Electric Theatre Company is bringing a New York City tradition to Scranton with a Rent Party Revival on Jan. 23 at 5:30 p.m. at the theatre on 326 Spruce St., 2nd Floor.
Rent parties started in Harlem in the 1920′s and when they fell out of fashion after the Second World War, they were revived in Greenwich Village during the Beat Era. Now, Electric Theatre Company is hosting a Rent Party featuring a Battle of the...
January 6th, 2009 | Downtown | Keep Reading
Electric Theatre Company will get 2009 started with “The Syringa Tree,” performed by Scranton native, Maura Malloy. The production is part of ETC’s annual festival of the monodrama, Acting Alone 2009.
“The Syringa Tree” by Pamela Gien views apartheid South Africa through the eyes of a white girl. Malloy will play 24 characters, black and white, young and old, in this examination of the relationships that form...
December 16th, 2008 | Art | Keep Reading
After a bit of a delay, we continue our series introducing the new resident artistic company of Scranton’s Electric Theatre (formerly The Northeast Theatre) today with a profile of Conor McGuigan.
McGuigan is a native of the South Side of Scranton who began working with The Northeast Theatre in 2002 and, since that time, has appeared in numerous local productions. He said he was thrilled when the theatre moved to the...
September 23rd, 2008 | Featured | Keep Reading
The Electric Theatre Company (formerly the Northeast Theatre) will soon open its 17th season with a production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man.”
For the first play produced under its new name, the Electric Theatre Company chose this Shaw comedy that begins with a Swiss mercenary from the AustroSerbian army who finds refuge in the bedroom of a young upper class Bulgarian lady during a...
August 28th, 2008 | The Arts | Keep Reading
Scranton art and theatre lovers turned out Saturday night to celebrate the launch of the new Electric Theatre with a Sparks and Feathers masquerade party. David Zarko, artistic director for the theatre, sent us a full wrap up and it sounds like it was quite an event.
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July 22nd, 2008 | Featured | Keep Reading
We continue our series introducing Northeastern Pennsylvania theater-goers to the new resident artistic company of Scranton’s Electric Theatre (formerly The Northeast Theatre) today with a profile of David Zarko. Keep Reading
July 18th, 2008 | The Arts | Keep Reading
