If you haven’t had a chance to see the Curio Theatre Company‘s staging of  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, you are in luck because they just added three more shows. The wildly popular performances have been packed every night since the show opened on April 22. The run was originally scheduled to close this Saturday.

The added shows at the Calvary Center (4740 Baltimore Ave.) will be May 19, 20, 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10/$15 and are available here.

Penn’s student move-out began Saturday and will continue through May 18. The key days to keep in mind are Tuesday and Wednesday, May 10 and 11, when Spruce Street will be closed between 34th and 38th Streets from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Penn Public Safety says that authorized vehicles (parents etc.) will be allowed to access Spruce Street at 38th and must exit Spruce at 34th.

The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia reminded us that bikes will have access down Spruce on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Here are a few photos from yesterday’s May Fair at Clark Park.

About 50 people gathered outside of The Rotunda near 40th and Walnut to begin a march that would cross the city from “river to river” to protest upstate “fracking,” a process that uses toxic chemical to extract natural gas from shale.

Hundreds more protesters were expected to join in as the march proceeded across the Schuylkill River to Love Park and then on to Penn Treaty Park on the banks of the Delaware River for the annual Shadfest.

The march began with a reading from the Pennsylvania constitution and a brief explanation of the fracking process. The march is an attempt to raise awareness to the damage the process in northcentral Pennsylvania could do to the Delaware River watershed, which helps supply the Philadelphia area with drinking water.

The march was organized, in part, by the group Protecting Our Waters.

Here’s a slideshow from the beginning of the march:

UPDATES:
• The hunt at Malcolm X Park has been moved to the First Corinthian Baptist Church at 5101 Pine St. The noon start time is still on.

Rain has washed out the egg hunt scheduled for today at Clark Park. We will keep you posted on a possible rescheduling and also on the other hunts scheduled for Malcolm X Park and St. Mary’s. The original story on the hunts is here.

The Community Education Center, a non-profit and community based arts center in West Philly, needs your help. All you need to do is click a button. If enough of us do that the center will receive a $50,000 grant.

The voting is part of Kraft Foods/Maxwell House Drops of Good Community Houses grant competition. The CEC is one of 10 locations across the country vying for a $50,000 grant. Five will get the grants and the CEC is currently fifth in the voting by a fairly slim margin. Go to this page to vote. They will ask you for your e-mail address to make sure that you are a real person (don’t worry, no marketing) and then you’re done.

Rebuilding Together Philadelphia is helping with the grant. The community online magazine Flying Kite has a nice feature today on CEC Executive Director Terri Shockley.

Here is the CEC’s video pitch for the competition: