The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Events
Grantee Performance: CHICKEN
In Charlotte Ford’s expressionistic clown play, three government workers aboard a submarine create absurd plots of revenge leading to each other’s destruction. September 3-6.
Grantee Performance: FREEDOM CLUB
New Paradise Laboratories presents FREEDOM CLUB, in which a fierce tension animates the American frontier: the struggle between the freedom of the individual and the question of who or what belongs in the club. September 1-11.
Grantee Performance:¡El Conquistador!
Thaddeus Phillips presents a fusion of live theater and film in his comedic solo show about a Latin American coffee farmer who dreams of soap opera stardom while employed as a doorman in a Bogotá high-rise. September 8-11.
Grantee Performance: The Sun Also Rises (The Select)
Co-commissioned by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, New York ensemble Elevator Repair Service brings Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises to the stage for its American premiere using only the words of the novel to create a full theatrical production. September 15-18.
