What Phoenix Theatre does best! Phoenix Theatre’s Youth Performance Initiative provides multiple opportunities for youth to put their talents and newly developed performance skills to use. In addition, we provide professional theatre productions for families of all ages! Projects include:
OLIVER! opens at Greasepaint Youtheatre
The classic, family favorite comes singing and dancing across the Greasepaint Stage. Recommended for ages 5 and up. Click here for more information and to order your tickets online!
THE LARAMIE PROJECT auditions
Auditions for QSpeak Theatre’s production of The Laramie Project, in collaboration with Greasepaint Youtheatre, are Sunday, December 13 at 6pm.
The Laramie Project
by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project
"In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are all capable."
For more information about Tectonic Theater Project, please
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