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Matt Harrington
Luigi Sottile
Geneviève Perrier
Set & Lighting Design kevin rigdon Production Manager roy w. backes
Teresa Avia Lim
Sound Design robert kaplowitz
Costume Design alejo vietti Production Stage Manager DANielle Commini
NYC Casting stuart howard and paul hardt
Dramaturg Carrie chapter
PTC Casting Director amy dugas brown
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from the producing artistic director Dear Friends, As of this writing, we have just concluded our third annual festival of new work called PTC@Play which we described in the program as “9 days, 21 plays, 70+ artists and YOU!” The “YOU!” part was particularly successful this year because our festival brought unprecedented attendance from subscribers, casual theater-goers and others throughout the community who converged at our theater every night to hear brand new plays read aloud by a fearless group of actors from Philadelphia and afar. With fresh scripts by Lee Blessing, Carlyle Brown, Bill Cain, Bruce Graham, Lucas Hnath, Julie Marie Myatt, an amazing group of up-and-coming Philadelphia playwrights, and students from our Drama Contact program, it was a shot of energy and a reason to celebrate at the end of a long winter. It was also a reminder of how theaters and audiences together can play a vital role in helping playwrights shape their work. PTC@Play also brought back wonderful memories from long ago when Theresa Rebeck, the author of Seminar, was in residence with us for an entire year being mentored by master playwright Arthur Kopit on the finer points of playwriting. Fresh out of Brandeis with a devastating sense of humor, a fully formed point of view about sexual politics and a singular writing style, Theresa was a force to be reckoned with, even then. Fast forward a couple of decades and now with a Pulitzer nomination, dozens of successful plays, novels, films and television credits (Smash, L.A. Law and others) under her belt, her voice and point of view is very much the same, only richer and more finely honed. Our mentee has become a master and perhaps the final proof of this lies within the script of Seminar itself. Theresa has created a delightfully demonic (and accurate) character in Leonard, the international literary figure charged with instructing four young novelists in a private writing class. She also brilliantly delineates the insecurities and large, but fragile, egos of the young writers. I would like to think her year spent with us helped to plant the early seeds that resulted in Seminar -- a play that I consider to be her finest to date. In any case, we welcome her back to Philadelphia Theatre Company and hope you join us when she appears on stage following the matinee on March 24th as a part of our American Playwrights in Context series. We also offer a first-time welcome to director Scott Schwartz who has become one of Theresa’s foremost interpreters, having directed productions of four of her plays in other cities. Thank you so much for being with us and I look forward to chatting with you in the lobby of the Suzanne Roberts Theatre!
Sara Garonzik Producing Artistic Director
FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR Dear PTC Friends, What an exciting time to be at Philadelphia Theatre Company! We are so pleased you have joined us for Seminar, Theresa Rebeck’s funny and piercing look inside the lives and plots of young writers. Like many of you, I find this inside peek into the creative process as delicious as it is exhilarating. This is part of the reason why PTC offers you so many opportunities to meet with our artists and creative team members throughout the year. Subscribers and patrons are invited to join PTC for a behind-the-scenes conversation at a number of Patron Enrichment Programs (PEP) for each show (see details on the next page). So many of you share your generosity with PTC, and in thanks for your philanthropic support, we offer even more exclusive events where you have the chance to dive deeper into each actor, designer, and playwright’s creative life. Our Artist Circle salons give us a chance to hear from the best dramatists and performers of our time, as well as hearing from you about how each show has impacted you, and what you’d like to see on our stage. As always, we hope you will consider an Annual Fund gift to PTC this year, to bolster these special outreach and engagement programs, as well as our broad education events both inside the classroom and at our theater. PTC serves over 2,000 students each year from public schools devoid of other arts programs. We are always looking to expand our reach and your contributions help underwrite teen participation in theater-making and theater attendance throughout the year. Thanks for your support and enjoy the show!
Shira Beckerman Managing Director PS - A special ‘thank you’ to our longtime subscribers who help sustain the theatre year after year. Remember to renew now for the best prices and seats for next season!
PEP Events
Our FREE Patron Enrichment Programming gives the audience a chance to see behind-the-scenes of each production and discuss the ideas and issues raised by each show.
American Playwrights in Context (APIC) March 24 post-matinee Meet playwright Theresa Rebeck at our post-matinee onstage interview series, American Playwrights in Context, which will highlight her versatile career as one of today’s most celebrated writers of the stage and screen!
Audio Description March 30 2PM performance
Backstage Tour March 30 post-matinee Join PTC’s Technical Crew and Literary Manager for a post-matinee backstage tour of the set. Learn how the set was conceived and built, and how the crew runs the show!
Book Club
HAPPY HOUR Thursdays and Fridays from March 21 through April 12, 6:30pm - curtain Mix, mingle, and enjoy great drink specials.
Meet-the-Artists (MTA) March 21, March 26, April 4 Stay around right after the show for a talk-back and audience Q&A with the cast of Seminar.
Open Captioning April 6 2PM performance
Special Topics April 3 post-matinee “O Mentor! My Mentor!: Exploring the Barbed Complexity of Teacher-Student Dynamics in the Writing World” panel discussion
March 21 @ 6:30PM Grab a signature drink from our PTC Happy Hour, and join us in the lobby alcove to discuss Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys.
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CAST Leonard............................................................................................................................................Rufus Collins Martin........................................................................................................................................Matt Harrington Izzy................................................................................................................................................Teresa Avia Lim Kate..........................................................................................................................................Geneviève Perrier Douglas..............................................................................................................................................Luigi Sottile
New York City Today SEMINAR is performed without an intermission
The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. All electronic devices such as beepers, cell phones, and watch alarms must be turned off prior to the performance.
