Pig Iron Theatre Company's Barrymore Award-winning production FRANKLIN'S KEY returns to Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia, following teenage siblings who uncover Franklin's hidden weather-controlling technology beneath the city.
Dito van Reigersberg, co-founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of Pig Iron Theatre Company and the performer behind drag persona Martha Graham Cracker, has died at 53 following complications from a bone marrow transplant.
Pig Iron Theatre Company will present FRANKLIN’S KEY in Philadelphia. The immersive sci-fi production will run June 11 through June 28. The show blends history, science, and adventure.
Pig Iron Theatre Company will present the Barrymore Award-winning sci-fi adventure FRANKLIN'S KEY at Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia from June 11 to June 28. The production, set in an alternate universe, reimagines Benjamin Franklin's legacy and coincides with America's 250th celebrations.
Pig Iron Theatre Company will remount its Barrymore Award-winning sci-fi adventure FRANKLIN’S KEY June 11–28, 2026 at Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia.
Pig Iron Theatre Company has revealed its 2026 Season. The 30th Anniversary Season spans venues across Greater Philadelphia, highlighting collaborations with award-winning musicians, Barrymore-recognized artists, and visionary designers.
Pig Iron Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Franklin’s Key, written by Dan Rothenberg and Robert Quillen Camp. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Philadelphia-based physical theater company Pig Iron Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Franklin’s Key, written by Dan Rothenberg and Robert Quillen Camp.
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning Philadelphia based physical theater company Pig Iron Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Franklin's Key, written by Dan Rothenberg and Robert Quillen Camp.
Theater J closes new Artistic Director Hayley Finn’s first season on an enchanting high note. 'The Hatmaker’s Wife' is an emotional, charming, and thoughtful story about love in all its complexities.
Discover the enchanting blend of magic and realism in Theater J's season finale, THE HATMAKER'S WIFE, written by acclaimed playwright Lauren Yee and starring Ashley Nguyen. Opening June 5th.
Theater J has announced its 2023-2024 season, the first season planned by the theater’s new Artistic Director, Hayley Finn. Featuring world premiere productions, the debut of a solo play series, and an abundance of new works by emerging writers within the American theater landscape, this season builds on Theater J’s legacy as a home for exceptional new work within Washington, DC and throughout the country.
Last week, at a time when Broadway producers were worried about last-minute campaigning and how performers are going to change at the United Palace with limited dressing room space, a fact buried in a New York Times article shook the theater community. It was there that it was announced that The Public’s Under the Radar festival was no more.
The previously announced adaptation of TEG+’s Harold and the Purple Crayon has found its book writers in Dan Rothenberg (co-artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company) and Robert Quillen Camp (White on White).
Pig Iron Theatre Company is joining forces with visionary writer and filmmaker Josephine Decker (Shirley, Madeline’s Madeline) for the premiere of The Path of Pins or the Path of Needles, a dark fairy tale about the terrors, joys, and deep uncertainties of pregnancy.
Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia's acclaimed creators of interdisciplinary performance, and Swarthmore College will co-present 10 performances of Love Unpunished, a hypnotic dance-theater piece about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center, as part of the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts.
A brisk, hilarious adaptation for ten actors that invites the audience into a vibrant world of music, mischief, mistaken identity, dizzying romance and fierce passion. When a group of war heroes are invited to enjoy peacetime on Don Leonato's beautiful estate, they find their friendships greatly tested by a formidable new adversary: Love.
Pig Iron, Philadelphia's acclaimed creators of unpredictable performances, and founders of the University of the Arts/Pig Iron School M.F.A. program in Devised Performance, welcomes Laurie Ortega-Murphy as the company's new Managing Director beginning February 8, 2021.
We spoke with Pig Iron Theatre co-founder and co-artistic director Dan Rothenberg about bringing Toshiki Okada's Zero Cost House to the screen, how Pig Iron is developing theatre in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, what the future holds for Pig Iron and more!
Sometimes you just have to let a play wash over you. Not try to ride the waves and steer your way through. Just let whatever happen. Zero Cost House is one such experience. The oceanic volume of big picture themes and insightfully sharp details cannot be controlled by the viewer. Toshiki Okada's play does not let you be in control.
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