Philly’s adventurous Mauckingbird Theatre Company, which explores classics “through a gay lens,” presents a staged reading of Maxwell Anderson’s cult classic The Bad Seed as their sixth-season fundraiser. Bad Seed’s proceeds will help mount this summer’s The Importance of Being Earnest, but it’s an exciting event in itself, a rarely seen play (a Broadway hit before the 1956 film) with a first-rate cast led by Amanda Schoonover as the titular amoral child plus Cheryl Williams, Mary Lee Bednarak, Lenny Haas and Leah Walton — and Martha Graham Cracker, Pig Iron co-founder Dito van Reigersberg’s outrageous drag alter ego, hosting the event.
Fri.-Sun., Jan. 25-27, $10-$15, Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St., 215-923-8909, mauckingbird.org.
