The production features six new plays exploring various aspects of transcendence – or moving beyond challenging circumstances – to reach higher ground, all written by an extraordinary roster of playwrights including Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck), Tony Award nominee Lyle Kessler (Orphans), and Tony Award nominee Bekah Brunstetter (The Notebook, This Is Us), alongside acclaimed writers Cate Allen (Lick), Kathryn Grant (The Good Counselor), and Jeff Tabnick (The Intimacy Effect).
Together, these playwrights offer moving, provocative, and often unexpected portraits of resilience, illuminating the moments when individuals dare to transcend circumstance, expectation, and self-imposed boundaries in pursuit of something greater.
As with all Theater Breaking Through Barriers productions, the evening features a dynamic company of performers with and without disabilities, embodying the company’s enduring belief that artistic excellence and disability are not mutually exclusive, but mutually enriching.
