Twenty-seven plays, hot off their last performances at the New York International Fringe Festival, are ready to be discovered by the rest of the world. Martin Denton, founder and editor of Indie Theater now, with the help of the dedicated team of nytheatre.com reviewers, has curated a grouping of 27 new dramatic works that represent the diversity, vibrancy, invention, energy, and fun that characterized this year's FringeNYC.
Twenty-seven plays, hot off their last performances at the New York International Fringe Festival, are ready to be discovered by the rest of the world. Martin Denton, founder and editor of Indie Theater now, with the help of the dedicated team of nytheatre.com reviewers, has curated a grouping of 27 new dramatic works that represent the diversity, vibrancy, invention, energy, and fun that characterized this year's FringeNYC.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), the Off-Broadway company known for its productions that integrate able-bodied actors with artists with disabilities, presents William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street) through tonight, May 13. Ike Schambelan, TBTB artistic director and founder, directs.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), the Off-Broadway company known for its productions that integrate able-bodied actors with artists with disabilities, presents William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street), with previews set to begin Saturday, April 14, prior to an official press opening April 22. Ike Schambelan, TBTB artistic director and founder, directs.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), the Off-Broadway company known for its productions that integrate able-bodied actors with artists with disabilities, presents William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street), with previews set to begin April 14, prior to an official press opening April 22. Ike Schambelan, TBTB artistic director and founder, directs.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers presents SOME OF OUR PARTS Seven ten-minute plays about disabilities - and the people affected by them. World-premiere short plays by Neil LaBute, Kate Moira Ryan, Samuel D. Hunter, Diana Son, Bekah Brunstetter, Jeff Tabnick and Emily Chadick Weiss.
A Nervous Smile is the final, most powerful play by John Belluso, a wonderful playwright with a disability who passed away tragically more than two years ago, on the cusp of a promising career. In the play, the wealthy parents of a girl severely disabled with cerebral palsy are strained to the breaking point by the burden of caring for their daughter.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers will present the New York Premiere of John Belluso's, A Nervous Smile, on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8PM at the Kirk Theatre, Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd St. The official opening will be on Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 8PM. Ike Schambelan directs.
A Nervous Smile is the final, most powerful play by John Belluso, a wonderful playwright with a disability who passed away tragically more than two years ago, on the cusp of a promising career. In the play, the wealthy parents of a girl severely disabled with cerebral palsy are strained to the breaking point by the burden of caring for their daughter.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers will present the New York Premiere of John Belluso's, A Nervous Smile, on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8PM at the Kirk Theatre, Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd St. The official opening will be on Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 8PM. Ike Schambelan directs.
