8130 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19118
(215) 247-8881
8130 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19118
(215) 247-8881
History of the Stagecrafters Theater The Stagecrafters was founded to “promote the advancement of knowledge and appreciation of drama in all its forms, and to encourage the writing and production of drama of a high literary and artistic standard by its members.” Motivated by a mutual love of drama, some twenty friends who had been acting together since 1926 under the sponsorship of the Germantown Women's Club, organized as The Stagecrafters in 1929. The theater was incorporated in 1932. A small house and a smithy of Revolutionary vintage were rented on the present site and used as a workshop and a clubhouse. Only a pot-bellied stove heated the workshop, where one-act plays were presented to an audience of about thirty. The actors appeared from the kitchen or stairway. That building now houses our lobby, a small kitchen area, and newly-renovated restrooms on the first floor, and our lighting and sound equipment on the second floor. Full length plays were still given at the Germantown Women's Club until the former smithy in front of the house (which served as a work shop) was enlarged to include a small stage and seating for one hundred. In 1936, the two buildings were altered and connected to form our present theater, nearly doubling the audience capacity. The stage and lobby entrances were enclosed later. In 1950 we were able to purchase both the theater and the lovely historic house on Germantown Avenue which contains an office, a meeting room, a rehearsal room and a kitchen for cast and crew dinners. In the early sixties, we acquired the adjoining property, which allowed us to add required fire-exit doors on the south side of the theater. In the summer of 2002, through a generous bequest from the Estate of Dwight V. Dowley, we were able to expand the lobby/cloakroom area and renovate the theater bathrooms to allow handicapped accessibility. This represents the configuration of our premises as it exists today.
All are welcome at worship at 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:15 a.m. (worship.together service for families with young children), and 11:15 a.m. Education for all ages is offered at 10 a.m. Nursery care is available. Evensong is at 5 p.m. on the first Sunday of the month, October through June. Summer worship schedule is 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.; education hour goes on hiatus. (There are some exceptions to the worship schedule above. Please check our schedule in the drop down on the home page of our website, or under the Music & Liturgy tab.) The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields is an Episcopal parish in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Director Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Musehouse founder and director, is an award-winning author and poet who received the Beatrice Hawley Award for her book of poetry, Slamming Open the Door, published by Alice James Books in April, 2009 and is the #9 best-seller for contemporary poetry in 2009. Slamming Open the Door is a collection of poems recounting the true story of the murder of her daughter, Leidy Bonanno, in 2003. Two of the poems from Slamming were nominated for a Push Cart Prize. Kathleen is a contributing editor of The American Poetry Review, her poetry has been published in Women’s Review of Books, Margie and Anthology:Beloved on the Earth which includes poems by Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver and Denise Levertov. Her recent book tour has included universities, conferences and bookstores throughout the U.S. Kathleen was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer in June, 2011, was interviewed by Terry Gross for NPR's nationally syndicated Fresh Air, featured in Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and is one of 67 recipients of a 2011 Knights Art Foundation Grant for Musehouse, a literary arts center in Philadelphia.
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