Creative Works of Lancaster is pleased to announce the return of local sketch comedy troupe Happy Time Explosion Show to the Lancaster stage after a near-three year hiatus!

Shows are April 27, 28, and 29 at 9 p.m. at the Ware Center. Founding members of the Happy Time troupe will be partnering with new local writers and performers to produce a night of all-out, no-holds-barred comedy. Audiences can expect the hallmark absurdity, wit, and irreverence that have characterized Happy Time Explosion Show ever since its 2007 debut, “Too Much Turkey Makes Grandma Go Blind,” which introduced Lancaster to speed dating gone wrong, a Noah who loved puns, and a family who nearly killed each other playing Scrabble. Happy Time Explosion Show is excited and proud to remain a comedic force in the Lancaster arts community and looks forward to entertaining audiences at this show at the Ware Center.

Location: The Ware Center, 42 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA
Dates: April 27, 28, and 29 (Friday through Sunday)
Show time: 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10 each, or 3 for $25

Creative Works of Lancaster has presented a host of performing and artistic events through every season of 2011…

• Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, a fully staged reading of the classic labor play, was presented in March at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster…

• The Sockfather, a sock puppet parody of The Godfather, played to standing room only crowds in June at Lancaster Dispensing Company…

• Our first “Works in the Park” production of Shaw’s Arms and the Man drew hundreds, many first-time theatre-goers, to Musser Park in August…

• Artie Van Why’s 9/11 play, That Day in September, starring Brian Martin, was produced at the First United Methodist Church in September…

• The popular Mobile Art Gallery reappeared at October’s First Friday…

• October also saw the Creative Works-sponsored New Play Festival by members of the Lancaster Dramatists Platform (whose bimonthly play readings Creative Works also sponsors) at the Fulton Theater Clubhouse…

• We collaborated with Wood Stove House in November at The Candy Factory to bring Lancaster its first production of the nationally known 24 Hour Plays…

• And finally in December we produced the first full production of the work of playwright Harry Kondoleon with the uproarious yet touching Christmas on Mars in The Ware Center…

That’s 8 different events at 8 different venues in downtown Lancaster. All were highly acclaimed, and all except two were free (and those two were a minimal $10).

A major thanks to those who have donated their time, ideas, energy and money  to help make our first year be a great one.

Together we can bring the Lancaster area more new theatre, art, comedy, music…

in short, the Works!

The Lancaster Dramatists’ Platform will present New Play Readings on Friday, February 3rd at 9:00 PM in the Fulton Theatre’s Education Building, 24 N. Prince Street in Lancaster.

As First Friday is winding down, join the Platform for a presentation of new short plays by local playwrights, Erich Goldstein, John Rohrkemper and Nelly Torres. The plays will be performed as readings, with scripts in hand, by local actors.

The February 3rd readings are free and open to the public. For more information about the event or about the Lancaster Dramatists’ Platform, please email lancasterdramatists@gmail.com, call (717) 723-8355 or visit www.creativelancaster.org/friends-and-partners/lancaster-dramatists-platform.