Edward Scissorhands

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

2006

$100,000

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, presented choreographer Matthew Bourne's dance-theater adaptation of filmmaker Tim Burton's gothic fairy tale Edward Scissorhands, in which an artificial man with scissors for hands falls in love with a suburban girl, but is considered a danger because his hands cause inadvertent injuries. The show was presented at Philadelphia's Academy of Music in January 2007. Working with a number of regional educational partners, the Kimmel Center offered subsidized tickets and a master class taught by the cast.

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Theatre Exile produced the Philadelphia premiere of Martin McDonagh's darkly comic bloodbath.

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Candide

John Caird's adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire Candide received its American regional theater premiere.

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A Billion Nights on Earth FringeArts Holiday Performances

Thaddeus Phillips' family-friendly, visual theater work returns to FringeArts for a series of special holiday performances.

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Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon

Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon is a theater artist and a 2000 Pew Fellow.

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The Quiet Circus

A 15-month-long series of performances and conversations held at sites along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers explored the city’s maritime and industrial heritage while considering human interaction with an urban landscape, community, and the contemplative.

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Elephant Room

Theater artist Geoff Sobelle honored his roots with a multilayered show about three magicians, simultaneously presented as a real magic show and a hoax.

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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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Adapt!

This world premiere play, written by the Wilma's artistic director Blanka Zizka, invites audiences to consider the immigrant experience and questions surrounding identity, homeland and exile, the idealism of youth, and the compromises of adulthood.

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Alan Brown

San Francisco-based Alan Brown is principal of WolfBrown, a leading researcher and management consultancy in the nonprofit arts industry.

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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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Alias Ellis MacKenzie September 11–13

Thaddeus Phillips' new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela *Alias El Mexicano*, premieres as part of the 2015 Fringe Festival, September 11–13.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Actor Dulé Hill on Nat “King” Cole’s “Quiet Revolution”

Actor Dulé Hill describes why the simple act of “being” can be an “act of quiet revolution.”

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Center’s Latest Book, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, Now in Print

The Center’s latest publication, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, is available June 26, 2018.

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Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz works at the intersection of social practice, installation, and performance.

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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Dust to Dust

Artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley contemplate the impact of climate change in an immersive installation of filmed performances, set in both the past and a speculative future.

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Diane Ragsdale

Performing arts expert Diane Ragsdale, a frequent panelist and keynote speaker at arts conferences, is pursuing a PhD in cultural economics at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon

EgoPo Classic Theater presents the world premiere of Lydie Breeze Trilogy as originally intended: with all three parts performed successively in a nine-hour marathon performance.

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Dublin by Lamplight

Inis Nua produced the North American premiere of Michael West's play, which incorporates a combination of performance techniques.

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Kim Whitener

Kim Whitener is the Producing Director at HERE in New York, where she works in partnership with Artistic Director Kristin Marting to curate and produce HERE's performance programs and activities. She also served as the Center's panel chair in theater in 2013 and as a Performance LOI panelist in 2014 and 2015.

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Kate Valk

Kate Valk is a founding member of New York-based theater collective Wooster Group, and has performed with the group for nearly four decades.

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