Evolve Elder Outreach

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble has always provided access for low income seniors through our free and subsidized ticket outreach to Senior Centers.

Evolve Theatre is a project that creates a space for elders to create art, tell stories, share wisdom, have fun, and experience the transformative power of theatre

In our modern, institutionalized culture, we are often segregated by age. Yet now, more than ever, we can all benefit from our shared stories about how to live, how to grow, how to age gracefully. Evolve Theatre Project offers a space for elders and audiences to connect and to explore these questions through the powerful medium of theatre. Through movement, music, improv, scene-work, and storytelling, Evolve ensembles create compelling and entertaining plays that express the glorious struggles of our own evolution.

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s Evolve program was piloted at University Settlement House in New York City as an intergenerational program. Meerkat Media’s award-winning documentary, Stages, follows the 20 week process of theatre sessions with Phoenix teaching artists, elders and youth, culminating in a performance at an Off-Broadway theatre in Manhattan