Bearded Ladies Cabaret Revolution
Bearded Ladies Cabaret
- Date Awarded
- 04/01/12
- Amount
- $30,000
- Grant Period
- 04/01/12 to 05/31/14
- Focus Area
- Fostering the Arts
- Community
- Philadelphia
- Initiative
- Knight Arts Challenge
Grantee Contact
- John T. Jarboe
- Philadelphia, PA
- www.beardedladiescabaret.com
Featured Media
To attract new audiences to theater and use the medium as a way to explore politics, gender, sexuality and identity through a series of original, late-night cabarets
Summary: To attract new audiences to theater, The Bearded Ladies will create a series of original and immersive late-night cabarets at The Wilma Theater. These shows will use the spectacle, intimacy and informality inherent to the cabaret form to tackle questions of politics, gender, sexuality and identity. Because topical, artistically ambitious cabaret is rarely produced in Philadelphia, this series aims to attract new audiences to Broad Street’s Avenue of the Arts.