Shadow Box Theatre awarded $20,000 NEA Grant

THE SHADOW BOX THEATRE, SANDRA ROBBINS, Founding Artistic Director, is pleased to announce the company has been awarded at $20,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to support performances of shadow puppet musicals for family audiences. Productions include THE AFRICAN DRUM, three traditional African folk tales told through drumming, storytelling, song, and dance, and LITTLE IS BIG, an undersea adventure that teaches courage, tolerance, and the meaning of friendship.

LITTLE IS BIG, currently in performance at 45 Bleecker Street, has remaining showtimes Sunday May 2nd at 11 am, Tuesday, May 4th at 10:30 am, Wednesday, May 5th at 10:30 am, Thursday, May 6th (SOLD OUT) and Friday May 7th at 10:30 am.

The Company finishes up its Spring season with PLAY IS SAFE, a delightful hand puppet show for our young audiences. Chicken Little has just moved to the Big City and thinks the sky is falling! But her wise new friends, Goosey Lucy, Ducky Lucky, and the grown-up puppeteers, help her learn that safety and common sense will get her through almost all new situations. Children will sing and move along with the performers as they learn to travel "With a Buddy" and always "Know the Rules." The Production runs Mondays through Fridays at 10:30 am May 17th through May 28th.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For reservations and information call Shadow Box Theatre (www.shadowboxtheatre.org) at 212-724-0677 or visit www.iseats.net to purchase tickets directly. 45 BLEECKER STREET THEATER is located at 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street.

With the magic of interactive live theatre, music and puppetry SHADOW BOX THEATRE has served over 2,000,000 children in over 40 years in schools, theatres, community centers and parks. SHADOW BOX THEATRE also conducts in-school storytelling performances and creative arts workshops for students and teachers throughout the city. THEATRE's publishing arm, See-More's Workshop, produces storybooks, CDs and DVD's based! on its shows. Since its inception in 1967, SBT's mission has been to creatively touch the hearts and minds of our children through the inspirational power of the theatre arts,. Our goal is to inspire and mobilize their imaginative abilities both personally and collectively. Our vision is to offer them creative tools so that they will be better prepared to live in a complex world.

The Shadow Box Theatre is a non-profit theatre and is funded in part by: A.R.T./New York; Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; Brooklyn City Council Member, Letitia James; Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC); The Gilder Foundation; The JPMorgan Chase Regrant Fund, in tandem with the Booth Ferris Foundation, a project of A.R.T./New York; Materials for the Arts (NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs/NYC Dept. of Sanitation/NYC Bd. of Ed.); NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; NYS Council on the Arts, a state agency; NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation; NYS Legislature/ Senator Velmanette Montgomery; The Doris & Peter Rosenblum Memorial Fund; and individual donors.

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