Enhance Your Experience
The Annenberg Center offers many exciting pre- and post-performance events to learn from artists and Penn professors, chat with fellow arts lovers and experience the arts firsthand. We hope you will join us!
Jane Monheit
Pre-Concert Chat with Maureen Malloy
September 19, 2009 @ 7:15 PM
Join Maureen Malloy, WRTI’s Jazz music director and host, as she sits down with Jane Monheit during a special pre-concert chat beginning at 7:15 PM at the Annenberg Center. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Thank You Gregory
Pre-Performance Talk with Tony Waag
October 8, 2009
Join Tony Waag, Artistic/Executive Director of the American Tap Dance Foundation and the Producer and Director of Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival for a pre-performance chat at the Annenberg Center. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Thank You Gregory
Post-Performance Chat with the Thank You Gregory Cast
October 9, 2009
Join the cast of Thank You Gregory for a post-performance chat. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Thank You Gregory
Pre-Performance Talk and Post-Show Book Signing with Jane Goldberg
October 10, 2009
Join Jane Goldberg, author of Shoot Me While I'm Happy: Memories From The Tap Goddess Of The Lower East Side, for a pre-performance talk and a post-show book signing. This event is open to all ticket holders and will occur before and after both the 2 PM and 8 PM performances.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Love, Poems, Masques, and Pageants: An Exploration of Love’s Labour’s Lost
October 27, 2009 @ 6:45 PM
Join Dr. Cary Mazer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and English at Penn, for a pre-performance chat entitled 'Love, Poems, Masques, and Pageants: A Exploration of Love’s Labour’s Lost'. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Sex, Lies, and Rock & Roll: A Few Thoughts on Love's Labour's Lost
October 28, 2009 @ 6:45 PM
Join Dr. Peter Conn, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at Penn, for a pre-performance chat. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Too Long for a Play: The Limits of Comedy in Love’s Labour’s Lost
October 29, 2009 @ 6:45 PM
Join Dr. Melissa Sanchez, Assistant Professor of English at Penn, for a pre-performance chat entitled 'Too long for a play: The Limits of Comedy in Love’s Labour’s Lost'. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Discussion forum with Dominic Dromgoole
October 30, 2009, 12 PM - 1 PM
Join Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in a discussion forum led by Dr. James Schlatter of Penn’s Theatre Department.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Post-performance talk back with the cast
October 30, 2009
Join the cast of Love's Labour's Lost for a discussion after the performance led by Dr. Marcia Ferguson of Penn’s Theatre Department. This event is open to all ticket holders.
A Creole Christmas
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Pre-performance chat with Maureen Malloy
December 12, 2009
Join WRTI’s Jazz Music Director and Host Maureen Malloy as she sits down with Preservation Hall Jazz Band Creative Director and Tuba player Ben Jaffe during a special pre-concert chat beginning at 7:15 PM at the Annenberg Center. This event is open to all ticket holders.
American Composers Orchestra
Conversations
Pre-concert chat with Robert Beaser
January 30, 2010
Join American Composers Orchestra Artistic Director Robert Beaser as he sits down with Paquito D’Rivera, Sebastian Currier, Pawel Wojtasik and Roger Zare during a special pre-concert chat beginning at 7:00 PM at the Annenberg Center in the Harold Prince Theatre. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Soweto Gospel Choir
Pre-concert chat with members of Soweto Gospel Choir
January 30, 2010
Join Carol Muller, Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, for a pre-show chat at 7:00 PM with members of the Soweto Gospel Choir. This event is open to all ticket holders.
Habib Koité
Pre-performance chat and food tasting
March 14, 2010
Ignite all your senses! Join us for a pre-show chat with Habib Koité and sample the culinary traditions of Mali, prepared by Fanta Dembele of West Philadelphia. Pre-show activities begin at 5:30 and are free to all ticket holders. (Space is limited. Food available on a first-come, first-served basis.)
