Frankenstein

Sedgwick Theater
7137 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia

Frankenstein is the world's most iconic Gothic nightmare. It started on a cold, wet night in 1816, when Mary Shelley first dreamed of a "hideous phantasm," a man patched together from the parts of other men. And for 200 years, that same Creature has continued to lurch and lumber through countless more night-terrors, not to mention books, plays and movies -- his bone-chilling step never halting in two centuries. Come celebrate the 200th birthday of one of the greatest horror stories ever told, Mary Shelley's timely tale of humanity's obsession with knowledge and of the unintended consequences of scientific innovation, when Frankenstein lurches onto the stage of Philadelphia's Sedgwick Theater.