A NOISE WITHIN's Rep Company Surpasses $10 Million Mark for New Venue

Last Sunday night, weeks ahead of groundbreaking for its new Pasadena theatre, A Noise Within (ANW), the critically acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, surpassed the $10 million mark in its capital campaign to raise $13.3 million for the new venue, it was announced by company Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott.

A Board Challenge - which matched every dollar donated between November 1, 2009, and February 28, 2010 - began four months ago with the campaign then at $9.3 million and concluded Sunday with more than $700,000 raised during that time, including $75,000 in the last ten days alone.

With a groundbreaking date to be announced shortly, the company will sink deep and lasting roots when it moves in 2011 from its long-time leased base in Glendale to its spectacular, permanent home in a mixed-use development at the corner of Foothill Boulevard and Sierra Madre Villa Avenue. The facility is designed to expand ANW's artistic possibilities, offer a greater scope of educational opportunities, meet ticket demand and allow the company to expand its role as a leader in the presentation and preservation of classical theatre. The company's long history of fiscal stability is reflected not only by its 18 years "in the black" but also by its ability -- in a challenging economic climate -- to raise more than $10 million to date toward its $13.3 million goal.

A Noise Within, hailed by critics as "adventurous," "compelling and current," "ingenuity at work," and "what great theatre is all about," was founded in 1992 and quickly established itself as one of the nation's leading theatre companies. It continues to maintain its celebrated status as the only year-round classical repertory company in Southern California, attracting fiercely loyal audiences and high praise from the media for its productions of great works of world drama and also as a leading regional force in arts education. Since its inception, the company has presented more than 120 plays from the classics of world literature, each season producing plays from authors ranging from Shakespeare and Molière to Ibsen, O'Neill and Shaw to Miller and Williams. The theatre's consistent dedication to quality has been rewarded with more than two-dozen Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards as well as numerous LA Weekly and Back Stage Garland awards.

Two of ANW's three spring productions open at the the company's current Glendale location this month: Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Michael Murray (March 6 - May 21), and Clifford Odets' AWAKE AND SING!, directed by Andrew J. Traister (March 20 - May 23).

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