Theatre Rhinoceros
For General Operating Support
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/20/2011
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Theatre Rhinoceros (the Rhino) is the oldest and longest running LGBT theater in the United States. Each year, the Rhino reaches 3,500 Bay Area residents with its four-show mainstage season, which includes reinterpretations of theater classics, revivals of rarely seen works, and newly written works. During the past grant period, the organization lost its performance space and was forced to reduce programming. Now an itinerant company, the Rhino is regrouping to determine its next steps.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.therhino.org
Address
4229 18th St, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for planning and building internal capacity for facility acquisition
Theatre Rhinoceros develops and produces theater that represents the diversity of LGBTQ+ communities. Theatre Rhinoceros produces LGBTQ+ stories that encourage and empower artists and audience members to fight for a more just and equitable world. In a typical year, the organization presents a season of fully staged plays, staged readings, and hybrid live and online performances for about 1,300 audience members each year at their 700 square foot studio theater in the Castro. This organizational effectiveness grant will support Theatre Rhinoceros in its efforts to secure a larger, permanent facility, and advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Theatre Rhinoceros develops and produces theater that represents the diversity of LGBTQ+ communities. Theatre Rhinoceros produces LGBTQ+ stories that encourage and empower artists and audience members to fight for a more just and equitable world. In a typical year, the organization presents a season of fully staged plays, staged readings, and hybrid live and online performances for over 5,000 audience members. Support of Theatre Rhinoceros aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Theatre Rhinoceros is the longest-running LGBTQ theater in the United States and strives to represent the diversity of LGBTQ communities. For more than 5,000 audience members each year, Theatre Rhinoceros presents works that highlight the resilience, defiance, and wit of LGBTQ artists and communities in the face of historic and current marginalization. The organization presents a season of six fully staged plays, including an outdoor production at the Yerba Buena Gardens, along with staged readings and pop-up performances.
