Pathfinder Theatre remembers 9/11 with inaugural production

A few months after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Flea Theater in New York premiered The Guys, a play by Columbia University professor Anne Nelson, starring Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray.

This September, Pathfinder Theatre, a new theatre company committed to “telling stories that matter,” will present a staged reading of The Guys as its inaugural production. Performances will be held at the Greensboro School of Creativity on September 9 and 10 at 7 p.m.

Pathfinder Theatre began as a creative vision for artistic director Katrina Breitenbach, who drew up plans for the theatre company in January 2003. Those plans remained locked away in a computer file for nearly six years, until a conversation with another theatre enthusiast in December 2008 reawakened the dream and fanned this small ember of an idea back to life.

The vision of Pathfinder Theatre is to help people discover, develop, embrace, and celebrate their creativity and their unique selves as individuals and in community.

To that end, Pathfinder Theatre offers the opportunity for theatre patrons to give back to the community by bringing in donations in exchange for discounts on tickets:

• Bring food items for the food bank and receive $1 off your ticket for each item, up to half the price of your ticket.
• Bring an item of laundered, gently used clothing (no socks, no undergarments) and receive $1 off your ticket for each item, up to half the price of your ticket.
• Bring an item of school supplies (new, unopened) and receive $1 off your ticket for each item, up to half the price of your ticket.
• Bring a bag of dry cat food or dry dog food and receive a 50 percent discount on your ticket.

Food and clothing will be donated to the Greensboro Urban Ministry, school supplies to the Teacher Supply Warehouse, and pet food to the SPCA and the Humane Society.