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Kate Lord | The Wall Street Journal

In Hospital, Treatment Takes Center Stage

'The Death of Bessie Smith' Generates Buzz at a Struggling Brooklyn Hospital

"It is perhaps the city's most dramatic blend of theater and health policy in nearly 30 years, since the off-Broadway debut of Larry Kramer's scorching AIDS lecture, "The Normal Heart," in 1985."
— The Wall Street Journal

A New Theater Company Looks for a Home in Bed-Stuy’s Slave Theater

"'This was an opportunity to have a home that honored the history, that gave something back to the community and provided an opportunity for developing artists and kids in the neighborhood to have something to do,' Mr. Solari said. 'It’s going to be a long uphill climb to be able to get this place open again, and that’s what we signed up for. We didn’t know everything that would come at us, but in the meantime, I’m just trying to produce good theater.'"
— The Observer

Chip Ellis | West Virginia Gazette

Brooklyn Theater Company Adapts Classic Play to Address W.Va. Water Crisis

"What happens after the play is over, they say, is in the hands of the people." — West Virginia Gazette

Sound of Violence:
Anti-lynching Play Uses Audio Footage of Eric Garner

"The New Brooklyn Theatre production of 'Rachel,' a play written in 1916, draws parallels between the lynchings of that time and racially-motivated violence happening today." — The Brooklyn Paper