Kiss Me, Kate
Forge opens its 65th season with Cole Porter's musical about two sparring exes staging The Taming of the Shrew, running September 11 through 27. Evenings at 7:30, Sunday matinees at 2, and park in the church lot at Washington and Main, not on First Avenue.
More at Forge Theatre
If JFK Survived Dallas
An alternate-history play staged at Forge over two nights, imagining the motorcade ending differently. The cast is being pulled from local actors right now.
If JFK Survived Dallas
An alternate-history play staged at Forge over two nights, imagining the motorcade ending differently. The cast is being pulled from local actors right now.
Script Tease: There She Goes
Forge reads a new play by local writer Steven Goldman straight off the page, actors and scripts and no set. Free, no tickets, walk in and sit down.
Around the same time
Gay Street Open-Air Market
Labor Day, and the street stays closed. Four blocks of Gay Street without cars, restaurant tables out in the road, and the shops on either side open for the holiday.
Last Day of Daily Mini Golf at Alverthorpe Park
The mini golf course at Alverthorpe Park runs every day through Labor Day, then drops to weekends only for the rest of September. This is the last everyday round of the year.
Festival of Fountains at Longwood Gardens
The fountain season runs to the end of September, and the gardens stay open on Labor Day Monday when most of Chester County is closed. Closed Tuesdays. Timed tickets sell out on holiday weekends.
