The Bootstrap Theater Foundation
Current Productions
HANGING GEORGIA
A new play with music about Georgia O’Keeffe
Developed by the BootStrap collaborative team that brought you Tell It Slant!
Play by Sharmon J. Hilfinger, Music by Joan McMillen
Directed by Jake Margolin
"HANGING GEORGIA roils and explodes across the stage like a Texas lightning storm." San Jose Mercury News
View a gallery of photos from the premiére production
ANNOUNCING A SECOND CO-PRODUCTION OF THIS DAZZLING PLAY
AT THE PEAR AVENUE THEATRE IN MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA
When: May 23 - June 9, 2013
Preview Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:00pm
Opening Friday, May 24, 2013 at 8:00pm with Gala Reception
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.
NO SHOW SATURDAY, MAY 25
Sundays at 2 p.m.
Sundays, May 26 & June 2 Includes Talk Back with Author, Composer and Actors
EXTRA MATINEE: JUNE 1 AT 2 PM
Sunday, June 9 Closing Show
Where :
Pear Avenue Theatre
1220 Pear Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043
Tickets:
Opening Night Gala: $30 General $25 Students-Seniors $20
Online: http://www.thepear.org/tickets.htm
Pear Box Office: (650) 254-1148
Hanging Georgia, written by Sharmon J. Hilfinger, tells the story of O’Keeffe’s love relationship and marriage with the famous photographer and art dealer, Alfred Stieglitz. At the center of the American Modern Art movement, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz live a life of passion and drama in a Bloomsbury-like environment of artists and writers. O’Keeffe’s rise to fame is astounding. How does a woman in the early 1900’s command the highest prices on the American art market and maintain her artistic independence? For O’Keeffe it is a rags to riches story, for Stieglitz, it is Pygmalion. Sparks fly when two such towering artists live and work together.
BootStrap Mission
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BootStrap Theater Foundation was founded in 1998 with a mission to help theater artists bootstrap their way to visibility. We focus on professional productions of original plays by San Francisco Bay Area playwrights. We work with playwrights, offering both dramaturgical and production support to bring previously unproduced scripts to fruition. As a nomad theater company, we have developed, produced independently or co-produced nine world premieres.