Dividing the Estate

11 May 2011
00:00:00 - 00:00:00

People's Light & Theatre

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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People's Light & Theatre
39 Conestoga Road
Malvern, PA 19355

Philadelphia premiere of Horton Foote's play, set in a small Texas town c. 1987, about the dysfunctional Gordon family who are forced to agree on a course of action for their very uncertain future.

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Theater

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Kimmel Center, Inc., best known as a presenting organization and home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet, is one of the most well-attended cultural venues in Philadelphia.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Pig Iron is a company specializing in exuberant ensemble-devised works. The organization has begun to train the next generation of daring physical theater artists through the Pig Iron School of Advanced Performing Training.

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Event

Heiner Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen

FringeArts presents Songs of Wars I Have Seen as part of its Center-supported project Heiner Goebbels: Imaginary Stages.

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Grants & Grantees

Wide Awake: A Civil War Cabaret

Kimmel Center, Inc. collaborated with Philadelphia-based cabaret group the Bearded Ladies on a show about the Civil War that reexamined issues of race.

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Event

A Period of Animate Existence

The world premiere of a symphonic theater hybrid that brings together actors, classical musicians, intergenerational choirs, and electronic music.

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News

On Stage This Fall: Opera Philadelphia’s First Festival, Premieres from New Paradise Laboratories, Thaddeus Phillips, Tempesta di Mare, and More

An abundance of Center-funded performances take the stage this fall.

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Grants & Grantees

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Annenberg Center Live brought Ireland's Druid Theatre to Philadelphia for a weeklong engagement of Obie Award and Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh's production.

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Event

The Body Lautrec Sneak Preview at the PMA

Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen offer a sneak preview of their upcoming show, The Body Lautrec, in the galleries of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Event

The Accountant

Theater artist Trey Lyford premieres a visual theater piece that tells the story of a life remembered and the frailty of human experience.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a curator and has been a guest contributor to Center publications.

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Grants & Grantees

Facing Front: The Duets of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Drozdowski, a curator of performance, will host European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on Threading Disparate Sources into a Cohesive Whole

Michael Rakowitz describes the process behind creating a performance and radio project involving American veterans and the Iraqi refugee community.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Alex Torra

Torra’s ensemble-created, experimental performance work invites audiences to consider the complexities of contemporary cultural identity, community, and humanity.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Mara Isaacs

Mara Isaacs is the founder and director of Octopus Theatricals LLC, a company dedicated to producing and consulting in the performing arts.

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Grants & Grantees

Lydie Breeze Trilogy

The world premiere of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, an epic trilogy about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, will be performed in a consecutive cycle for the first time.

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Event

I Promised Myself to Live Faster at the 39th Humana Festival of New Plays

Philadelphia's own Pig Iron Theatre Company premieres their Center-funded, Charles Ludlam-inspired piece at the prestigious Humana Festival in Louisville, KY.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Anna Deavere Smith

Tony-nominated actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith is founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, a center for artistic excellence addressing social change.

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Sophia’s Forest

Composer Lembit Beecher presents a multi-disciplinary chamber opera that focuses on the experience of childhood.

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Grants & Grantees

The Flea and the Professor

This production marked the Arden Theatre's first commission for its children's series.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michael Rohd

Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, an ensemble-based company in Portland, Oregon that explores the intersection of theater with democracy.

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