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Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World Quick Facts

First Preview: Dec 1, 2015
Opening Date: Dec 1, 2015
Closing Date: Jan 16, 2016
Running Time: 01:20
Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World Quick Facts

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Playing @
Beckett Theatre
410 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036
Harvard-educated, molecular biologist, visual artist and provocative underground philosopher, Steven Friedman has the answers to life’s big questions.
This one-of-a kind theatrical event – neither play nor lecture – staged to reflect Friedman’s prismatic and eclectic vision of the world, uses personal narrative, poetry, art and science to tell the story of a contemporary philosopher's quest to fulfill Einstein's ambition "to solve the riddle of the great, big world."

In a spell-binding and often divisive performance, Friedman offers a solution to the world’s pain – a philosophy based on Kierkegaard’s story in which an ancient torture device, Phalaris’s Bull, turned the terrible sounds of pain into music. To create is to enter Phalaris’s bull, and our pain becomes beauty.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 7 PM
SATURDAY @ 2 PM

Off BroadwayPerformance ArtPlay - Drama
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 16

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Full-price tickets:

$69.00 - $69.00

Accessibility

  • Box Office

    The box office is in the lobby which is is street level.
  • Curb Ramps

    There are curb ramps on 9th Ave or Dyer Ave
  • Restroom

    There are wheelchair accessible restrooms.
  • Elevator\Escalator

    Elevator.
  • Telephone

    none
  • Entrance

    Street level
  • Visual Assistance

    None
  • Folding Armrests

    None
  • Water Fountain

    The fountain is wheelchair accessible.
  • Assisted Listening System

    Infrared listening system and assistive listening both available.
  • Wheelchair Info

    There are designated areas for wheelchairs. Wheelchair seating available.

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