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Patron Enrichment Programming

Add a little PEP (Patron Enrichment Programming) to your PTC experience! Please join us for the following events before/after your performance:

STAGES Reading Series
Free public stage readings of new plays in-development at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. [More]
Pay-What-You-Can
We will continue our Pay-What-You-Can Program for certain productions. Watch this space for details.
Meet-the-Artist Talk Backs
Join us for a FREE post-show discussion with artists from the show.

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
March 25, March 30, April 8

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
May 27, June 1, June 10
American Playwrights in Context (APIC)
Join us for a FREE in-depth post-show discussion with the playwright and/or creators of the production.

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
March 28
Featuring Lou Dubose (co-author with Molly Ivins of Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and four-time Pulitizer Prize nominated journalist Margaret Engel, playwrights of Red Hot Patriot. Lou Dubose has covered Texas politics for twenty-five years. He is the co-author with Molly Ivins of two New York Times bestsellers, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America. In 2003 he wrote (with Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid) The Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress (released in paperback as The Hammer Comes Down: The Nasty, Brutish and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay). He has also written a political biography of Karl Rove.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
June 6
Special Topics
A FREE pre-show discussion of contemporary relevance of each play in the mezzanine lobby of the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Concession stand opens at 7pm.

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
March 27

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
May 29
Theatre Club
Join us in the mezzanine lobby after the matinee performance for a FREE post-show roundtable with fellow audience members moderated by the Education Department!

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
April 7

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
June 9
Book Club
Join us in the lobby for a FREE pre-show discussion of a book that relates to the theme of the piece or written by the artists involved in the piece.

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
March 25 at 6:30pm
We will be discussing the just-released biography Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith, which is available online at Amazon.com and at local bookstores. This enthralling biography offers unique insights into Ivins' life, and includes material from her unpublished papers and never-before-released interviews. A must-read for anyone seeing Red Hot Patriot.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
May 27 at 6:30pm
We will be reading the play The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, which is available online at Amazon.com and at local bookstores.

All Patron Enrichment Programming events take place at PTC's Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia. [Directions]

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