THE ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS EMPLOYED IN THIS PRODUCTION ARE MEMBERS OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
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who’s who Rufus Collins (Leonard) Philadelphia Theatre Co. debut. Broadway: The Royal Family, To Be or Not To Be, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, An Ideal Husband, and The Homecoming. Off-Broadway: Aristocrats, Orson’s Shadow, House and Garden. Regional highlights: Michael Von Seibenburg Melts Through the Floorboards (Humana Festival), The Old Masters (Long Wharf ), The Autumn Garden and Dissonance (Williamstown), The Real Thing, In This Corner, Dinner with Friends, Spinning Into Butter, Hedda Gabler, Indian Ink, The Ruling Class, Macbeth, Inexpressible Island, Cakewalk. Film: Wanted, Joshua, Milia. Television: “Elementary,” “Law & Order” (all versions), “All My Children,” “The Guiding Light,” “One Live to Live.” Rufus studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Matt Harrington (Martin) Philadelphia Theatre Company: debut. Broadway: Harvey (Roundabout Theatre Company). New York and regional: Moonchildren and The Puppetmaster of Lodz (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Now Circa Then (TheatreWorks, West Coast Premiere), The Center of Gravity (Portland Stage, World Premiere), Death of a Salesman (Weston Playhouse), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Syracuse Stage), and workshop productions of Meeting Michael Cera, Books-mart, and Cecily with NYU’s Studio Tisch. Matt has also been involved in several readings and workshops at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center, Naked Angels, Lark Play Development Center, and with Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood Collective. Television: Bored to Death, Gravity, The Good Wife. Training: MFA, NYU Graduate Acting.’ Teresa Avia Lim (Izzy) Theatre: Originated her roles in Water by the Spoonful at Hartford Stage, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them at Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville and Concerning Strange Devices From the Distant West at Berkeley Rep. Also appeared in productions of Lorenzaccio, Pericles, Macbeth, and the Tempest at The Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C., and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at W.H.A.T. Television: Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Training: Yale School of Drama: an Inaugural Recipient of Jerome L. Greene Foundation Scholarship Geneviève Perrier (Kate) is happy to be returning to PTC. She appeared last season in reasons to be pretty, which earned her a Barrymore for Supporting Actress. Most recent credits include: Women in Jep at the Arden and Private Lives (Barrymore nomination) at the Lantern. Favorite roles include: Kyra in Skylight (Barrymore), Girleen in The Lonesome West (Barrymore Nom.), and Mrs. Computer in The Annihilation Point with the Berserker Residents. She can be seen this summer in The 39 Steps at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival directed by Matt Pfieffer. Geneviève is also a teaching artist at Rowan University. Luigi Sottile (Douglas) is thrilled to be making his PTC debut in Seminar. You may have seen him recently as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband at the Walnut Street Theater. Other credits include Fred: A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep); Joe: Angels in America; Leo: In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play - Barrymore Nomination (Wilma); Christian: Cyrano (Arden); Templar: Nathan the Wise (People’s Light); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Act II); Father Welsh: The Lonesome West;
who’s who Lush: The Hothouse (Lantern). Up next: Andre in Three Sisters (Arden/Trinity Rep). Thank you to Scott and PTC; eternally grateful for such a supporting family; and a huge thanks to the Philadelphia theatre community. Theresa Rebeck (Playwright) New York productions: Dead Accounts, Seminar, The Understudy, Mauritius, The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, Spike Heels, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, View of the Dome, and Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist). Publications: Collected Plays Volumes I, II and III, Free Fire Zone, all with Smith & Kraus, and two novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms With a View, with Random House/Shaye Areheart Books. Film: Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker (adapted from her play The Scene). Awards include the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama and a Peabody Award for her work on “NYPD Blue,” the National Theatre Conference Award, the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award, a Lilly Award and in 2011 she was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. She is the creator of the NBC drama, “Smash.” Scott Schwartz (Director) directed the Broadway productions of Golda’s Balcony and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). His Off Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), tick, tick…BOOM! (Outer Critics Circle, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick, Rooms: A Rock Romance, Kafka’s The Castle (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), Miss Julie and No Way to Treat a Lady. He also directed Golda’s Balcony Come to Jet before or after the show. on tour in London, in Los Angeles at the Great food, great wines, Wadsworth Theatre and in San Francisco great atmosphere. at American Conservatory Theater. He directed the World Premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon starring Lauren Flanigan at Opera Santa Barbara and subsequently at New York City Opera. Schwartz’s other recent credits include the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against (Alley Theatre), the world premiere of A Room With A View (The Old Eat. Drink. Enjoy. Globe) and Next To Normal (Alliance TheAll at our global vineyard. atre). Regional theaters include: Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Rep, Berkshire 1525 South Street Theater Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, 215.735.1116 • jetwinebar.com Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Dallas
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who’s who of Barnard College, Columbia University. She is married to Philadelphia actor Ben Dibble and together they have three children. Sara Garonzik (Producing Artistic Director) has directed and produced for Philadelphia Theatre Company since 1982, and introduced more than 140 world or regional premieres of major new American plays and musicals to Philadelphia including new work by Terrence McNally, Bill Irwin, Jeffrey Hatcher, Christopher Durang, John Henry Redwood, Tracey Scott Wilson, Naomi Wallace and Bruce Graham, among others. In 1991 she was named to the Philadelphia Theatre Company Board of Directors. Other service has included: Board Member of ArtReach and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance (GPCA); theater panels for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio State Councils on the Arts; theater panels for The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the McKnight Foundation Advancement Awards for Playwriting, and the O’Neill Playwrights Conference; the TCG Fox Foundation Actor Fellowships, and as a judge for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is listed in “Who’s Who of American Women” and was named one of Business Philadelphia’s and Philadelphia Magazine’s “People to Watch.” She has received the Award of Honor from the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia High School for Girls and the President’s Award from the Philadelphia Young Playwrights. In 2007, she received the Achievement Award from the American Association of University Women, an honor she proudly shared with Dawn Staley and Terry D’Alessandro. In June 2008, she received the first Arts Pioneer Award created by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. She currently serves as an advisory Board Member of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, as Vice President of the Board of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (after serving 3 years as president), and on the advisory board of PlayPenn, a new play development organization. Shira Beckerman (Managing Director) joined PTC in August 2011 to partner with longtime Producing Artistic Director Sara Garonzik as the Company’s co-executives. Previous to Philadelphia, Ms. Beckerman served as Managing Director of the 2011 Drama Desk Award recipient Pearl Theatre Company, producing over 25 of the best works from the classical canon, and overseeing coordination of the company’s significant growth and transition in leadership, programming, and performance venues. Shira originally joined The Pearl in 2006 as General Manager and has also served as a producer at SoHo Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival; Associate Director of Marketing and Assistant Director of Development at Yale Repertory Theatre; and Management Fellow and National Conference Assistant for Theatre Communications Group (TCG). She has held other leadership and administrative positions at: Ensemble Company for Performing Arts, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Conservatory, Brandeis/New Rep ON TOUR, and North Shore Music Theater. Shira has enjoyed the opportunity to mentor and advise students at Temple University, New York University, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and Yale University. Ms. Beckerman holds a B.A with highest honors from Brandeis University and an M.F.A in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama.
