The Pew Center For Arts & Heritage Announces 2010 Philadelphia Theatre Initiative Grant Recipients

New York, NY (Top40-Charts/ Pew Center for Arts & Heritage) 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.

Among the organizations funded: Arden Theatre Company will present its first commissioned work for children�s theater, The Flea and the Professor, adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen story by Guggenheim Fellow Jordan Harrison and composer Richard Gray. Both the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Theatre Exile will produce darkly comic plays by OBIE Award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh: The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, respectively. New Paradise Laboratories will experiment with Web and GPS technologies in Extremely Public Displays of Privacy, and the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe will feature the U.S. premiere of The Devil and Mister Punch, performed by the puppetry innovators of UK-based Improbable Theatre.

According to Fran Kumin, director of the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, �We are proud to support the artistry of outstanding theater professionals as they create and present work that promises to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences in our region.�

Please visit https://www.pcah.us/theatre and view the full text of this release as well as the list of organizations and artists that have received grants, plus information about this year�s peer-review panel.