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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Red-Eye to Havre de Grace

Thaddeus Phillips produced his largest show to date: an original musical about the delirious final days of Edgar Allen Poe's life, which he spent traveling between New York and Richmond.

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Endless Shout: Raúl de Nieves

As part of the ICA's ongoing interdisciplinary project Endless Shout, multimedia artist and designer Raúl de Nieves presents a series of performances.

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Questions of Practice

Case Study: New Paradise Laboratories’ Fatebook

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Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at New York Theatre Workshop

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create this action-opera about Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

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Destiny Estimate

Playwright MJ Kaufman debuts an experiment in narrative structure that combines several forms of storytelling, physical language, and a cappella choral music.

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After the Rehearsal/Persona by Toneelgroep Amsterdam

FringeArts presented the US premiere of After the Rehearsal/Persona by director Ivo van Hove and his Dutch theater company, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, at the 2015 Fringe Festival.

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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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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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Facing Front Artist Talk: Building Performance

Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion will have spent the week with 35 Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and writers in an intensive workshop on process. This last day of the session will open a window into their work and process, allowing for time to talk formally and informally about how we build performances.

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A Fierce Kind of Love: Connecting Communities through Story and Dialogue

A Fierce Kind of Love, a new play about the fight for disability rights, will be part of a series of public programs meant to generate public discussion beyond the disability community.

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Rinde Eckert

Rinde Eckert is a writer, composer, librettist, musician, singer, actor, and director whose theater, musical theater, and dance theater pieces have been performed throughout the US and abroad.

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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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Three Sisters

The Arden Theatre Company embarked upon a two-year study of the work of Anton Chekhov, resulting in a new translation of Three Sisters, the first Chekhov play to be produced at the Arden.

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The End of the Way It Was Open Salon

New Paradise Laboratories continues its Center-funded investigation into improvisational structures, audience interactivity, and games of chance through the ongoing project An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams.

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Dulé Hill

Dulé Hill is an actor best known for his work as Charlie Young on The West Wing. In 2017, he appeared in the Center-supported music-theater work, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, presented by People’s Light.

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Thaddeus Phillips

Thaddeus Phillips (Pew Fellow, 2002) creates theater works that use transformational scenography, documentary footage, and improvisation to peer into not-often seen worlds.

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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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Melancholy, A Comedy

Sarah Felder's solo performance piece combined comedy, juggling, and multi-media projections to address societal discomfort around mental illness.

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The Winter's Tale

People's Light & Theatre Company mounted a highly physical production of Shakespeare's play with Guy Hollands of Glasgow's Citizen's Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland.

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Freedom Club

New Paradise developed this world premiere production, a sci-fi/historical riff on the American Civil War and a showdown inspired by a government raid in 1992.

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