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VENUS IN FUR by David Ives directed by Kip Fagan
MAy 24 through june 23, 2013 MUltiple 2012 tony award nominationS!
David Ives
No stranger to PTC (All in the Timing and Lives of the Saints), the cunningly comedic David Ives tells a darkly seductive tale introducing us to Vanda, an unusually talented young actress determined to land the lead in Thomas’ new play based on the classic erotic novel, Venus in Fur. Vanda’s emotionally charged audition for the gifted but demanding playwright/director becomes an electrifying game of cat and mouse that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex.
“Name Dropping”
In seminar A Reference Guide by carrie Chapter, PTC Dramaturg
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Yaddo
An exclusive artists’ retreat colony located in Saratoga Springs, New York, Yaddo acquired its peculiar name
from one of the original family’s children, who substituted it for the word “shadow” (which is also how “yaddo” is pronounced as well). However, the Trask family, who owned the lush, 400-acre expanse of property, faced the deaths of all four of their children, and financier Spencer Trask wanted to transform their estate into an artists’ colony as a gift to his author wife, Katrina. Since its first artists arrived in 1926, well over 6,000 artists have soaked their creative juices on the hallowed grounds, including James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Philip Roth, Langston Hughes, and Jonathan Franzen. Its doors are open to all kinds of residencies like film, dance, photography, literature, sculpture, painting, performance, and music.
The MacDowell Colony
After one of America’s first great composers, Edward MacDowell, passed away, his wife decided to give other artists the opportunity to create in Edward’s home - a tranquil, woodsy farm in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Its colony status first began in 1907, and has hosted thousands of writers, poets, playwrights, artists, and composers in their residencies, at a rate of approximately 20-30 invited artists at a time, over period of five weeks to two months. Tin House
In the spring of 1999, Tin House
magazine was launched as a literary publication that would highlight new work from new writers, without the academic stuffiness of its literary journal predecessors. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and even a crossword puzzle would be commingling in a single issue. The magazine soon crossed over into its own brand of publishing, Tin House Books, in 2002, and now holds an annual summer writers’ workshop on the Reed College campus in Portland, Oregon.
Bennington Bennington College in Vermont boasts one of the strongest creative writing residency programs in the country. In addition to accepting students of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, the program is also known for its prominent writers–in-residence. In the past, Bennington has hosted the likes of Robert Pinsky, Sue Miller, Erica Jong, Mary Gaitskill, Francine Prose, and Geoff Dyer. Currently, Rick Moody is one of its writers–in-residence, and it counts Amy Hempel, Phillip Lopate, and Susan Cheever among its core faculty.
Frank Conroy
short stories, Wolff has also garnered praise for his two novels as well. He has held a professorship at Stanford University since 1997, and even had a brief position as the director of its Creative Writing program. Robert Penn Warren
An influential teacher and author, Conroy gained a devoted following once he became director of the acclaimed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a position he held until his death in 2005. His memoir, Stop-Time, which was published in 1967, was nominated for a National Book Award, and cemented his literary stature. Tobias Wolff
Primarily known as a writer of memoirs - most notably This Boy’s Life - and
In addition to his literary success with his book, All the King’s Men, Penn Warren is also responsible for helming the age of New Criticism. Both his poetry and his novels are oft-praised bodies of work. Penn Warren taught sporadically in his later life (he was a Rhodes Scholar), including a brief stint at Yale University, a school he briefly attended as a student. * Algonquin Round Table – a historic group, an in-crowd, of writers, actors, and critics who met for lunches at New York City’s Algonquin Hotel from approximately 1919 to 1929. Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Harpo Marx, Edna Ferber, and George S. Kaufman were among the privileged few.
A Vicious Circle of Famous (and Notorious) Literary Mentors and Their Protégés Carrie Chapter
PTC Dramaturg
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” —Ernest Hemingway
In SEMINAR there is the power dynamic – a percolating mixture of elation, envy, greed, and ingenuity - which exists in teacher-student relationships. In the best case scenario, both parties find a synergy of respect and achievement with the worst case scenario being a sea of dissonance. History is full of examples where greatness has begotten greatness, much to the delight or chagrin of the mentor in question.
Ezra Pound (The Cantos) and T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Poets
Retrospectively quoted by the New York Times as the literary embodiment of “Felix & Oscar”, this poetic pair was dubbed a true odd couple: Eliot, the tidy wunderkind, and Pound, the rascally revolutionary. After reading Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, it was Pound who implored Eliot to leave his academic destiny at Oxford in order to fully engage his inner artist (he even went one step further with confronting Eliot’s family himself with the news). This was not the first time Pound caught a whiff of genius and pursued it: he acted as an unlikely benefactor to a down-andout James Joyce as well in the form of small fund-raising and even throwing him a pair of shoes. As an editor, Ezra Pound had the grace and insight of a Greek muse in Eliot’s eyes. He challenged every convention,
Influence:
John Hamilton Mortimer’s “Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare”, 1776
and promoted Eliot’s work with unflagging tenacity, earning the title “il miglior fabbro” (“the finer craftsman”) by his thankful protégé. While Eliot christened Pound with such a grand, Italianate allusion, Pound honored Eliot with the nickname “Old Possum.” Pound, who was raised in the Philadelphia area (and tried, without success, to finish a degree at the University of Pennsylvania), grew increasingly mercurial, though, and in his later years, he lost favor with most of his peers, even T.S. Eliot.
Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady) and Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence), Novelists/ Short Story Writers
In truth, Wharton pursued Henry James long before he took notice. She had been in his presence twice because they floated among the same circle of friends, but James never approached her. Admiring of his work and desperate for his thoughts on her writing, she sent the manuscript of her short story collection, and James only confided in one of their mutual friends about his critical response (to make the Jamesian prose short, there was variance in her voice, and he thought she wrote better when she wrote as herself ). However, by 1900, Wharton and James were sharing literary territory in various journals and magazines of the day. Struck by one particularly controversial story she wrote, James at long last wrote her a letter, excerpted here:
“Dear Mrs. Wharton, I brave your interdiction & thank you both for your letter & for the brilliant little tale in the Philadelphia repository [Lippincott’s]. The latter has an admirable sharpness & neatness, & infinite wit & point – it only suffers a little, I think, from one’s not having a direct glimpse of the husband’s provoking causes – literally provoking ones. . . The subject is really a big one for the canvas – that was really your difficulty. But the thing is done. And I applaud, I mean I value, I egg you on in, your study of the American life that surrounds you. Let yourself go in it & at it – it’s an untouched field, really: the folk who try, over there, don’t come within miles of any civilized, however superficially, any ‘evolved’ life[…]Do send me what you write, when you can kindly find time, & do, some day, better still, come to see yours, dear Mrs. Wharton, most truly, Henry James” Three years later, after a slew of correspondence, Wharton and James met in person, an encounter that led to a steadfast friendship as well as many adventures as travel companions. The latter is especially well chronicled in a Wharton “road trip” piece about their time “motoring” together.
Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio) and William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury) and Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms), Novelists/Short Story Writers
A tri-cornered hat of inspiration, Sherwood Anderson became the torchbearer for two of our country’s greatest novelists. Faulkner fell in line first. He was besotted with Anderson’s short stories, and sought him out as a mentor, a task Anderson heartily accepted. He encouraged Faulkner to infuse his work with his experiences as a young man, in order to create a more complex humanity for his characters and their environment. He soon found publishers for Faulkner’s work, and, like true fraternity brothers, the two lived together in a conflicted state of mentorship and resentment. As time went on, their contentious relationship worsened: Anderson accused Faulkner of exaggerating his past, so Faulkner flexed his claws, lambasting Anderson’s work in public (in particular, Winesburg, Ohio). Anderson then connected with Ernest Hemingway, but it was a brief flurry of an affair; their correspondence did not make it to even six months. However, the two writers bonded over their similar approaches to writing, and even at their first meeting, Hemingway craved Anderson’s advice. For example, Anderson was the one who first planted the seed of world travel in Hemingway’s head, encouraging him to indulge in the Paris scene (for better or worse) and to write about his war encounters as much as his experiences with love. But, Hemingway never quite conquered his jealousy with regard to Anderson’s prestige factor and his luck with the ladies, and the pair did
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Richard Wright (Native Son) and Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man), Poets/Novelists
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Wright and Ellison represent divergent forces in search of a common goal. Both writers sought to give the African-American man and his experiences a showcase in American literature. Originally a student of music and sculpture, Ralph Ellison had no designs on a writer’s life – until he met Richard Wright in 1937. Langston Hughes acted as the conduit between the two men, by introducing Ellison to Wright’s poetry, and later to Wright himself. Though Wright was stretched thin between his writings and activity with black communist groups in New York City, he agreed to take Ellison on as his young mentee. Wright’s most significant contribution to Ellison’s career occurred through the Federal Writers’ Project, a position he dutifully secured for his new charge. Its effect was enormous. His eventual novel, Invisible Man, would come out of those interviews and essays Ellison conducted and compiled through the Project. However, with the publication of Wright’s Native Son, Ellison broke ties with his mentor. His reason for the split had to do with Wright’s approach to his characters, which he felt
was overly simple, angry, and hopelessly repressed. In his own writing, Ellison made the choice to portray the African –American identity with greater emphasis on articulation, perseverance, and positive strength.
Joyce Carol Oates (We Were the Mulvaneys) and Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated), Novelists
Marianne Moore (Tell Me, Tell Me) and Elizabeth Bishop (Exchanging Hats), Poets
In 1934, a college librarian arranged a meeting between “poor Vassar girl”, Elizabeth Bishop, and the venerable Marianne Moore. The two met outside the NY Public Library on a bench, and soon developed a devoted camaraderie, even though they formally addressed each other as “Miss Moore” and “Miss Bishop” for over two years. Bishop maintains that Moore’s “enlightening” stream of letters and presence in her life constantly inspired her as a writer. Though they laughed off speculations of a mentoring relationship, their effect on one another became abundantly clear, particularly in Bishop’s poem, “Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore,” in which she summons her friend over the Brooklyn Bridge to “come flying.” The poets also paralleled each other in their writerly habits, both taking years revising single poems and finding their muse in the beauty of nature.
As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Foer worked on his Creative Writing thesis with his teacher and advisor, author Joyce Carol Oates. His thesis would later become the novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which resulted in a $500,000 advance and The Guardian First Book Award. Strangely enough, Foer never imagined pursuing the life of an author, until he enrolled in Oates’s class. It was Oates who pulled him aside to persuade him otherwise. During a school break, Oates did something she never did before, she wrote a personal letter to Foer delivered to his home in Washington, D.C., detailing his artistic potential: “You appear to have a very strong and promising talent coupled with that most important of writerly qualities, energy.” Enclosed was also a reading list composed by Oates with Foer’s emergent style in mind. He was only 18 years old.
