Theater

Temple Repertory Theater

Friends of Temple Theaters may know the sprawling Tomlinson Theater stage well, but this summer the space will be reimagined to facilitate a compelling, dramatic exchange between the actors and the audience. To achieve this, the audience will sit in a disarmingly intimate configuration—up close and personal with the stage and the actors—literally thrusting them into the action of the play. Read more »

CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN

Pig Iron Theatre Company will present 16 performances of a new original work CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN, a comic meditation on our deepest impulses and contemporary neuroscience’s hold on our imaginations.  Based on the“Three Brain” theory of Paul D. Read more »

Swim Pony Performing Arts

The performing arts collective behind Philly Fringe hits Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigious Fantasy in D (’09), The Giant Squid (’08) and The Ballad of Joe Hill (‘06) has established Swim Pony Performing Arts, an independent Philadelphia-based theater company dedicated to producing entirely original new work. Read more »

Swim Pony Performing Arts

Swim Pony Performing Arts is an independent Philadelphia-based theater collective dedicated to producing entirely new work that is original, strange and loud. Established in 2010, under the direction of Adrienne Mackey, Swim Pony’s mission is to create works of live performance that seduce and surprise audiences. All Swim Pony productions are created collaboratively by a rotating team of energetic theater artists actively working in Philadelphia’s vibrant arts and cultural community.

Contact Information: 

Haunted Poe

Brat Productions will unearth the images, characters and scenes from works by the master of the macabre for the world premiere of Haunted Poe, a theatrical production uniting literature, history and theater with the haunted attraction genre.
Read more »

BRAT Productions

Founded in 1996, BRAT Productions is committed to “thinking outside the proscenium” with performance pieces that are surprising and incendiary, entertaining and unsettling. BRAT’s mission is to create an audience of the future by producing theatre that breaks the rules; theatre that tests conventions; theatre that rocks! Over the years, BRAT has established itself as Philadelphia’s most adventurous theatre and is known for using unusual performance venues to enhance original and noteworthy productions. Read more »

Contact Information: 

The Wilma Theater

Leaving (U.S. Premiere)
May 19 - June 20, 2010 (press opening: May 26)
By Václav Havel
Directed by Jiri Zizka
Translated by Paul Wilson Read more »

The Wilma Theater

The Wilma Theater exists to present theater as an art form, engaging artists and audiences in an adventure of aesthetic philosophical reflection of the complexities of contemporary life. The Wilma produces thoughtful, well-crafted, productions of intelligent, daring plays that represent a range of voices, viewpoints, and production styles. Read more »

Contact Information: 

Philadelphia Young Playwrights

Philadelphia Young Playwrights taps the potential of youth and inspires learning through playwriting.

In the Classroom
A hallmark of Philadelphia Young Playwrights is the Artistic Team — comprised of a classroom teacher and a theatre professional as a teaching artist. The Team works with student writers to inspire collaboration, perseverance, and transformation. Each student in the program writes at least a full scene, and most complete one-act plays. Read more »