Theatre Access Project Announces Upcoming Captioned and Sign Language Interpreted Performances
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 06, 2005
Theatre Access
Project (TAP), Theatre Development Fund's invitation to the
performing arts for people with physical disabilities announces its upcoming schedule of open captioning and
sign language interpreted performances for theatregoers with hearing
loss. The
following is
a list of upcoming open captioned and sign language interpreted
performances:
AVENUE
Q (Golden Theatre)
Monday,
October 24 at 8
PM - open
captioned
CHITTY
CHITTY BANG BANG (Hilton
Theatre)
Wednesday, November 2 at
2 PM - open captioned & sign
language interpreted
Wednesday, November 9 at
2 PM - open captioned & sign
language interpreted
Wednesday, December 7 at
2 PM - open captioned & sign
language interpreted
Wednesday, December 14 at
2 PM - open captioned & sign
language interpreted
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR (Absurd Person Singular)
Saturday, November 19 at
2 PM - open captioned
IN MY
LIFE (Music Box Theatre)
Tuesday,
November 22 at 8
PM - open
captioned
SEASCAPE (Booth Theatre)
Tuesday,
November 29 at 8
PM - open
captioned
RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR (Radio City Music Hall)
Wednesday, December 7 at
8 PM - open captioned
SOUVENIR (Lyceum Theatre)
Tuesday,
December 13 at 8
PM - open
captioned
THE
WOMAN IN WHITE (Marquis
Theatre)
Wednesday, January 11 at
8 PM - sign language
interpreted
Thursday, January 12 at 8 PM - open captioned
Through TDF's Theatre Access Project, special
discount tickets in the orchestra are set aside monthly for theatregoers who are
deaf or hard of hearing, partially sighted, blind, require aisle seating for
medical reasons, use wheelchairs or cannot climb stairs.
Theatregoers with
disabilities may join TAP's mailing list
which includes ticket offers to open captioned and sign language interpreted
performances, where the seat locations are in view of either the open caption
box or sign language interpreters. There is no fee to join . For more
information, and to join TAP's mailing list: contact TAP directly: email:
tap@tdf.org; call 212.221.1103 , TTY 212.719-4537; or download an
application at TDF's Web site: www.tdf.org/tap
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