Domino Players to Present The Waiting Room by Megan Smith

January 30, 2012

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Reading, Pa. – The Albright College Domino Players will present The Waiting Room by Megan Smith on Friday, February 3, and Saturday, February 4, at 8 p.m. in the Wachovia Theatre, Center for the Arts. 

A free talkback with actors, director and playwright will follow both performances.  This show is for mature audiences only.

The price for the show is free. Donations for the Women’s Medical Fund will be accepted.  For any questions please call the Albright College box office at 610-921-7547.

Written by the sister of Sheryl Smith, director and Albright class of 2013, this controversial play about women in the waiting room of an abortion clinic received critical acclaim when it was first performed in 2010, at Bryan Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Planned Parenthood of South Jersey has since produced the show.

Sheryl Smith and playwright Megan Smith are from South Jersey. Sheryl is a junior who is majoring in theatre and secondary education / English. Megan graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2010, where she majored in theatre and sociology. Megan now resides in Cambridge, Mass.

The Center for the Arts is located on the Albright College campus at 13th and Bern Streets, Reading, Pa. For more information or disabled assistance, please call 610-921-7526, or visit www.albright.edu/centerforthearts.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. More than half of students have dual/individualized majors in as many as 200 different combinations annually. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 800 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.