The Reading Theater Project has announced first play of the 2025-26 season, “Proud” by Judd Lear Silverman.

The production opens Friday at 7:30 p.m. and performs over two weekends at the WCR Center for the Arts, 140 N. Fifth St., Reading. Tickets are available online or by calling 484-706-9719. More information can be found at ReadingTheaterProject.org/Proud .

About the play: In May 2018, a three-day traffic jam persisted on the Schuylkill Expressway — a pride of peacocks, escapees from the nearby Philadelphia Zoo, were purposefully marching down the side of the highway on a top-secret mission. This is their story, from their POV.

The cast features four actors playing peacocks: Kevin Wade plays Tom, the heroic leader; Patrick O’Neill plays Dick, the intellectual/ historian; Jose Aleja

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