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"When we were conceptualizing the piece," Nottage says, we said, 'We want to build a space where everyone is invited to be together, including people who often are not invited into these spaces, and everyone can sit shoulder to shoulder … Five years ago, Lynn Nottage read a story profiling Reading, “Sweat” closes this week, but Lynn and her husband Tony Gerber still have. Sign up for exclusive discounts and save up to 50% on tickets! This Is Reading, an ambitious site-specific multimedia installation blending live performance and visual media, occupied the historic Franklin Street Railroad Station in Downtown Reading in May 2017, re-animating the long vacant building. In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Moved by its people’s plight for survival after industry and infrastructure failed them, Lynn traveled to this city in the middle of the Keystone state and began listening to their stories.

There is a minimum donation of $10. Adrienne D. Williams returns to direct. Using as it’s foundation the challenges, and triumphs of people living in and around Reading, Pa., This is Reading will weave their individual stories into one cohesive and celebratory compelling tale of the city.The project is inspired by the relationship Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage forged with the people of Reading while researching her critically-acclaimed Broadway-bound play SWEAT, directed by Kate Whoriskey.This Is Reading, una multimedia instalación dinámica y específico de Reading mezclando espectáculos en vivo y media visual, ocupará la estación histórica de tren en Franklin Street en el centro de Reading, reanimando la edificio vacantes durante mucho tiempo.

Render of "This is Reading" on the Reading Railroad Station. That achievement was remarkable in itself; Sweat is even more so. The reading reunites the cast of the 2016 Martha's Vineyard Playhouse production. Sus respuestas confidenciales tendrán impacto en la financiación y la representación de su comunidad.This Is Reading, a dynamic site-specific multimedia installation blending live performance and visual media, will occupy the historic Franklin Street Railroad Station in Downtown Reading, re-animating the long vacant building. Click Here to Shop for TheatreThe performer is remembered for starring roles in Broadway’s The new play by Stephen Beresford will be live streamed from the Old Vic stage. This is Reading will weave their individual stories into one cohesive and compelling tale of the city.

This site-specific multimedia installation blended live performance and visual media, occupying the Franklin Street Railroad Station in Downtown Reading in May 2017, re-animating the long vacant building.

LaGuardia High School. The reading will reunite the cast of the 2016 Martha's Vineyard Playhouse production. Sweat , set in a bar in a decaying, deindustrialising US town, won her a second in She is the only woman to have won the Pulitzer for drama twice, which puts her in the ranks alongside Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder and August Wilson. For more information click

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The Knox Mine disaster in marked the end of the coal industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and many of the major businesses shuttered. She is a professor of Playwriting at Columbia University.