Theatre in New York - Feb-March 2007
The following productions in New York City have disability subject matter, or include disabled performers. I am hoping to see everything and report, but………….. Please contact the theatre or company’s website for more info - I have provided everything I know.
1. Theater By The Blind
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Through February 25, 2007 Barrow Group Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, west of 8th Ave.
For more information, visit www.tbtb.org (Including access information)
Tickets – 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com give Smarttix the code “COMPAN” for $10 seats.
2. The following short play is being performed in a series of short plays. Contact theatre for info and schedules.
THE ROOSEVELT COUSINS, THOROUGHLY SAUCED by Michael Lew - A historical short about a young FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt at a polio clinic in Georgia. Drunk.
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Saturday 2/17 through 3/10
3. “Blind Lemon Blues” musical based on the life and music of the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson
February 15th - 25th, 2007
Blind Lemon Blues celebrates the legacy of Blind Lemon Jefferson and his profound influence upon the development of American popular music. Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar with a tin cup tied to its neck at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in Dallas, Texas until a Paramount Records scout discovered him. Between 1926 and 1929, Jefferson made more than 80 records and became the biggest selling-down-home blues singer in America. After seeing a workshop of Blind Lemon Blues, playwright August Wilson said, “I listened to the music of Blind Lemon everyday for five years. Blind Lemon Jefferson was the voice of Black America at that moment.”
York Theatre, 619 Lexington Avenue, New York City Box Office: (212) 935-5820Box Office: (212) 935-5820
Box Office: (212) 935-5820 4. THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE
By Peter Weiss
Classical Theatre of Harlem
February 2 – March 11, 2007
The HSA Theatre
647 St. Nicholas Ave. (141st Street)Tickets $36.Tickets $36.Group and Student prices available.For tickets visit www.Smarttix.com or call (212) 868-4444or call (212) 868-4444or call (212) 868-4444Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966, Peter Weiss’ MARAT/SADE is a theatrical tour de force that explores the concept of democracy and if it is possible given the realities and limitations of human nature. This seminal work of 20th century drama has not been given a major New York production in forty years, and is a perfect fit for the visually and intellectually ambitious production style of the Classical Theatre of Harlem.
or call (212) 868-4444Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966, Peter Weiss’ is a theatrical tour de force that explores the concept of democracy and if it is possible given the realities and limitations of human nature. This seminal work of 20th century drama has not been given a major New York production in forty years, and is a perfect fit for the visually and intellectually ambitious production style of the Classical Theatre of Harlem.
or call (212) 868-4444Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966, Peter Weiss’ is a theatrical tour de force that explores the concept of democracy and if it is possible given the realities and limitations of human nature. This seminal work of 20th century drama has not been given a major New York production in forty years, and is a perfect fit for the visually and intellectually ambitious production style of the Classical Theatre of Harlem.
