The Prince Music Theater
There's a new home and a new name for the American Music Theater Festival
- it's now The Prince Music Theater.
The fifteen-year-old company opened its first permanent home this spring
at 1412 Chestnut Street just off the Avenue of the Arts. The company's
theater is named for acclaimed director-producer and AMTF Board Member
Harold Prince, whose lifetime of innovative musical theater productions
have made him world renowned.
The new 450-seat proscenium theater features state-of-the-art theater
technology, full fly loft, film-screen, black box theater, cabaret, cafe
as well as rehearsal and audio/video recording facilities. The Prince
Music Theater is also the home to the UpStages Ticket Office, the Prince
Music Theater Rainbow Company, the First Union Institute for Arts Education
and the Sharon Pinkenson Film Project. In addition to Prince Music Theater
productions, the facility will be utilized by numerous arts and entertainment
companies including The Curtis Opera, The Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,
the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema and Philadanco.
The Prince Music Theater has produced over 90 works of musical theater,
more than 50 of them have been world or American premieres. More than
40 Prince Music Theater productions have gone on to open in New York and/or
tour nationally and internationally. 16 productions have been recorded
as cast albums. Prince Music Theater works have garnered 10 Barrymore
Awards including "Best Musical," the Lucille Lortel Award, 2
Obie Awards, 1 Drama Desk Award and also received a Grammy nomination.
For more information about the new Prince Music Theater, visit http://www.princemusictheater.org or call (215) 972-1000. |
