Off Broadway’s Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), which advances artists with disabilities, presents Transcendency Rising: Short Plays About Defying Limitation, an evening of original short works, running from Saturday, March 21 through Saturday, April 11 at Theatre Row.
The works explore various aspects of transcendence—moving beyond challenging circumstances—to reach higher ground, offering 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.
Transcendency Rising: Short Plays About Defying Limitation includes:
From Buffalos by Adam Linn; Directed by Nicholas Viselli. Featuring Fareeda Pasha (TBTB’s Brecht on Brecht; Film: Silent Partner)
How The Universal Will Spends Its Sundays by Jeff Tabnick; Directed by Eric Nightengale. Featuring Ann Marie Morelli (NY: A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Dan Teachout (NY: Hamlet), Aya Ibaraki (NY: The Lady from the Sea), and Melanie Portsche (TBTB’s Day in Dark: A Tale of Too Much Light).
Monologue by Tatiana G. Rivera, Directed by Nicholas Viselli. Featuring Katharine Rose Kessler (The Lesson)
Forgotten Corners Of Your Dark, Dark Place by Bekah Brunstetter; Directed by Brian Leahy Doyle. Featuring Jennifer Elizabeth Bradley (Regional: Come From Away), Jamie Petrone (“FBI: Most Wanted”), Amanda Cortinas (NY; And We Danced), and Emma Shafer (Regional: What the Constitution Means to Me)
Original Monologue by Marc Winski; Directed by Nicholas Viselli. Featuring Marc Winski (National Tour: Grease)
The Upside Down Man by John Patrick Shanley; Directed by Ivette Dumeng. Featuring Nelson Avidon (TV: CBS’ “East New York”) and Veronica Cruz (Film: Our Bodies and Other Shames)
Sounds of Stillness by Dipti Mehta; Directed by Nicholas Viselli. Featuring Dipti Mehta (TV: CBS’ “FBI”)
The Calling by Kathryn Grant; Directed by Ann Marie Morelli. Featuring Carla Brandberg (TV: Netflix’s “Archive 81”), Scott Barton (Regional: Fifth of July), Enrique Huili (NY: Mogadishu Ghost Story), and Melanie Portsche (TBTB’s Day in Dark: A Tale of Too Much Light).
Redemption by Lyle Kessler; Directed by Nicholas Viselli. Featuring Xen Theo (Dial M for Murder)
The Body Is a Waiting Room for Ghosts by Cate Allen, Directed by Pamela Sabaugh. Featuring Samantha Debicki (Power Plays, Still More of Our Parts), Stuart Green (Brecht on Brecht, My Funny Quarantyne), John Little (King of the Jews, Shadowlands), Ann Flanagan (Brecht on Brecht, BIRD Theatre Festival in Japan) and Christine Bruno (Public Servant, SAG-AFTRA New York Local Board Chair of the NY Local PWD Committee).
Performance Schedule: Thursday and Friday at 7 PM; Saturday at 2 PM and 7 PM; Sunday at 2 PM. Additional performance Wednesday, April 8 at 7 PM
Tickets are $60 and are available at the Theatre Row Box Office or online at theatrerow.org
Theatre Row is located at 410 West 42nd Street, New York City
For more information about TBTB, please visit https://www.tbtb.org/
