Andrew Block
Andrew Block is an Ovation Award-winning director who hails from New Orleans and now works primarily with the vibrant NYC independent theatre community. He also serves as TDF’s Partnerships and Off and Off-Off Broadway Services Manager.
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Exciting & Inexpensive Theatre: 10 Shows to See Off-Off Broadway in November
Enjoy immersive productions, politically charged plays and other innovative fare
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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: Kinesis Project Dance Theatre
Meet , an organization that produces concerts, facilitates educational programs, and creates site-specific performances , often outdoors, with diverse communities. This weekend on September 16-17, you can catch Kinesis in action on the rooftop terrace of John Jay College as the company presents TimePiece, or: Another imperfect measurement of us . Get a taste of Kinesis’ work by watching our docume
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WATCH: What Is Site-Specific?
We’ve got a new video in our Theatre Dictionary ! (You can browse all our videos right here .)