5-592: Wilma Theater may refer to: Wilma Theater (Philadelphia) Wilma Theatre (Missoula, Montana) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wilma Theater . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilma_Theater&oldid=933252899 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
10-519: A variety of different theaters, in particular a 100-seat converted garage on Sansom Street, but opened their current 296-seat theater on S. Broad Street in 1996. Jiri Zizka left the theater at the end of the 2009–2010 season and died in January 2012. As of 2018 , the theater had won 68 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre and received 238 nominations. On May 22 2024, it was announced that
15-549: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wilma Theater (Philadelphia) The Wilma Theater is a non-profit theater company located at 265 S. Broad Street at the corner of Spruce Street in the Avenue of the Arts area of Center City, Philadelphia . The company's current 296-seat theater opened in 1996 and was designed by Hugh Hardy . The Wilma Theater began in 1973 as
20-495: The "Wilma Project", founded to produce original material and to develop community-oriented artists. The name "Wilma" refers to an imaginary oppressed sister of Shakespeare created by Virginia Woolf . Blanka Zizka and Jiri Zizka from Czechoslovakia joined the project in 1979 as artists-in-residence, and later took over artistic leadership, changing the name to the Wilma Theater. The company staged their productions at
25-568: The Wilma would be the recipient of the 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award , which comes with a $ 25,000 grant. One of the objects of the award is promoting what often amounts to the incubators of new productions. The Wilma has been noted for this, due in part to its unique organizational structure: it switched from one artistic director, which is standard, to four in early 2020, and then down to three when Blanka Zizka retired in 2021 (leaving James Ijames , Yury Urnov , and Morgan Green ), and it also has
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