West Chester Comedy Festival: Thursday Showcase at Uptown
The festival's big-room Thursday show, five comics including Samantha Ruddy. Starts half an hour after the Turks Head set, so you can only pick one.
More at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
AM Radio Tribute Band
AM Radio replays the 1960s and early-70s hit parade at Uptown Knauer on Saturday, September 5, curtain at 7:30. Buy through the theater's own site; Uptown warns that resale listings are the only fakes in the building.
Social Sessions Open Jam Hosted by DJ HA
September edition of the Uptown open jam. Players sign up, DJ HA keeps it moving, and the room turns over every few numbers.
Bye Bye Birdie
Revival Productions stages the 1950s rock-and-roll sendup Bye Bye Birdie at Uptown Knauer, ten performances from September 11 to 27. Opening night tacks on a dress-up cocktail party with an open bar before the 7:30 show, and the September 24 performance is open-captioned.
Around the same time
Acoustic Sunday on the Patio: Trashcan Margaritas
The patio sets run May through September and this is the first of the three left. Trashcan Margaritas play, the tables are outdoors, and the restaurant serves right through it.
We Are Skeletons
We Are Skeletons take the Sunday slot at the Nail, the Haverford Road room that calls its Sunday night just chillin' and still puts a band on the stage.
Jurassic Park (1993)
Last day of the Jurassic Park run over Labor Day weekend. Good rainy-Sunday fallback if the holiday plans collapse.
