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Northbound at Theater for the New City

Dates: 2/9/2017 - 2/26/2017

📍 Theatre:
Theater for the New City

FFP
155 First Avenue
New York City, NY 10003

Phone: (212) 254-1109

Tickets: $!8/ $15 srs. students


This play mixes historic figures such as Lincoln, John Brown, Frederick Douglass and slavery advocate Stephen A. Douglas in their own words with the fictional story of two slaves seeking freedom in 1859 by heading north. A cast of around 20 actors bring this full-length play, written and directed by Marvalee Peart, to life. Watch some of our nation's greatest speeches woven into a powerful story in which we see action, romance. cruelty, courage and the debate and reality of slavery just before the war that ended it with emancipation.

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Theater for the New City

155 First Avenue
New York City, NY 10003

Phone: (212) 254-1109

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