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The Best Brother
First Preview: Feb 6, 2025
Opening Date: Feb 8, 2025
Closing Date: Feb 23, 2025
Running Time: 01:45
Playing @
Theater for the New City
155 First Ave, New York, NY 10003
The Best Brother begins in the 1980’s. Two pre-teen African-American boys–models of brotherly closeness–are being raised in Harlem by an American mother and a righteous, religious African-born father who violently resists his wife’s ambition to become a professional singer. When these parents are forced by their cultural differences to divorce, their boys are separated. The elder son, Daniel, must go with his father to Angola, where the father dies fighting in the Civil War. The younger boy, Paolo, must remain here with his mother, who loses her operatic voice and descends into alcoholism. Twenty-two years later, the older son, now a religious man, finds the means to return to America and reconnect with his long-lost family. To his despair, he finds that his mother has died, and his beloved brother is nowhere to be found. Although repatriated, Daniel does not understand the new America and finds himself in another war trying to restore closeness with his long-lost brother. The play asks, “Under what circumstances does brotherly love allow itself to thrive?”
Show Notes: No intermission
Performance Schedule
THURSDAY-SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM
Written By
- Victor Vauban Júnior
Director
- Victor Vauban Júnior
TDF Tickets Offers:
TDF Member tickets:
Not currently available for this show
Listed at 
Never
Full-price tickets:
$23.00 - $23.00
Accessibility
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Box Office
Counter 43". -
Parking
SVI Permit. -
Curb Ramps
All corners. -
Passenger Loading Zone
Front. -
Restroom
Unisex: Lobby. Lightweight door 33". Stall 66" x 68". Commode 19". Grab bars. -
Seating
Four Theatres: Three on lobby-level (one seating 240, two seating 99 each), one in basement (seats 65). No fixed seating in any of the theaters. -
Elevator/Escalator
Elevator: For access to basement theater. Lift for one person using wheelchair and one ambulatory person. Operated with key by house manager. -
Telephone
Lobby. Coin slot 61". Cord 29". -
Entrance
Ground level. Double doors in series (each 36"). Easy to operate with adequate maneuvering space. -
Visual Assistance
None. -
Water Fountain
None. -
Assisted Listening System
None. -
Wheelchair Info
No fixed seating in any of the theaters.
