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Wednesday, 07 December 2011 11:50

Written by Diana Nelson Jones

There was no "Hothouse" this August; something completely different instead:

The Sprout Fund switched gears this year to celebrate a decade of projects it has supported in a one-night extravanagza that “will showcase artists who define the daring, the diverse, and the delightful in Pittsburgh’s performing arts scene... the best Sprout-supported performing arts groups and individuals.”

The event is Friday at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown.

Doors open at 7p; curtain’s at 8p. Tickets are $125 each or $200 for a pair and include the pre-show reception and a post-show party from 10-11p featuring live music from the Turpentiners and complimentary food and drink catered by Parkhurst Dining Services.

You can buy tickets online here.

Performances will include:

+ Artist and poet Vanessa German’s original spoken-word operetta love poem for water; (That's Vanessa above, in a photo by Jae Roberto.)

+ barebones productions’ staging of a scene excerpted from the Tony Award-winning play “Take Me Out”

+ Bricolage’s enactment of “Down a Country Road,” a classic 1930s radio drama from their Midnight Radio series

+ A screening of “Mombies,” Gab Cody & Sam Turich’s comedic short about zombie parents in Lawrenceville

+ Hiawatha Project’s scene from “Camino,” a mythical story of immigration, detention, and identity

+ A reading from BRICKS for Young Adults, first-hand stories of young people living with cancer

+ Tom Sarver’s “Art Olympic Theater,” with surprise celebrity guests competing in a live puppet-making contest

+ A balletic scene from “Gravity+Grace,” Frank Ferraro’s opera inspired by early-onset Parkinson’s disease

+ HYBRID: Dance performs “Nomad,” a multimedia collaboration from Zafira Studios

+ The All Accordion Orchestra’s musical revue of originals and favorites

+ A love letter to Sprout from artist Alexi Morrissey

+ Original music composed and performed by David Bernabo & Barrett Black

+ Video shorts from ambulantic videoworks.

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