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In Memory of Kenneth S. Kaiserman The Board and Staff of Philadelphia Theatre Company were deeply sorrowed by the passing of our dear friend and board colleague, Kenneth Kaiserman. During 38 years as a member of the PTC Board, Ken served in numerous leadership roles, including President, Chairman of the Capital Campaign, and Chairman of the Development and Governance Committees. His deep love of the Company and his passion for the art of theater was reflected both in his unwavering commitment to PTC’s artistic goals and his extraordinary philanthropy. His generosity to PTC, sustained over nearly four decades, helped make possible PTC’s dream of building and moving into the Suzanne Roberts Theatre in 2007. His discerning taste in the performing arts as well as his astute business sense were highly valued by many, while his kindness and humility forever endeared him to successive generations of PTC staff and volunteers. Ken holds a lasting place in PTC’s institutional memory and in the minds and hearts of all who knew him. He will be deeply missed. Donations made in memory of Kenneth S. Kaiserman Susan Balder Ms. Sally Baldus Robert and Diane Bass Hon. and Mrs. Michael M. Baylson Deanne L. Bennett Carol Blank and Dr. Horace Barsh Bourse Merchants Association Robert and Harriet Blum Nick Cinalli Cupersmith, Wilensky, Steiger, Stempler & Company, LLP Fran and Neal Cupersmith Joseph A. Damico Jr. Donna and Barry Feinberg Stephen and Mary Feldman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Forte Firstrust Bank Toni Alperin Goldberg Judy and Joel Golden Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gorenstein
Richard and Wendy Glazer Ms. Clara Hollander Lee and Judy Jolles Bruce and Arlin Kardon Andrew Kesier and Ellen Milgrim Jim and Nina Korsh Monika Krug and George Edel David Lerman and Shelley Wallock Dale Penneys Levy and Richard Levy Mrs. Judith T. Lieb Priscilla M. Luce Paul and Hope Makler Brett Mandel Lynn and Joe Manko Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mather James and Susan Meyer Elma J. Mirto O’Donnell & Naccarato, Inc. Barbara Presseisen David and Helen Pudlin
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playwright
Theresa Rebeck on telling a story
In SEMINAR each character is looking for their individual voice, a unique channel through which a story gets told. In fall 2006, playwright Theresa Rebeck was interviewed by Evangeline Morphos for BOMB magazine. In addition to discussing her body of work, her influences, and her philosophies as an artist, the interview kept returning to the idea of storytelling and the role of the playwright as a storyteller. Here are some excerpts from Theresa Rebeck relating the art of storytelling: “I’m always circling the question, What is the truest way to tell the story? It’s taken me a long time to understand that not everybody is interested in the truth. Many people are more interested in a lie or a reassuring version of reality. Obviously, I don’t have a corner on the truth, but I’m interested in digging it out. I went to Brandeis University, whose motto is Truth: Even Unto Its Innermost Parts. I find that a staggeringly beautiful idea. [...] There’s something in the human spirit that yearns for and responds to a welltold story. Somewhere in our DNA we know that stories are out there to help us understand what we’re doing here on this planet. We hunt them out the way people seek out enlightenment[….] Once in a while I say, ‘I’m an artist,’ and people get startled that I use the word artist to define myself. For some reason we’re not used to that word anymore,
which seems a shame. Especially because I don’t know what else you’d call me, or people like me. Writer would be another accurate word. So would playwright. But the one I use a lot, that covers film and television as well as theater, is storyteller. I am somebody who sits around and tells stories at the dinner table, narrating my day. I tell stories all the time; my head is swimming with them. In that sense, I am a neoclassicist and would define myself as one. I am interested in beginnings, middles, and ends, and the elegance of that. I find it graceful and hopeful and life-affirming. Stories teach us so much. I really do see them as a sort of humble, human way to struggle toward enlightenment.” - Theresa Rebeck, Storyteller From BOMB Magazine article (BOMB 97, Fall 2006) www.bombsite.com (Excerpted from an interview conducted and written by Evangeline Morphos)
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Roger & Lillian Youman Arnold & Barbara L. Zenker Margo K. Zitin & Mimsye Katz Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Zutz Gifts in Memory In Memory of Ray Duval Nicolina DiSciascio Sharon Kling PTC Production and Front of House Staff In Memory of Laurie Beechman from Dr. Nathan & Dolly Beechman Schnall In Memory of Carol Schwartz from Bryna & Andrew Scott In Memory of Annie Richardson from Jerome Napson In Memory of Donald S. Wilf and in Honor Dr. Peter Arger from Elaine W. Baer and Gloria A. Moskowitz
Gifts in honor Neal Cupersmith from Fran and Leon Levy Alice George from Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jacobs Jerry Riesenbach from Lee Ducat Priscilla M. Luce from Ira Silberman Andrew Scott from Phyllis & Howard Fischer In Honor of Suzanne and Ralph Roberts 70th Wedding Anniversary
Carole Haas Gravagno and Emilio Gravagno Mrs. Judith T. Lieb Marjorie & Jeffrey Honickman Mr. and Mrs. Victor L. Johnson Ms. Suzanne Scott
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Major GiftS Philadelphia Theatre Company is grateful to the following major donors for their foresight in helping us in achieving a bright future. It is because of their commitment, goodwill and continued generosity that PTC has grown to become one of the finest theatres in the region. Thank you!
$1,000,000+
$20,000 to $49,999
Suzanne F. and Ralph J. Roberts
$50,000 to $99,999
Tracy and Rick Burke David and Nancy Colman Alice L. George Estate of Ellis K. Ginsberg Sally Lyn Katz The Eleanor M. and Herbert D. Katz Family Foundation Monika Krug Susan & James Meyer Carol Saline and Paul Rathblott Bryna and Andrew Scott
Dorothy J. del Bueno Priscilla M. Luce Sue Perel Rosefsky** Harriet & Larry Weiss Alan and Janet Widra
*The Peter Arger and Donald Wilf New Play Fund ** Kenneth S. Kaiserman Fund for Artistic Excellence
$100,000 to $999,999 Dr. Peter H. Arger* Julia & Eugene Ericksen The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation The Kaiserman Family Kaiserman Company, Inc. H.F. and Marguerite Lenfest
A legacy of theatre The aspirations of Philadelphia Theatre Company have always been fueled by the generosity of theatre enthusiasts from the region. The Visionary Society, named after the theatre’s founders, was formed to pay tribute to the special group of visionary supporters who have remembered Philadelphia Theatre Company in their wills or in other gift plans. When you join the Society you reach past your own lifetime to ensure that PTC’s rich tradition of artistic excellence will be preserved for generations to come. If you have included us in your plans, we hope you will let us know. Or, if you are interested in learning how simple it is to do so, please call our office: Christine Mickletz | Director of Development | 215-985-1400, x115 cmickletz@philadelphiatheatrecompany.org
Corporate Partners Let Philadelphia Theatre Company put your business in the spotlight. For more information about corporate memberships, sponsorships and in-kind support, please call 215.985.1400 x115 Corporate Sponsors ($25,000+)
