Meet the Theatre
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WATCH: Meet Theater Breaking Through Barriers
Meet Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), an Off-Broadway company dedicated to advancing artists with disabilities. Founded in 1979 as Theater by the Blind, TBTB changed its name and expanded its focus in 2008 to include artists with any type of disability. With diverse casts tackling a wide range of shows, the company shatters misconceptions about what performers with disabilities are capabl
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WATCH: Meet TADA! Youth Theater
Meet TADA! Youth Theater , a Drama Desk Award-winning nonprofit youth theatre company that produces original musicals for families starring talented local kids ages 8 to 18. Founded in 1984, TADA! provides young people from different backgrounds with musical theatre opportunities, including classes, camps and three mainstage shows every season featuring the troupe’s Resident Youth Ensemble.
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WATCH: Meet New York Deaf Theatre
Meet New York Deaf Theatre , the longest-running company of its kind in New York City and the third oldest Deaf troupe in the U.S. Founded in 1979, NYDT provides an artistic home for actors, creators and designers who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing where they can see their own lives and experiences reflected onstage. NYDT’s shows are accessible to both audiences who can hear and those who are Deaf or
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WATCH: Meet JACK
Meet JACK , an Obie-winning Off-Off Broadway theatre in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. JACK’s mission is to “fuel experiments in art and activism, collaborating with adventurous artists and our neighbors to bring about a just and vibrant society.” To that end, the venue showcases the work of traditionally marginalized artists, including people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community, and also
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WATCH: Meet The Fire This Time Festival
Meet The Fire This Time Festival , which showcases early-career playwrights of African and African-American descent. Part participants include Katori Hall (the ), Dominique Morisseau ( Detroit ’67 at the Public, Pipeline at Lincoln Center) and Ngozi Anyanwu ( The Homecoming Queen at the Atlantic Theater Company).
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WATCH: Meet The Anthropologists
Meet The Anthropologists , a troupe that collaboratively creates investigative theatre pieces meant to inspire action.
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WATCH: Meet This Is Not a Theatre Company
Meet This Is Not a Theatre Company , a troupe that mounts collaborative shows in offbeat spaces like pools and living rooms.
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WATCH: Meet Sanguine Theatre Company
Meet Sanguine Theatre Company , where audiences get a direct say in which adventurous play will be produced next.
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WATCH: Meet TACT (the Actors Company Theatre)
Meet TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) , where a longtime company of artists encourages each other to take risks (when they’re not cracking jokes). This film features company members James Murtaugh, Cynthia Harris, Simon Jones, Jeremy Beck, and Jeff Talbott, as well as associate artistic director Nora Chester and executive artistic director Scott Alan Evans.