Are you feeling the buzz?  Feeling that strange combination of excitement, confusion, anticipation and apprehension that comes when you get your copy of the Festival Guide in the mail?

You know you're going to sit through some trainwrecks.  You know you're going to watch performances that make you want to jump out of your seat and say Yes!  YES!  YES!!

But do you know where you're going to be each night after the show?

 BRAT RETURNS!

Co-artistic directors Lee Ann Etzold and Madi Distefano have joined forces to bring you a brand spankin' BRAT PRODUCTIONS.  Re-envisioned, revised, revitalized.  As the hot smog of budget cuts and shrinking audiences attack our city, Brat women Etzold and Distefano bring us Back. To. Brat.

Completing this powerful, action-filled, estrogen-pumping triumvirate is Melissa Rodis.  General Manager and BratGirl Rodis is whipping the BratCave into squeaky clean shape -- and she is more than an alfred penny's worth!

In addition to receiving accolades from Philadelphia Weekly as the company with the "Best Production (Play) of 2009-10," BRAT Productions has also been nominated for 2 Barrymore Awards this season.

Show off YOUR video skills by entering our Haunted Poe Video Contest. Open to the first 50 videographers (13 and older) who sign up, you'll be able to attend a Haunted Poe dress rehearsal on September 29 or 30 to shoot your footage. Each video must be no longer than 2 minutes, include the Brat Productions/Haunted Poe logo (file located at the top of this post) and the tagline "A Tell-tale Heart Begins to Beat" (written or spoken), as well as the following information:

OPEN CALL - ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS WANTED for an: EDGAR ALLAN POE TELL-TALE HEART EXHIBITION

In Celebration of His 200th Birthday

LOOKING FOR…
Artwork inspired by Edgar Allan Poe or visual interpretation of his portrait and Writers to submit their own chilling tale of obsession, murder and guilt

ARTWORK to be SENT electronically in the following format :

• Completed submission form with artist contact information