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AN oak tree will be planted on the Penrith showfield to mark a milestone 50th anniversary.
AN oak tree will be planted on the Penrith showfield to mark a milestone 50th anniversary.
Wild Swan Theater’s co-founders and artistic directors Hillary Cohen and Sandy Ryder created a family theater program their way. For more than 40 years,
Wild Swan theater disbands The Ann Arbor-based company offered children’s and family theater programs since 1980. “After more than four decades of joyful, exuberant, sometimes zany, sometimes poignant, always heartfelt theater making, it is time to say our goodbyes,” announced the organization Monday. “We started Wild Swan with nothing but an idea of a kind of theater that could possibly exist, accessible and affordable for everyone.” Through the years, more than 1 million attending Wild Swan shows and 100,000 took its workshops. “When we started, people asked how long will you d...
Listen to the full story. The theater was launched in 1980 and has been led by its co-founders, Hilary Cohen and Sandy Ryder, for the past 41 years. Cohen says they both felt it was time to stop, but this won't be the end of the theater. “We expect to continue in a different kind of way for the foreseeable future, and we aren’t too worried about what that date will be. But we won't be producing any new work. We won't be touring anymore,” Cohen says. Cohen says they’ll instead be focusing on finding new ways to share their extensive archive of existing material.