Adrian co-writes and arranges new songs for a solo musical at the United Solo Festival: DIVA.

Glee meets Dexter. La Cage Aux Folles meets Richard III. All About Eve meets The Silence of the Lambs. Desmond Channing, a dethroned high school drama queen, tries to make sense of his impending execution by reenacting the events leading up to his murder of archenemy Evan Harris in an impromptu prison cabaret performance.

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY SEAN PATRICK MONAHAN

OCTOBER 7 – 31, 2013
THEATRE ROW

*WINNER OF 2 UNITED SOLO AWARDS*

BEST MUSICAL & AUDIENCE FAVORITE

CREATIVE TEAM

DIRECTOR JAMES PRESSON
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERSOFIA MONTGOMERY, HEATHER PUCHALSKI
CHOREOGRAPHY JENNIFER DELAC
MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS ADRIAN BRIDGES
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY CORY ASINOFSKY
SCENIC DESIGN DANIEL GEGGATT
COSTUME DESIGN SARA DONOVAN
LIGHT DESIGN GARY SLOOTSKIY
SOUND DESIGN EMILY AUCIELLO
ASST. LIGHT DESIGN ALIX MANNIX
PHOTOGRAPHY REBECCA ZOLTOWSKI
GENERAL MANAGER NORA MCNALLY

Adrian creates original music and sound for Kaleid Theatre's newest production, Glow, at the Philly Fringe Festival.

We desperately check for text messages, emails, and Facebook updates, but what are we longing for? When we reach for our devices, we hope to find something beyond ourselves. How do we write ourselves onto the world? How does the world write itself back onto us?

Glow explores the deep human need for validation that is exposed by our compulsion to use, check, and constantly monitor the media in our lives. On our screens, validation becomes the foundation of identity, one we try to solidify in a fury of words. But in this world of gadgets and social media sites, the words are fragile and easy to undermine, manipulate, and efface. When do we successfully write our identities? What happens when we fail and the words fly back at us?

Glow is about all of us. We live in a time of constant flux, with new media outlets appearing every day. We find new ways to make our increasingly complicated phones beep at us, and then wonder if we control the phones or if they control us. We hear stories about people being fired over social networking posts or about information abuses. Every day, we struggle to establish our own identities in relation to the devices, only to find that innovation has changed the world again.

Glow is our chance to explore this changing world together. The devices lie outside of us, but our compulsions to respond to them, and our ambivalence about those responses, come from within. What are we afraid of and what are we longing for when we turn to our devices? In the face of constantly changing technologies, Glow explores the humanity underlying the technologies, and the empowerment of recognizing it.

First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
2125 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

September 20, 8:00 pm
September 21, 12:00 pm
September 21, 8:00 pm

Tickets:
$15 General Admission
$10 Students & 25-and-under

Directed by Matthew Foster
Musical Direction by Michael Hopewell

WHEN:
September 13 - 29, 2013
Wednesdays to Saturdays @ 8 p.m.
Sundays @ 2 p.m.

WHERE:
Urban Stages
259 W. 30th Street

Amy runs Emoh Ruo, the family sheep station in outback Australia. She's held onto the property through drought, bushfire, and falling wool prices, determined not to let it slip out of the family grasp. But when the family gathers over a scorching long weekend, Amy has to face up to the myths and lies the place has been built upon. Is she really holding on or is she just stuck?

After a successful first season featuring Cosi and Speaking In Tongues, Australian Made Entertainment is proud to kick off their second season with the U.S. premiere of Once We Lived Here, written by the critically acclaimed musical team of Dean Bryant & Mathew Frank. Winner of the 2009 Green Room Award for Best New Musical, this authentically Australian musical was described by Geoffrey Rush as "a beautiful, poignant piece of home-grown music theatre. It may echo Chekhov and Sondheim but it's thrillingly pure Oz."

Director: Matthew Foster
Musical Director: Michael Hopewell
Scenic Design: Katherine DeNeve
Costume Design: Emily Rose Parman
Lighting Design: Anthony D. Freitas
Sound Design: David Green
Stage Manager: Anna Demenkoff
Assistant Stage Manager: April Uzarski
Assistant Scenic Design: Katrina Gordineer
Dialect Coach: Leah Gabriel
Publicity: Kampfire Films PR

Charnette Batey as Deena
Kolton Bradley* as Curtis
Charles Browning* as CC
Aisha Curtiss as Lorrell
Frank Holmes* as Marty
Inuka Ivaska* as Michelle
Tunisia Renee* as Effie
Caliaf St. Aubyn* as Jimmy

featuring
Tamara Pilar Allen, Jennifer Ambler, Troy Anthony Burton, Donald R. King, Derrick Bryant Marshall, Peter McIntosh, Kendra Moore, Janelle Neal*, Ilene Pabon, Alex Pagels, Michael Terry * denotes member of AEA