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Luft Gangster

First Preview: Aug 13, 2013
Opening Date: Mar 31, 2017
Closing Date: May 1, 2017
Running Time: 01:35
Luft Gangster

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Playing @
The Sheen Center
18 Bleecker St, New York City, NY 10012
The story of U.S. Army Air Corps veteran and prisoner of war Sgt. Louis Fowler is told in Lowell Byers' gripping and visceral drama, Luft Gangster.

After bailing out of his crippled B24 bomber under heavy fire from German forces, waist gunner Lou Fowler is captured by the Nazis. Incarcerated along with other Allied fliers in an inhumane Nazi prison camp, where POWs view new prisoners with suspicion as possible Nazi infiltrators, Lou has to heal his own battle injuries, as his captors treat him as just another ‘luft gangster’ - a term Joseph Goebbels created as propaganda to convince the German nation that all American flyers were criminals released from prison by the US government in order to fight in World War II.

As Lou endures the hellish and unsanitary conditions of prison camp life, subsisting on what could barely be described as food and enduring unspeakable cruelty, surviving to escape becomes his only goal. In a time and place where men on both sides of the war were stripped of all things civilized and reduced to the bare essentials of life, where a single slip of the tongue could mean death, Lou will have to rely on his faith to make it out alive.
Off BroadwayPlay - Drama
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 16
Audience Advisory: Sunday 4/30 performance @ 1 pm There is no late seating

Performance Schedule

MONDAY @ 7 PM
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM


Written By
  • Lowell Byers

Director
  • Austin Pendleton

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  • Assisted Listening System

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    Icon Parking 303 Elizabeth Street
  • Seating

    273-seat neoclassical proscenium - Loreto Theatre
  • Wheelchair Info

    Both Loreto & Black Box Theatres are Wheelchair Accessible Studio C is not

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