Big Apple Playback Theatre is an improvisational performance company that brings stories told by the audience to life using movement, text, metaphor, music and poetry. Playback Theatre is an expression of art and a vehicle for change providing ample opportunity for laughter, reflection, connection, catharsis and dialogue.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS (Updated 3/20/07):
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
HAPPY SUMMER FROM US AT BAPT!
- Highlights this spring include: BAPT will perform again for Case managers of ACS/Child Protective Services, as well as at the Full Circle Executive Women's Retreat, Manhattanville College, Double Discovery program at Columbia University, for nephrology social workers at Beth Israel hospital, and for a NYU Wagner School for Public Service's freshmen orientation.
- NEWs: This year BAPT was awarded three grants: one from the Puffin Foundation to work with refugee children, another from the Society of the Sacred Heart to conduct a 6 week project with homeless youth, and from Verizon Wireless's Hopeline program, to offer an ongoing performance/workshop series with women and children of a local domestic violence shelter.
- BAPT continues to conduct weekly performance/workshops with teens Breakaway Adolescent Residential Substance Abuse Program in Yonkers, NY as well at Manattanville College for a special "Theater in Community" project in which the Mville students are teaching Playback to local 6th graders, teenagers and senior citizens.
- NEXT PUBLIC SHOW: MAY 30 & 31st @ Center for Rembering and Sharing, 123 4th Ave. #2 NYC (212) 677- 8621
- Invite BAPT into your organization to do a community building dialogue workshop and/ or performance. Packages described on the BOOKING page.
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"I have seen Big Apple Playback Theatre in both commercial and academic settings. The ability of the actors to work with different generations and to appeal to all was superb, and the performances revealed the potential of such a wide range of emotion."
- Denny Partridge, Chairman of Undergraduate Theater, Alice Pels Professor of Theater, Barnard College. |