Collaborators & Colleagues

Bruce Allardice

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Bruce Allardice has been the managing director of the multidisciplinary Ping Chong + Company since 1988. In this capacity, he has traveled extensively around the world to promote international engagements and collaboration. He was a Center panelist in theater in 2010.

References

Ping Chong + Company website

News

Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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Endless Shout: Virago-Man Dem In-Process Showings by Cynthia Oliver

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents in-process showings of Cynthia Oliver’s dance-theatre work Virago-Man Dem, organized by Danielle Goldman.

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Grants & Grantees

The Devil and Mister Punch

The 2011 FringeArts Festival featured the American premiere of Improbable Theatre's production, which took inspiration from the iconic puppet show Punch and Judy.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Estelle Parsons

Actress Estelle Parsons has found success on stage, screen, and television, often playing characters who can best be described as fanatical or neurotic.

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Destiny Estimate

An experiment in narrative structure that combines several forms of storytelling, physical language, and a cappella choral music, this world premiere play will investigate "questions of prophecy, fate, and predestination," says Kaufman.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Home

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Home, the third part in Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy.

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Christopher Colucci

Colucci's sound designs for theater are distinguished by their sense of musicality, and what he describes as a "sensitivity to the power of sound to evoke the ineffable."

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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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Hello Blackout!: WTF (Welcome: The Future!) Sessions

New Paradise Laboratories presents a series of discussions that invite audiences to participate in conversations with thinkers and art makers to explore the philosophical themes within Hello Blackout!.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Flea and the Professor

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

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is a renowned playwright perhaps best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993.

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Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole at Geffen Playhouse

Originally commissioned by People's Light, the new music-theatre work Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole makes its West Coast premiere at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

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