Grantee tags Prohibition

Speakeasy (2014)

Reading Theater Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Speakeasy is a play about Reading, Pennsylvania, during prohibition, from 1920-1933. It was written by Sue Lange and composed by Chris Heslop. The play took place in a speakeasy, a microcosm of the changes Reading and the whole country faced. Read More

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Sister Company/Kris Lundberg

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

This all-female production is set in the roaring 1920s of Chicago amid gang rivalries and power struggles between the Italian and Irish within the underworld culture exploring the violent nature of gangsters and a women’s right to rise up in society. Read More