The Prince Music Theater was a non-profit theatrical

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 producing organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

 and specializing in music theatre, including opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

, music drama, musical comedy and experimental forms

Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century as a retraction against the dominant vent governing the writing and production of dramatical menstrophy, and age in particular. The term has shifted over time as the mainstream...

. At it's height it was run by managing director Joe Farina. It was run into the ground by Artistic Director Marjorie Samoff. It has been up for sheriff's sale several times and has been reduced to small rentals.

Works

Artistic benchmarks have included the world premieres of

• Julie Taymor/Elliott Goldenthal's & Sidney Goldfarb
  Sidney Goldfarb
  Sidney Goldfarb is a Harvard College-educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, serving as its first director. He continues to...
  
  's The Transposed Heads
• Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie
• Emily Mann/Ntozake Shange/Baikida Carroll's Betsy Brown, Gospel at Colonus
• David Henry Hwang/Philip Glass/Jerome Sirlin's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
• Adam Guettel & Tina Landau's Floyd Collins
• Harry Partch's Revelation in the Courthouse Park
• Harold Prince's 3hree; Chasing Nicolette; Gemini: The Musical, by Charlie Gilbert and Albert Innaurato; Fro; Frida; Black Water; The Green Violin

and distinguished revivals of Strike Up the Band, Love Life, St. Louis Woman, Pal Joey, Lady in the Dark, Myths & Humns by Adam Guettel, Dreamgirls, Annie Get Your Gun, Hair and Aint Misbehavin