members are Scott Petito on bass, Chris Morrison on guitar and Kenny Clark on keyboards.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s down to Roy and me,\u201d said Katz, during a phone interview from his home in Connecticut. \u201cFour of the five are still alive while Andy passed away 20 years ago. Al and Danny are unable to play because of health issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe first got together in 1965. Even since the members went separate ways back in the 60s, we\u2019ve always had reunions. We\u2019ve had reunions since 1980.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the fall of 1965, The Blues Project played alongside the likes of Big Joe Williams, Son House, Bukka White, Skip James, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Otis Spann, to name a few. It was these legendary sold-out performances at the famed Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village that eventually led to the release of their phenomenal debut album,\u00a0\u201cLive at the Cafe Au Go Go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started out at the Night Owl Caf\u00e9 and then we moved to the Caf\u00e9 Au Go Go,\u201d said Katz. \u201cThere were so many great shows at the Cafe Au Go Go \u2013 so many great musicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played there a lot. For a long time, we were like the house band. Caf\u00e9 Au Go Go was the first gig that started to break us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band began\u00a0recording\u00a0its first album live at\u00a0the\u00a0Cafe Au Go Go\u00a0in late November 1965 and then the album was finished with another week of recordings in January 1966.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn our first album, our lead singer Tommy Flanders left the band after a few songs,\u201d said Katz. \u201cAfter that, the vocals were done by me, Al and Danny.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were a fabulous live band. Our recordings never showed what we could do. They never presented the band the right way. Our label Verve\/Folkways didn\u2019t care. They were awful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Straight out of New York, the Blues Project soon toured all over North America. Back then, California, was the place to be, with San Francisco and Los Angeles as the two epicenters of the new age of rock and roll. The five New Yorkers played there and conquered the West.<\/p>\n

In San Francisco, the birthplace of the hippie counterculture movement and of the psychedelic rock, they achieved the admiration of their local peers. The not-yet famous Grace Slick, for example, dreamed to be the band\u2019s new female singer after sharing the bill with them at the Avalon Ballroom when she was still a member of the Great Society.<\/p>\n

Ed Denson, manager of Country Joe and the Fish, who became an instant fan after seeing them at the Matrix, said, \u201cTheir stage presence and their performance have an authority which comes from the secure knowledge that they are one of the best groups going. For the three weeks that they were here they were indisputably the best band in the city.\u201d
\nKalb, Katz, Blumenfeld, Kulberg and Kooper were all skillful musicians who mastered their instruments. They were so talented and versatile that they set a high standard for other performers of their generation.<\/p>\n

Returning to New York, the band recorded their second album\u00a0\u201cProjections\u201d\u00a0in the fall of 1966 \u2013 a diverse set of songs that spanned genres, including blues, rock, R&B, psychedelia, jazz, folk-rock. Soon after\u00a0\u201cProjections\u201d\u00a0was completed, the band began to fall apart. Kooper left the band in the spring of 1967\u00a0and the band completed a third album,\u00a0\u201cLive At Town Hall,\u201d\u00a0without him.<\/p>\n

In 1967, at the peak of their success and after the release of their third album,\u00a0\u201cLive at Town Hall,\u201d\u00a0the band\u00a0appeared at one of their last gigs \u2014 the legendary Monterey International Pop Festival. Videos from their set at Monterey showed audience members listening with reverence \u2013 mesmerized by what they were hearing from the New York quintet\u2026. especially the Kooper-penned track, \u201cFlute Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of what we\u2019re playing in our shows now are songs from \u2018Projections\u2019 and \u2018Live at Caf\u00e9 Au Go Go,\u2019\u201d said Katz. \u201cEven though we don\u2019t have a flute player, we still play \u2018Flute Thing.\u2019 Our organist plays the flute parts on an ocarina-type instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katz, who in 2015 released his memoir book, \u201cBlood, Sweat, and My Rock \u2018n Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?,\u201d is no stranger to Jamey\u2019s House of Music. He has performed several solo gigs at the comfortable venue in Delaware County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played Jamey\u2019s solo before,\u201d said Katz. \u201cIt\u2019s a really great room with good sound. And Jamey is great to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for the Blues Project \u2014\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/I8Zp-vmAuEg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The shows at Jamey\u2019s on Friday and Saturday will start at 8 p.m. Saturday\u2019s concert will feature Durham County Poets and Sunday\u2019s \u201cBlues Jam\u201d will feature Roger Girke.<\/p>\n

Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center (226 North High Street, West Chester, www.uptownwestchester.org<\/a>) is presenting The Lords of 52nd Street on October 7 and Taylor-Simon-King on October 8.<\/p>\n

Kennett Flash (102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, 484-732-8295,\u00a0http:\/\/www.kennettflash.org<\/a>) is hosting Lauren Calve on October 8 and District 97 with special guest Stratospheerius on October 12.<\/p>\n

The Colonial Theater (227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, thecolonialtheatre.com\/events<\/a>) is hosting Jeff Allen: 2.0 Tour on October 7.<\/p>\n

The Sound Bank (119 South Main Street, Phoenixville, www.soundbankphx.com<\/a>) will have The Ty Faherty Band and Dear Zoe on October 7 and Hypnotic Eye on October 8.<\/p>\n

Phantom Power (121 West Frederick Street, Millersville, www.phantompower.net<\/a>) will have Creatures of Content & David Koster Band on October 7, Kevin Gannon on October 9 and Red Not Chili Peppers and Nimrod on October 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Live theater goes into an almost dormant state every summer and then springs back to life in the autumn, winter and spring seasons. Well, autumn has arrived \u2013 as Mother Nature has boldly announced with the weather over the last week \u2013 and live theater productions are returning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4965,6518,13865,228,13866],"class_list":["post-40006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annie","tag-featured","tag-memphis","tag-mushroom","tag-tootsie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40007,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40006\/revisions\/40007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}