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    • SEASON SIX
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      • SLEEP OVER STORIES
      • MAN IN LOVE
      • The Subject
    • SEASON THREE >
      • RACHEL
      • LAS MENINAS
    • Season Two >
      • THE DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH
      • AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
      • VIŞNE BAHÇESI (THE CHERRY ORCHARD)
      • READ REVIVE RECLAIM
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      • BED-STUY ALIVE! FESTIVAL
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Season Two


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THE DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH

On January 9, 2014, New Brooklyn Theatre opened its  site-specific production of Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith, performed inside Interfaith Medical Center in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. New Brooklyn Theatre produced the show in order to highlight the threat of imminent closure that the hospital faced and to provoke a citywide conversation about health, race, and class.

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

In June New Brooklyn Theatre staged a site-specific production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play An Enemy of the People near the site of the chemical spill. An Enemy of the People is about a man who discovers evidence that a local business has been unknowingly polluting the town’s hot springs, the town’s main source of revenue and jobs. 
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VIŞNE BAHÇESI (THE CHERRY ORCHARD)

Immediately following the first round of voting in Turkey’s 2014 presidential election, New Brooklyn Theatre, in association with Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, staged a site-specific production of a
new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 
The Cherry Orchard
in Turkish in Istanbul. 

READ REVIVE RECLAIM

In June 2014 New Brooklyn Theatre launched a monthly series of readings of historic but seldom seen plays by African-American playwrights. The series began with the oldest surviving play written by an African-American playwright and moved forward chronologically from the Antebellum period through the Harlem Renaissance.
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