For Immediate Release: April 20, 2006
Media Contact: John Stanton, Madhouse Theater Company, 215.260.4968

The Madhouse is proud to present the 4th installment of the city of Philadelphia’s first ever serialized theater series, Late Nite Snack, at The Playground in the Adrienne Theatre (2030 Sansom Street) on Friday, April 28 at 11pm. Tickets are only $10! For Snack tickets call 215-260-4968.

Serial isn’t just for breakfast anymore!

Following a busy March, where the Snack continued and Saturday Night Special was presented in the suburbs, Madhouse is back with its 4th installment of its Late Night Snack.

On the docket for April:

Head Case by John Stanton. We continue the series with two hilariously gut wrenching scenes. First, Johnny has bombed at the Open Mike Night. But backstage he gets an offer to join a freak show. Will be suck it up and take what he can get? Or will he get up on his proverbial high horse and not lower himself. He really doesn’t get to choose, because, in the second Head Case scene, (in it Johnny meets his equally huge-headed father, a meeting, though humiliating for Dad, strengthens the bonds between mother and son) it turns out Ma gets fired from her job for a sexual liaison by the deep fryer and Johnny has to take the freak show job. You don’t want to miss this stuff.

The Rental by Mark Harvey Levine. How about this for a birthday gift: a date. No one can be that desperate. But that’s what makes it so funny!

Grave Site #2 by John Stanton. A son at his father’s grave. The young man says his true feelings. It’s not what you expect.

Happy Hour #3 and #9 by John Stanton. More in a series of barroom scenes. #3: our favorite beer drinkers take on the topic of women. They set back relationships generations. #9: we introduce for the first time two women who trade in their beer for cosmos’. One of our hapless females has a momentary a mental lapse. Or was it a synapse misfiring? For whatever reason, she falls for the cook. This is not Emeril Agassi. We’re talking grease ball loser of the highest order. He lives in the dry storage! It’s one of those unexplained phenomenon. Like alien sightings.

Slap Happy by Alex Dremann. Yes, that’s right, its slap your co-worker day. The laughs and the slaps abound in this funny look at office infighting.

722 will feature new original music written specifically for the Late Nite Snack.

Madhouse co-Artistic Directors Karen Di Lossi and John Stanton assembled a core group of young, up-and-coming directors, writers and actors to work through the season. DiLossi strongly feels, “Audiences will go wild following these crazy characters over the course of the year. John and I really wanted to produce something that has never been done in the city and will give Philadelphians a new alternative to start their weekend!” Madhouse is proud to have reinvented the late night show in Philadelphia and to bring it to the surrounding suburbs. “We have a knack for finding good material from all over,” said John Stanton. “And there are great actors falling out of the trees in Philly.”

Late Nite Snack Show: April 28 at the Playground at the Adrienne. 2030 Sansom Street. 11pm. Tickets only $10. Call 215-260-4968

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