The Lieutenant of Inishmore

17 Feb 2011
00:00:00 - 00:00:00

Theatre Exile

Thursday, February 17, 2011

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Plays & Players Theater
1714 Delancy Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

When Mad Padriac, the most lethal soldier of the Irish National Liberation Party is called home to his small town, he finds that his only true friend, Wee Thomas the cat, has been assassinated. There will be blood.

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Grants & Grantees

ALIAS

Theater artist Thaddeus Phillips, a 2002 Pew Fellow, will create a new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela Alias El Mexicano.

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The Object Lesson

Pew Fellow Geoff Sobelle opens California's Kirk Douglas Theatre's season with his award-winning production of The Object Lesson.

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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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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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News

Tony Award-Winner John Guare's Three-Part Epic on Stage, April 25–May 6

Philadelphia audiences can experience the world premiere of the first full presentation of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, April 25–May 6.

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On Stage This Spring: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Frank Zappa’s genre-defying The Yellow Shark, John Guare’s Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon, and More

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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

Centrala

Founded in 2013 by Michał Zadara, Centrala is a theater company based in Warsaw, Poland.

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Grants & Grantees

Pushers

In order to examine the difficult topic of addiction and its consequences, Pushers uses celebrity culture as its lens, as a way to connect with West Philadelphia youth and encourage them to share their own experiences.

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Ruined

The Philadelphia premiere of Lynn Nottage's 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning play was the centerpiece of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's 35th anniversary season.

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Welcome to Yuba City

This new theater work was a cowboy-clown odyssey presenting fragments of a mythic American desertscape.

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Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

In its Philadelphia premiere, Taylor Mac’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated performance work journeys through 240 years of US history and popular songs, staged in two 12-hour installments.

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A Billion Nights On Earth

Pew Fellow and theater artist Thaddeus Phillips presents the world premiere of A Billion Nights On Earth, a visual theater work that blends performance art, pop-up storybook design techniques, and a cinematic score.

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Questions of Practice

Inside the National Constitution Center: Q&A with Director of Theatre Programs Nora Quinn

Nora Quinn, Director of Theatre Programs at the National Constitution Center, spoke with us about the opportunities that performance presents for audiences to connect with history and how the Constitution Center views the medium in relation to its other programming.

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A House With No Walls

This world premiere by resident playwright and Pew Fellow Thomas Gibbons, developed by InterAct Theatre Company, addressed the legacy of slavery and issues of cultural identity.

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Superterranean

The world premiere of a design-driven theater work, created in collaboration with MacArthur Fellow and Tony Award-winner Mimi Lien, considers how underground architecture, built environments, and hidden networks influence human behavior.

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In-Progress Showing of A Period of Animate Existence

Pig Iron Theatre Company presents an in-progress showing of its symphonic theater work A Period of Animate Existence, ahead of its September 2017 premiere.

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The First Day of School

1812 Productions, Philadelphia's all-comedy theater company, workshopped and produced the shared world premiere of a "soccer-mom sex farce" by Billy Aronson.

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The Select (The Sun Also Rises)

FringeArts co-commissioned and presented this world premiere based on Ernest Hemingway's novel and created by New York-based company Elevator Repair Service.

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ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury at Bryn Mawr College

In advance of the presentation of Embody the Art: Works by Tania El Khoury, Bryn Mawr College will host a conversation with El Khoury on April 9.

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