Announcing: Our Spotlight Series! Coming April 14-15
MusiCoLab presents “A Closer Look” at three new musicals during Philly Theater Week!
New musicals by three Philadelphia-area creative teams will be in the spotlight on April 14 at 3 pm and April 15 at 7 pm, when MusiCoLab presents A Closer Look at the Louis Bluver Theater at the Drake, 302 S. Hicks St., just off Spruce near 15th in Center City Philadelphia. Guests are invited to be part of the exploration of these new works and share in the excitement of being part of the journey of a new musical.
MusiCoLab is a non-profit organization that supports musical theater and artists who write musicals in the greater Philadelphia area. Charlie Gilbert, the Executive Director of MusiCoLab, is looking forward to presenting these works by these outstanding writers from the Philadelphia area. He said, “I never cease to be amazed by the great talent right here in my hometown. Our last two showcases had full houses. We hope that Philadelphia audiences will continue to support local talent and exceptional new work.”
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Take "A Closer Look" at these three musicals...
Far From The Tree
Finding Madame Curie
Finding Madame Curie
Based on Andrew Solomon’s award-winning non-fiction book, this musical by Rob Maggio, Kristin Maloney and Justin Warner just won the 2024 Richard Rodgers Studio Production award. Far From The Tree weaves several stories of parents raising profoundly different children with Solomon's own atypical journey toward parenthood.
Finding Madame Curie
Finding Madame Curie
Finding Madame Curie
A musical by David Kurkowski and Melissa Bell about the scientist everybody knows and the woman nobody knows, Marie Curie – the scientist who discovers radium and wins two Nobel Prizes, and the woman who dares to pursue her dream in a man’s world. This musical won the Jackie White Memorial National Playwriting Contest in 2020.
Red & Black
Finding Madame Curie
Red & Black
A contemporary musical by Sheridan Merrick, Nick Hatcher and Dave Thomas that dramatizes issues facing young people in America through the story of Julian, a Black boy whose mother was murdered by the police. Red & Black was featured in the 2021 Polyphone Festival and Theatre on the Verge’s Festival of New Musicals in March 2024.
The MusiCoLab Spotlight Series presentation A Closer Look is part of Curtain Up Philly!, a two-month celebration of new musicals in Philadelphia presented in partnership with three other Philly theater companies. The first event of Curtain Up Philly was the sold-out, critically acclaimed premiere of The Angry Grammarian by Jeffrey Barg and David Lee White, produced by Pier Players Theatre Company at Theatre Exile in South Philly earlier this month. Other events include Theatre on the Verge’s New Musicals Festival at the Abington Arts Center and the Polyphone Festival at the University of the Arts. More than 20 new musicals, many of them by local creators, will be seen on Philadelphia stages this spring, a testament to the flourishing local scene in the city.
MusiCoLab is proud to part of Philly Theatre Week, and a limited number of pay-what-you-can tickets for our Spotlight Series presentation of A Closer Look are available on the Philly Theatre Week site.