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June 22-28, 2006

Arts Agenda : Last Chance

Last Chance

Catch It or Regret It

GALA Visual Arts 18th Annual Exhibition

Runs through June 24, Highwire Gallery, 1315 Cherry St., fourth floor, 215-829-1255

This annual show allows LGBT artists to pour their deepest emotions onto canvas without censorship. Joel Kaylor's ceramic wall pieces comment on a certain controversial president and his certain controversial war. Marianne McCafferty integrates inspiring words from poems and literature into her mixed-media collages. The diverse show also includes pottery, photography, prints and a silent auction.

Woodmere Triennial of Contemporary Photography

Runs through June 25, Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-247-0476


This second triennial features a good mix of work by well-established local photographers such as the late Arnold Newman, as well as up-and-comers, including recent Drexel grad Sarah Stolfa. In Jake in Transition, Clarissa Sligh presents a revealing photo diary of a female's metamorphosis into a male. It's clear that David Graham, whose photos often feel like products of being at the right place at the right time, was on a quest to locate charming, odd and silly portraits of the American landscape (pictured).

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Runs through June 24, The Stagecrafters Theater, 8130-34 Germantown Ave., 215-247-8881

A group of writers struggles to come up with gags and sketch comedy every week for an arrogant and demanding comedian, Max Prince. With quick quips and the old-style bantering comedy of the 1950s, Neil Simon's play, inspired by his golden days of comedy writing for "Your Show of Shows," touches on not-so-common topics of the era: divorce, pill-poppin' boozehound comedians, McCarthyism, bankruptcy and manic depression. But hey, those things are pretty funny now, right?

 
 
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