HealthAmerica PECO Co-cOrporate Sponsors ($10,000 – $24,999)
The ARAMARK Charitable Fund Blank Rome LLP Lincoln Financial Group Foundation US Airways Corporate pARTNERS ($5,000 – $9,999)
Dranoff Properties, Inc. Firstrust Bank Flaster Greenberg Republic Bank Sage Financial Group Team Clean Corporate mEMBERS ($3,000 – $4,999)
The Haverford Trust Company Samuel T. Freeman & Company Shamrock Clean Spring Garden Construction Company Wells Fargo Foundation other Corporate gifts
Aribella Events Beneficial Bank The Bourse Merchants Association Carl Alan Floral Designs Carrier Corporation Cozen O’Connor Cupersmith, Wilensky, Steiger, Stempler & Company, LLP DoubleTree by Hilton, Philadelphia Center City Kaiserman Company O’Donnell & Naccarato, Inc. The Palm Restaurant Philadelphia Event Planners Wines Til Sold Out - WTSO.com Valley Green Bank
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Official airline
Matching Gifts
Alliance Bernstein Bank of New York Mellon GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Matching Gifts Program Merck Partnership for Giving Lincoln Financial Foundation Matching Gift Program UBS Employee Giving Program FOUNDATION SUPPORT
The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation The Barra Foundation, Inc. Beatrice Fox Auerbach Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Caroline J. Sanders Trust The Civic Foundation, Inc. The Charlotte Cushman Foundation Connelly Foundation Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation Dramatists Guild Fund Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award Linda & David Glickstein Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Haley Foundation The Hamilton Family Foundation Independence Foundation Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts-Education Fund Knight Arts Challenge of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Lomax Family Foundation Philadelphia Theatre Initiative Fund for Children of The Philadelphia Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Suzanne F. and Ralph J. Roberts Foundation The Victory Foundation Virginia Brown Martin Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation
Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation The William Penn Foundation June and Steve Wolfson Family Foundation The Wyncote Foundation Government SUPPORT
Philadelphia Theatre Company receives State arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a State agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Philadelphia Theatre Company is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Philadelphia Theatre Company gratefully acknowledges the support of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
This list acknowledges donors as of March 5, 2013. PTC strives for accuracy in its donor listings. If there is a misprint or your name has been inadvertently omitted, please call 215.985.1400 x117 Make a donation through your workplace United Way Program. Our Donor Choice Number: 4273 Contributions made through the United Way support our educational programs with at-risk youth in Philadelphia and the region.
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Philadelphia Theatre Company Productions Key Code
All productions are Philadelphia premieres unless otherwise note v
World Premiere
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Co-Production
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East Coast, Professional or American Premiere
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Production moved on to NY or other regional theater.
the Suzanne Roberts Theatre
(2007 - Present)
2012 - 13 vSTARS OF DAVID book by Charles Busch adapted from book by Abigail Pogrebin THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall 2011 - 12 red by John Logan The Scottsboro boys music and Lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb book by David Thompson nthe outgoing tide by Bruce Graham reasons to by pretty by Neil LaBute 2010 - 11 the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee book by Rachel Sheinkin music and lyrics by William Finn RACE by David Mamet LET ME DOWN EASY by Anna Deavere Smith vBella: the color of love by Theresa Tova and Mary Kerr RUINED by Lynn Nottage Colin Quinn: Long Story short 2009 - 10 Humor Abuse by Lorenzo Pisoni and Erica Schmidt The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel vGolden Age by Terrence McNally vRed Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins by Margaret Engel & Allison Engel Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson Chicago’s the second city 50th anniversary tour 2008 - 09
vUnusual Acts of Devotion by Terrence McNally
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan & Judy Gold Resurrection by Daniel Beaty At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee Grey Gardens book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel, Lyrics by Michael Korie vthe city of nutterly love co production with Chicago’s The Second City
2002 - 03 Fully Committed by Becky Mode King Hedley II by August Wilson The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown vmA Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher 2001 - 02 Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies nThe Infidel by Bruce Norris The Play About the Baby by Edward Albee Barbra’s Wedding by Daniel Stern
2007 - 08
2000 - 01 mCompleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher vmNo Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs by John Henry Redwood This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
vBeing Alive music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, conceived and directed by Billy Porter M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang Third by Wendy Wasserstein vThe Happiness Lecture by Bill Irwin
plays & Players theater
(1982 - 2007)
2006 - 07 nMurderers by Jeffrey Hatcher The Frog Bride by David Gonzalez vNerds://A Musical Software Satire by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Erik Weiner, music by Hal Goldberg lIn The Continuum by Danai Gurira & Nikkole Salter Orson’s Shadow by Austin Pendleton 2005 - 06 vmAdrift in Macao book & lyrics by Christopher Durang, music by Melnick Ben Franklin: Unplugged by Josh Kornbluth in collaboration with David Dower After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage vmSome Men by Terrence McNally 2004 - 05 Trumbo by Christopher Trumbo with Bill Irwin The Story by Tracey Scott Wilson Elegies: A Song Cycle by William Finn Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg 2003 - 04 Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden vAccording to Goldman by Bruce Graham The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
1999 - 00
lDinah Was: The Dinah Washington Musical by Oliver Goldstick
vWhite People by J.T. Rogers Wit by Margaret Edson Side Man by Warren Leight 1998 - 99 How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel vmLives of the Saints by David Ives Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh 1997 - 98 Full Gallop by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson Minutes from the Blue Route by Tom Donaghy A Question of Mercy by David Rabe nmBirdy by William Wharton, adapted by Naomi Wallace 1996 - 97 vmBunny Bunny by Alan Zweibel Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel lSylvia by A.R. Gurney Seven Guitars by August Wilson 1995 - 96 Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher I Am A Man by Oyamo Broken Glass by Arthur Miller
Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally 1994 - 95 All in the Timing by David Ives Keely and Du by Jane Martin The Woods by David Mamet vmMaster Class by Terrence McNally 1993 - 94 Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies The World Goes ‘Round by John Kander and Fred Ebb n“2” by Romulus Linney Night Sky by Susan Yankowitz 1992 - 93 Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas Mountain by Douglas Scott with Len Cariou vTiny Tim is Dead by Barbara Lebow Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally 1991 - 92 National Anthems by Dennis McIntyre Miss Evers’ Boys by David Feldshuh nLady-Like by Laura Shamas vmNagasaki Dust by W. Colin McKay 1990 - 91 Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet The Cocktail Hour by A.R. Gurney with Celeste Holm nPill Hill by Samuel Kelley 1989 The Middle of Nowhere songs by Randy Newman and Tracy Friedman 1988 - 89 Elaine’s Daughter by Mayo Simon The Voice of the Prairie by John Olive Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet Hannah Senesh by Lori Wilner and David Schechter adapt: of Senesh diaries Avner the Eccentric with Avner Eisenberg 1987 - 88 vlStauf by Eric Saltzman and Michael Sahl co-produced with the American Music Theater Festival Orphans by Lyle Kessler nSouthern Exposure: Sister and Miss Lexie by Eudora Welty, adapt. by Brenda Curran; and From The Mississippi Delta by Endesha
Ida Mae Holland
vmHospitality by Allan Havis Out! by Lawrence Kelly First fully-mounted production 1986 - 87 Williams & Walker by Vincent D. Smith vlCitizen Tom Paine by Howard Fast with Richard Thomas, co-produced with The Kennedy Center Days and Nights Within by Ellen McLaughlin As Is by William M. Hoffman 1985 - 86 Painting Churches by Tina Howe lSplit Second by Dennis McIntyre. Co-produced with Freedom Theatre. Original commissioned from Grover Washington, Jr. Great American Sideshow: One Acts by Romulus Linney, Alan Zweibel and Robert Pine Extremities by William Mastrosimone 1984 - 85 Terra Nova by Ted Tally Geniuses by Jonathan Reynolds To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday by Michael Brady Fool for Love by Sam Shepard 1983 - 84 Getting Out by Marsha Norman True West by Sam Shepard Strange Snow by Steve Metcalfe Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson 1982 - 83 Wings by Arthur Kopit Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon by James McLure Final Passages by Robert Schenkkan Dylan Thomas by Jack Aranson with Jack Aranson 1981 - 82 When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder by Mark Medoff The Vietnamization of New Jersey by Christopher Durang Nuts by Tom Topor
various theatres
(1975 - 1981)
1980 - 81 The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson Alice Through The Looking Glass company developed by Lewis Carroll Hooters by Ted Tally
Jesse and the Bandit Queen by David Freeman Getting Out by Marsha Norman 1979 - 80 Streamers by David Rabe vThe Insanity of Mary Girard by Lainie Robertson The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill vDementia 80 by Don Steele 1979 Ashes by David Rudkin vThe Exhibition by Thomas Gibbons vSome of My Best Friends are Women by Don Steele and Edward Earle 1978 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie by Albert Innaurato vThe Persecution of Eugene Waterman by Louis Lippa vThe Final Concert Tour of Mickey Colossus by Peter Mattaliano A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare vCenter City Soap by Dorothy Louise 1976 - 77
vThe Lion and the Lamb by Joseph Orazi vFuture Tense by John Sevcik vThe Keeper by Karolyn Nelke 27 Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams vMars by Clay Goss She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (Theatre in the Court) Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Theatre in the Court) 1976
vMarlowe by John Yinger Rain by W. Somerset Maugham, adapted by Colton and Randolph vThe Crossing/As I Lay Dying A Victim of Spring by David Rabe & Leslie Lee vThe Three Daughters of M. Dupont by E. Brieux, translation by Pauline Jones Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (NewMarket) 1975 The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice Sargeant Musgrave’s Dance by John Arden vBetween Now and Then by Leslie Lee
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about our THEATRE The Suzanne Roberts Theatre, designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates, is owned and operated by Philadelphia Theatre Company and is the Company’s first permanent home. PTC is proud that the creation and development of its home, in partnership with Symphony House developer Carl Dranoff, has become a model for civic redevelopment; one that capitalizes on the ability of the arts to reinvigorate districts for residential and commercial revival. The space is contemporary, elegant and urbane, and features a 160’ double height glass facade on the Avenue of the Arts. The interior is defined by a uniquely warm and sculptural 365 seat main stage auditorium with a proscenium arch of interlocking leather tiles, a spacious and contemporary mezzanine, and a planned 100 seat flexible second stage for new play development, intimate performances, and educational programming. Our stage house significantly enhances our ability to respond to the most imaginative visions of our creative teams with its spacious wings, soaring fly gallery, and trapped stage. The Theatre offers a full range of public amenities with an on-site box office, ample public restrooms, a concession stand, and lobbies designed for patron comfort and engagement with the City visible through large expanses of glass. The grand staircase leads from the main floor to the double height mezzanine lobby. The Theatre’s contemporary universal design makes it one of the country’s most accessible performing arts venues and supports one of PTC’s core values ensuring that our artistry is accessible to everyone in our community.
about suzanne Roberts Philadelphia Theatre Company is honored to name its home after Suzanne Roberts--actress, playwright, director, educator, producer and philanthropist. For more than 40 years, Suzanne has been a leading champion of the Philadelphia theater community. An actress by training, Suzanne has engaged as an artist in meaningful public service with projects as diverse as performing in dramas to inspire the purchase of war bonds during World War II to national appearances in plays discouraging racism and alcoholism. Demonstrating the breadth of her artistry, Suzanne has performed on many stages throughout our region in plays from Shakespeare to A.R. Gurney. She has also performed in a variety of media including radio and television and is well known to audiences as the creator and host of the Emmy Award winning “Seeking Solutions with Suzanne.” One of Suzanne’s lifelong passions has been using theater to improve the lives of young people. Through the Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund, she has supported the outreach work of theater and dance companies in sharing their creativity with school children and young adults. Portrait of Suzanne Roberts by Alan Kole. Photo of Mainstage of Suzanne Roberts Theatre, home of Philadelphia Theatre Company, by Mark Garvin
for your information Box Office Hours:
During Productions Tuesday - Sunday: 12:00pm to showtime Monday: Closed Between Productions Monday – Friday: 10:30am to 5:30pm Saturday & Sunday: Closed
Open Caption Performance: 4/6/13 at 2pm
For audience members who are hearing impaired. A large LED captioning screen, positioned beside the stage, scrolls text of the lyrics/dialogue in tandem with the lyrics/dialogue of the performance.
