Philadelphia Theatre Company
The Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) is a theater company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1974 as The Philadelphia Company by Robert Hedley and Jean Harrison.[1] Since October 2007, PTC's home has been the new Suzanne Roberts Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts. This move concluded its 25-year residence at the historic Plays and Players Theatre.[2][3]
History
In 2017, Paige Price assumed the role of Producing Artistic Director and was joined 5 months later by new Managing Director Emily Zeck. The team had worked together previously at Theatre Aspen, a professional theatre in Aspen, Colorado, where they oversaw improvements in the financial and artistic health of the theatre, as well as completing a successful $2MM capital campaign for a new venue, the Hurst Theatre.
Recent Seasons
2012/2013 Season
- Stars of David (world premiere musical) original book by Abigail Pogrebin book by Charles Busch conceived by Aaron Harnick
- The Mountaintop (play) by Katori Hall
- Seminar (play) by Theresa Rebeck
- Venus In Fur (play) by David Ives
- Love, Loss, and What I Wore (play) by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron based on a book by Ilene Beckerman
2011/2012 Season
- Red by John Logan
- The Scottsboro Boys music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by David Thompson
- The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham
- reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute
2010/2011 Season
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn
- Race by David Mamet
- Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith
- Ruined by Lynn Nottage
- Colin Quinn: Long Story Short
2009/2010 Season
- Humor Abuse by Lorenzo Pisoni and Erica Schmidt
- The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel
- Golden Age by Terrence McNally
- Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
- The Second City 50th Anniversary Tour
2008/2009 Season
- Unusual 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 by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel & Michael Korie
- City of Nutterly Love: Funny as Bell! by Ed Furman, TJ Shanoff, and The Second City
2007/2008 Season
- Being Alive by Stephen Sondheim, Billy Porter & William Shakespeare
- M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
- Third by Wendy Wasserstein
- The Happiness Lecture by Bill Irwin
2006/2007 Season
- Murderers by Jeffrey Hatcher
- The Frog Bride by David Gonzalez
- Nerds://A Musical Software Satire (PTC world premiere musical) by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Erik Weiner & Hal Goldberg
- In The Continuum by Danai Gurira & Nikkole Salter
- Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton
References
Notes
- ↑ "Theatre Communications Group - Theatre Profiles - Philadelphia Theatre Company". Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ↑ Gavin, Karrie. "Philadelphia Theatre Company". Moon Philadelphia, 1st Edition. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- ↑ "Theatre Communications Group - Theatre Profiles - Philadelphia Theatre Company". Retrieved 6 July 2012.