September 2017
World premiere play ‘Runaway Home’
World premiere of Runaway Home — Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the unhealed wounds of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward continue to fester. In this powerful, funny and deeply moving mother-daughter story, 14-year-old runaway Kali embarks on a journey to pick through the wreckage of what used to be her life, rhyming, stealing and scamming her way through the still-destroyed neighborhood. While the rest of the country's attention drifts, the community's residents are left to repair the damage from the inside out. As their…
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Chaim Potok’s ‘The Chosen’
WHAT: The Chosen — A silent father, an ancient tradition and an unexpectedly important game of baseball forge bonds of lifelong friendship between two Jewish boys from “five blocks and a world apart” in this funny, poignant, timely and timeless father-son story about recognition and acceptance of “the other.” WHO: • Adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok • Based on the novel by Chaim Potok • Directed by Simon Levy • Starring Jonathan Arkin, Alan Blumenfeld, Dor Gvirtsman, Sam Mandel • Produced by Stephen Sachs and Deborah Lawlor • Presented…
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Arrival & Departure
World premiere of Arrival & Departure — In this modern-day, re-imagined stage adaptation of the classic 1945 British film Brief Encounter, a Deaf man and a hard-of-hearing woman, two married strangers, meet accidentally in a New York City subway station. As their casual friendship develops into something deeper, each is forced to confront how their simmering relationship could forever change their lives — and the lives of those they love. The play is performed simultaneously in spoken English and American Sign Language with additional use…
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