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APRIL 22-MAY 2, 2021 THE 4TH ANNUAL PHILLY THEATRE WEEK PRESENTED BY THEATRE PHILADELPHIA WWW.PHILLYTHEATREWEEK.COM WWW.THEATREPHILADELPHIA.ORG [email protected] #PHILLYTHEATREWEEK ABOUT US WWW.THEATREPHILADELPHIA.ORG Founded in 2012, Theatre Philadelphia unites, celebrates, THEATRE PHILADELPHIA and promotes the Philadelphia region’s diverse and growing theatre comunity. We lead efforts that expand BOARD OF DIRECTORS audiences and engage the public to participate in our community’s work. Theatre Philadelphia envisions an equitable and inclusive region that champions and JASON LINDNER, PRESIDENT nurtures local artists. We aim to raise our city’s profile as STEVE PACEK, VICE PRESIDENT a world-class city and enrich the lives of Philadelphia-area citizens. EMILY ZECK, TREASURER DEBORAH BLOCK, SECRETARY PATRESHETTARLINI ADAMS LANESHE MILLER-WHITE RACHEL CAMP Executive Director KASH GOINS LaNeshe Miller White is a cultural TS HAWKINS producer, actress, and marketer. She is a ERLINA ORTIZ graduate of Temple University's School of Communications and Theater. She CONRAD PERSON believes in using art for social change and is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Theatre in the X, a West Philadelphia based theater company that produces accessible theater productions for Black audiences and PHILLY THEATRE WEEK provides opportunities for Black artists. She became the Executive Director of Theatre SUPPORTERS Philadelphia in August 2020. WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND KATHERINE CLARK THE VIRGINIA BROWN MARTIN FUND OF THE Marketing & Communications Director PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION Katherine joined Theatre Philadelphia in September 2017. As Theatre Philadelphia’s CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS Marketing and Communications Director, she AVERSA PR AND EVENTS focuses on building audiences and awareness for Philadelphia’s thriving theatre community. TICKETLEAP In addition to her work at Theatre YELP Philadelphia, Katherine is a filmmaker and local film screening series curator and THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE coordinator. THEATRE PHILADELPHIA FEATURING PREVIEWS THEATREPRESENTS PHILA- AND PERFORMANCES BY: DELPHIATHE 4TH ANNUAL PHILLYPRESENTS THEATRE WEEK • THE HUM'N'BARDS THEATER TROUPE THE 4TH AN- • THEATRE ARIEL • APORIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE KICK-OFFNUAL • LAUREL TREE THEATER PHILLY THE- • 11TH HOUR THEATRE COMPANY CELEBRATIONATRE WEEK • CIRQUE DU NUIT • THE STRIDES COLLECTIVE THURSDAY, APRIL 22 • DIE-CAST 6:00PM • HANNAH PARKE • THE GIDDY ROUND PREVIEWS, PERFORMANCES, AND MORE! • WE'RE TRYING UP HERE $15 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN ENTERTAINMENT • THE PHOENIX THEATRE WWW.PHILLYTHEATREWEEK.COM PLAN YOUR 2021 PARTICIPATING COMPANIES PHILLY THEATRE WEEK EXPERIENCE 11th Hour Theatre Company Nubienne Productions 1812 Productions Penn Theatre Ensemble The 2021 Philly Theatre Week showcases over Acting Without Boundaries People's Light People's Light 75 unique events and hundreds of performances! Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia Philadelphia Artists' Collective Use this downloadable guide to find out what's Philadelphia Dramatists Center happening between April 22-May 2. Events are Alexander Technique Philadelphia Philadelphia Scenic Works sorted by Free / Pay What You Can, $15, and $30 Philadelphia Theatre Company price points. Anastassia Vertjanova Ants on a Log Philadelphia Young Playwrights Aporia Artists Collective Philly PACK Plus, check out descriptions, tags, and genres. and Arden Theatre Company Re-Entry Committee of Philly tags. Looking for a streaming-anytime event? An August Wilson Consortium Theatre outdoor show? A comedy? You'll find all of that Biello Martin Studio Sewer Rats Productions here! Chris Davis Shamika Byrd MORE WAYS TO PLAN Cirque du Nuit Temple Theaters Crossroads Comedy Theater The Black Theatre Alliance of CSz Philadelphia Philadelphia WWW.PHILLYTHEATREWEEK.COM: The Giddy Round You'll find a searchable, visual Delaware Theatre Company Die-Cast The Gorgeousity calendar of all things on stage from The Hum'n'bards Theater Troupe April 22-May 2. Plus, each event is Dramatists Guild of America Drexel Co-Op Theatre Company The Phoenix Theatre completely unique! Find out how to The Strides Collective register on each show page. EgoPo Classic Theater Gemini Voices Co. The Telelibrary The Wilma Theater GET THE "WHAT'S ON STAGE" Hannah Parke Hella Fresh Theater Theatre Ariel NEWSLETTER: Theatre Exile Delivered to your inbox! Sign up for Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium Theatre Horizon our email list to receive daily Val Dunn and Jenna Kuerzi updates during theatre week. Plus, Inis Nua Theatre Company InterAct Theatre Company We're Trying Up Here go behind the scenes with artists, Entertainment performers, and more. Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Collective The Wilma Theater Wings of Paper SHARE YOUR STORIES: Lantern Theater Company Laurel Tree Theater Without A Cue Productions, LLC Use #phillytheatreweek to share Yes! And...Collaborative Arts your Theatre Week experience, and Leonard Dozier/Cineplay Productions Yes! And...Collaborative Arts to see what else audiences are Shadow Company discovering. Mallbodies EVENTS BY PRICE: FREE + PAY WHAT YOU CAN FREE + PAY WHAT YOU CAN ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES ANTS ON A LOG Journeys Curious: Think Outside the Pipeline! Thursday, April 22 - Sunday, May 2 Thursday, April 22 - Sunday, May 2 Pre-Recorded Theatre Event Theatre Related Film or Short Film Pay What You Can Pay What You Can Journeys, a celebration of life, love, and the enduring human spirit Curious: Think Outside the Pipeline! is the musical story of two that keeps us all moving forward. AWB company members will siblings who organize their neighbors to fight for clean air. With the perform songs and select scenes from Broadway’s greatest musicals. help of a songful community and a dancing pencil, Clio and Taylor learn to stand up for their beliefs, striving to make big change even Family-Friendly, Musical, Disability Awareness - Access any time with in the face of some bigger, more powerful people. This 40-minute registration musical is set to the Ants' award-winning soundtrack. Family-Friendly, LGBTQ+, Musical - Access any time with registration ADVENTURES IN THEATER HISTORY: PHILADELPHIA Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia Podcast APORIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE Thursday, April 22 - Sunday, May 2 But Not Uncle Vanya Available Any Time Thursday, April 22 - Sunday, May 2 A bi-weekly podcast about the history of theater and performance in Pre-Recorded Theatre Event Philadelphia! Starting in March 2021, it celebrates Philadelphia area Pay What You Can theater, and it is completely socially distanced! Uncle Vanya. But without. You know. Uncle Vanya. An existentialist History Podcast, Podcast - Access at any time with registration take on Chekhov’s classic work, where Astrov, Sonia & Yelena are left figuring out the story on their own. Created with scenes from the original text, woven together with letters between he & his muse, Olga Knipper of the Moscow Art Theatre, and new content from ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia playwright, Alice Hakvaag. Actors @ Play Classics, Devised, Experimental, Reading, Workshop - Access any Tuesday, April 27 from 4:00pm-5:00pm time with registration Online Workshop Online Alexander Technique training for actors. Alexander Technique AUGUST WILSON CONSORTIUM Philadelphia invites you to join us for class online: your first class is Celebrating August Wilson! FREE! Discover how this powerful tool for self-discovery has helped actors around the world free up their movement, their voices and Tuesday, April 27 - All Day their expressive impulses. Ariel Weiss has been helping actors in the Philadelphia area since 1988 and has served as faculty at the Brind Live Virtual Theatre Event School at the University of the Arts and Pig Iron School. Bring your sides, scripts and monologues and let’s play! Artists, academics, and community folks will come together to celebrate the life and works of one of the greatest playwrights of the Workshop - Access at specific times with registration twentieth century August Wilson. Drama, Family-Friendly, Panel Discussion, Town Hall / Open Forum, Workshop - Access at specific times with registration ANASTASSIA VERTJANOVA The Golden Cockerel Thursday, April 22 - Sunday, May 2 THE BLACK THEATRE ALLIANCE OF PHILADELPHIA Places, Please! - The Corner Pre-Recorded Theatre Event Pay What You Can Monday, April 26, 2021 from 6pm - 8pm The Golden Cockerel, one of Pushkin's charming shorter narrative Virtual Discussion or Industry Meeting poems, is getting a little love in this year's upcoming Philadelphia's Theater Week! Read in a chamber theater style and accompanied For Black Theatre Artists only -- Please join the Steering Committee by video work and shadow puppetry, The Golden Cockerel is sure to of BTAP as they present and discuss options, contacts, links for delight. rehearsal, performance/event spaces available to Black artists and companies, especially as the country prepares to return to in-person Classics, Experimental, Reading, Poetry - Access any time with productions in the not too distant future. BTAP is deeply interested in registration hearing from the Black Theatre community about what is needed (in terms of space) so please consider this event a space for discussion. Virtual Discussion or Industry Meeting, Town Hall / Open Forum - Access at specific times with registration FREE + PAY WHAT YOU CAN FREE + PAY WHAT YOU CAN BIELLO MARTIN STUDIO CROSSROADS COMEDY THEATER
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