Salaries for New Full-Time Staff

1998

$55,000

To supplement salaries for the full-time and freelance artistic and production staffs. Included in this grant was creation of a full-time Costume Supervisor. Previous hiring had been on a show-by-show basis.

Theater

Grants & Grantees

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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Perfect Blue

A live and digital theatrical experience will question the impact of technology on human connectivity as two actors perform their roles on separate continents—one live in a theater and the other projected through a live-streaming video feed.

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Re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia: Marty Pottenger's #PHILLYSAVESEARTH

Through the ongoing Center-funded project re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center presents #PHILLYSAVESEARTH by performance artist and theater director Marty Pottenger.

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Questions of Practice

Case Study: New Paradise Laboratories’ Fatebook

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FOURTEEN at the National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center presents FOURTEEN, a theatrical performance that sheds new light on the Reconstruction era and the ratification of the 14th Amendment.

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News

Trey Lyford’s World Premiere of The Accountant Explores Memory and Loss through Physical Theater, Magic, and Crowdsourcing, Sept. 6–9

Philadelphia-based artist Trey Lyford creates an experience about memory and loss in the world premiere of The Accountant, running Sept. 6–9 at Christ Church Neighborhood House.

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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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Questions of Practice

Inside The Wilma Theater: Q&A with Blanka Zizka, Founding Artistic Director

Zizka talks with us about the Wilma’s identity and approach to theater making, her commitment to learning and experimentation, her vision for the future, and more.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Paula Vogel

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's current playwriting project is a Center-funded commission for Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, based on Don Juan Returns from the War.

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Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part II

Part II of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1896–Present as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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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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The Frank Rizzo Project

Theatre Exile explored ways to dramatize the story of Frank Rizzo, a polarizing Philadelphia political icon, with a special emphasis on group discussions with longtime residents of South Philadelphia.

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Macbeth

FringeArts presents South African theater artist Brett Bailey's adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, performed by the performance group Third World Bunfight.

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August: Osage County

The Kimmel Center presented the regional premiere of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, starring Oscar Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons.

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A Billion Nights on Earth at Harbourfront Centre

Thaddeus Phillips’ Center-supported visual theater work A Billion Nights on Earth plays at Harbourfront Centre’s international children’s festival in Toronto.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michael Rakowitz

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

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Heiner Goebbels: Imaginary Stages

The Philadelphia premiere of two works by Heiner Goebbels—an internationally acclaimed German composer and director—merges theater, performative installation, and experimental chamber music.

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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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Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole

People’s Light presents the world premiere of a new music-theatre work that sheds light on legendary vocalist and jazz pianist Nat "King" Cole's public and private personas.

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