Tickets on Sale Now! The popular, uplifting musical celebration of all things Irish, The Irish...And How They Got That Way, will make its Kimmel Center premiere for a four-week engagement beginning March 5 through March 29, 2009 at the Kimmel Center's Innovation Studio. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Frank McCourt, the musical production is produced by Howard Perloff. The official press opening will be Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 8pm.

Part of the Kimmel Center's Broadway Series, tickets at $47 are on sale now at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce Sts., (open daily 10am to 6pm), by calling 215-731-3333, or online at www.kimmelcenter.org/broadway. Group discounts are available by calling 215-790-5883.

Performances include: Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm; Saturdays at 5pm and 8pm; Sundays at 3pm. Additional performances are scheduled for Tuesday, March 10 and Wednesday, March 11 at 8pm. Beginning the week of March 10, additional performances are scheduled for Tuesdays at 8pm and Wednesdays at 2pm and 8pm.