Philadelphia Theatre Company

The Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) is a theater company located Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1974 as The Philadelphia Company by Robert Hedley and Jean Harrison.^[1] Since October 2007, PTC's has been based out of the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts. Prior to that, PTC was housed at the historic Plays and Players Theatre for 25 years.^[2][3]

History

The Philadelphia Theatre Company was founded in 1974 by Robert Hedley and Jean Harrison. Soon thereafter, Sara Garonzik joined the company, eventually rising to the position of Producing Artistic Director. Joined in 1989 by General Manager Ada Coppock, Garonzik led the company to local and national prominence for her commitment to premiering new American plays. Together, Coppock and Garonzik built the Philadelphia Theatre Company into a commercial and artistic success, allowing them to eventually spearhead the building of a new home for the Philadelphia Theatre Company on the Avenue of the Arts, in the Suzanne Roberts Theatre.

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. David L. Cohen, senior executive vice president and chief diversity officer at Comcast NBCUniversal, assumed the role of chair in 2017, completing a full leadership transition for the company.

As of 2023, the Company is led by co-Artistic Directors Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky.^[4]

Recent seasons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2013/2014 season

• 4,000 Miles (play) written by Amy Herzog
• NERDS (play) book and lyrics by Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner music by Hal Goldberg
• Tribes (play) book by Nina Raine
• Vanya and Sasha and Masha and Spike (play) by Christopher Durang
• Unconstitutional (play/comedy) written and performed by Colin Quinn

2014/2015 season

• Detroit (play) written by Lisa D’Amour
• Outside Mullingar (play) book by John Patrick Shanley
• Mothers and Sons (play) by Terrence McNally
• brownsville song (b-side for tray) (play) by Kimber Lee
• Murder For Two (play) book and lyrics by Kellan Blair book and music by Joe Kinosian

2015/2016 season

• Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
• The McCarter Theatre/Arena Stage Production of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
• Exit Strategy by Ike Holter (co-produced with Primary Stages)
• Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason
• Hillary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath

2016/2017 season

• Rizzo (Theatre Exile Co-Production) by Bruce Graham
• Found book by Hunter Bell and Lee Overtree, music & lyrics by Eli Bolin
• Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Emily Mann
• Hand To God by Robert Askins
• The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey by Celeste Lecesne

2017/2018 season

• Wrestling Jerusalem Written and Performed by Aaron Davidman, Directed by Michael John Garcés
• Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl

2018/2019 season

• Sweat by Lynn Nottage
• The Bridges of Madison County by Marsha Norman (book) and Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics). Based on the novel by Robert James Waller.
• How to Catch Creation by Christina Anderson (Rolling World Premiere, Co-Production with Baltimore Center Stage)

2019/2020 season

• A Small Fire by Adam Bock
• Everything is Wonderful by Chelsea Marcantel
• The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe* (postponed until 2020-21)

2020/2021 season

• Days of Re-Creation: A Virtual Play by Masi Asare, AriDy Nox, Erlina Ortiz, SEVAN, Nandita Shenoy, BD Wong, and Lauren Yee
• It Can’t Happen Here (Audio Drama) adapted by Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

2021/2022 season

• The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle (Co-Production with City Theatre)
• Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
• Where We Belong by Madeline Sayet

2022/2023 season

• The Tattooed Lady by Erin Courtney and Max Vernon (A World Premiere Musical)
• Empathitrax by Ana Nogueira (A Philadelphia Premiere)
• Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by Lanie Robertson

2023/2024 season

• Macbeth In Stride by Whitney White, directed by Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky
• Cost Of Living by Martyna Majok, directed by Jeffrey L. Page
• Frankie & Johnny In The Clair De Lune by Terrence McNally
• The Duat by Roger Q. Mason, directed by Taibi Magar
• Little Amal

References

Notes

External links

• Official website