Philadelphia, PA—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced more than $960,000 in grants from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI) to 13 theater companies, presenters, and theater independent artists. This year's PTI-funded performances represent a broad spectrum of imaginative programming for the stage that will engage the public in lively, sometimes unconventional ways. Over the course of the 2010-2012 theater seasons, Hans Christian Andersen will go Pop, two works by famed Irish playwright Martin McDonagh will be interpreted by two different companies, the theater experience will go mobile, and puppets will reveal their dark sides.
Among the projects funded:
Both the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Theatre Exile will produce darkly comic plays by OBIE Award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh. The Annenberg Center, a leading presenter of Irish theater and music events in the region, will bring Ireland's Druid Theatre to Philadelphia for the first time, to perform The Cripple of Inishmaan. The production will be directed by Druid's founding director Garry Hines, who first discovered and produced McDonagh's work.
Among the projects funded:
Both the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Theatre Exile will produce darkly comic plays by OBIE Award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh. The Annenberg Center, a leading presenter of Irish theater and music events in the region, will bring Ireland's Druid Theatre to Philadelphia for the first time, to perform The Cripple of Inishmaan. The production will be directed by Druid's founding director Garry Hines, who first discovered and produced McDonagh's work.