Assisted Listening Devices:
State-of-the-Art assisted listening headsets that use an infrared signal to wirelessly deliver all dialogue, music and sound from the show at a personally adjustable volume are available for free at every PTC performance through the House Manager or concessionaire. Please ask about T-coil device options that are compatible with your hearing aid.
Audio Description Performance & Sensory Workshop 3/30/13 at 2pm
For audience members who are blind or low vision. Assistive listening devices are provided, through which a trained audio describer fills in the visual details and action on stage, live while it is being performed. A sensory workshop is provided before the show in which teaching artists provide in depth explanations of the visual aspects of the show, with patrons often invited on stage to touch and experience the set and costumes. Large Print programs available upon special request. Contact the box office to make a reservation for this workshop and/or performance. PTC’s accessibility programming is sponsored by the Lincoln Financial Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Accessibility to the Arts in Pennsylvania for Individuals with Disabilities Program. Accessibility technology in the Suzanne Roberts Theatre was made possible by a grant from the Lincoln Financial Foundation.
Photography
The use of photographic or recording devices is strictly prohibited. Please note: The audience may be photographed by PTC staff for archival and publicity purposes. If you prefer that your likeness not appear in PTC materials, please notify the House Manager.
Group Ticketing & Events
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Student Matinees, In-School Workshops, and Summer Camp
Contact PTC’s Education Department at 215.985.1400 x111
Facility Rentals
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Volunteer Opportunities
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Advertising Opportunities
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Parking and Public Transportation
The Theatre is easily accessible by the Walnut/Locust and Lombard/South SEPTA Broad Street Subway stations, 15th/16th PATCO station, Route “C” bus, or taxi. On-site parking is available at the InterPark lot, as well as nearby garages along Broad Street. PTC Subscribers can pick up $2-off parking vouchers for the Interpark at the Box Office.
Restrooms, Elevator, Water Fountains
LADIES’ & MEN’S ROOMS are located on the orchestra level of the Theatre. All restrooms are ADA compliant. The ELEVATOR is located to the left of the concession stand which may be used to reach the mezzanine level. WATER FOUNTAINS are located outside the restrooms.
Lost & Found
If you have lost or found an item, please see the Box Office or House Manager. PTC is not responsible for loss or theft of personal belongings.
Lobby Video Installation
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2012/13 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Priscilla M. Luce, President E. Gerald Riesenbach, Esq., Chairman David L. Colman, AIA, Vice President Julia Ericksen, Ph.D., Vice President Glenn Gundersen, Vice President Neal Cupersmith, Treasurer Brigitte Daniel, Secretary Shira Beckerman Marilyn Birnhak Sara Garonzik Alice L. George Sally Lyn Katz Victor Keen Monika Krug Dale Penneys Levy James M. Meyer, CFA Kristen Phillips Donald Rosenblit, Chairman Emeritus Carol Saline Elliot Schwartz Bryna Silver Scott, Esq. James T. Smith, Esq. Harriet Weiss Alan Widra
Greenfield Teaching Artist Fellows
administrative staff Assistant to the Producing Artistic & Managing Directors Director of Development Development Associate Grant Writer Director of Marketing & Communications Marketing Manager Sales Director Patron Services Manager Box Office Manager Publicist Box Office Associates
Members Emeritus
Former board presidents
PTC INTERNS Samuel Chattin, Kizzy Cunningham, Katelin Del Rosario, A’laisha Evans, Sophie Hirsch, Rebecca Kaplan, Rebecca Khalil, Jarrett McCreary, Brad Ogden, Iraisa Ann Reilly, Ryan Schrader, Liam Velez
artistic/ programming staff Literary Manager and Dramaturg Director of Education Assistant Director of Education Education Coordinator Master Teaching Artists Teaching Artists
Joanne Harmelin Sheldon L. Thompson Bettyruth Walter, Ph.D. Tracey Weiss, Ph.D. Kenneth Kaiserman Robert Greenfield Thomas M.S. Wheelock Lewis C. Ross Carole Phillips John Friedman Donald Rosenblit William F. O’Donnell Monika Krug Cheryl Green Bernard A. Weidenaar Sheldon L. Thompson E. Gerald Riesenbach, Esq. Michael M. Coleman
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY STAFF LEADERSHIP Producing Artistic Director Sara Garonzik Managing Director Shira Beckerman
House Manager
Production staff Production & Facilities Manager Company Manager Crew Chief/Technical Coordinator Assistant Stage Manager Assistant to the Director Props Master Props Assistant Sound Supervisor Wardrobe Supervisor Dresser Lighting Supervisor Lighting Programmer Flyman Deck Crew ELAC Intern
Carrie Chapter Maureen Sweeney Will Dennis Rashanda Freeman Krista Apple, Jan Michener, David O’Connor Heather Cole, Donja Love, Kathryn Moroney Brandi Burgess Christina Binder, Justine Brannon, Adriana Lopez, David Perschica, Jessica Wallace Sharon Kling Christine Mickletz Jessie Pasquariello Michelle Hitz Amy Lebo Rose Schnall Carol Flannery Meg Morris Sarah Blask Deborah Fleischman Lesley Berkowitz Soneyet Muhammad Chelsea Sanz Eric Thomas Ron Hunter
Roy W. Backes Bridget A. Cook Michael L. Cristaldi Meredith Sonnen Mark Kennedy Melissa Cristaldi Little John Bryant Daniel A. Little Maxine Johnson Janet Connors Alyssandra Docherty Matthew F. Lewandowski II Stuart Bartlett Josue Carazo Jacob Lyon Goddard Joe Flores
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Summer Camp 2013 ONE WEEK OPTIONS
TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE
Come for one week, or come for both. Spend each day warming up with theater games, cycling through classes in acting, directing, playwriting and design, and afternoons working with your ensemble to solve that weeks’ performance challenge. Perform the work you’ve written, staged and designed each week at our Friday Theater Lab.
A more focused experience for teens with some theatrical background who are interested in the fun and challenge of creating a full one-act play through an ensemble process. Camp culminates in a ‘world-premiere’ of the students’ work on our stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre.
Week One: July 15-19 Week Two: July 22-26
July 29- August 9 Two week intensive: $685
One week: $325 | Both weeks: $600
For more information or to register, visit: PhiladelphiaTheatreCompany.org/Camp
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