FINAL performances this week of America Is Hard To See, a new Off-Broadway play that takes on a very thorny topic – sexual wrongdoing – and it’s a mind-opener! Here’s hoping the play gets another bigger run in NYC, and goes on the road. Closing night is Feb. 24th. There’s more about the play (it’s based on a real life community-in-exile) and how it was made in the reviews and video linked below. -Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire info@thedobbswire.com
TICKETS (get two tickets for the price of 1, use code 2FOR1)
http://www.here.org/shows/detail/1927/
Reviews
TheaterMania review by Zachary Stewart: A Colony of Sex Offenders Takes the Stage in America Is Hard to See
Gay City News review by Andy Humm: Off-Putting Topic, Terrific Show
http://gaycitynews.nyc/putting-topic-terrific-show/
New York Times review by Laura Collins-Hughes: An ‘Our Town’ With Sex Offenders, in ‘America Is Hard to See’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/theater/review-america-is-hard-to-see-travis-russ.html
How the play was created
WLTV TV News: Florida sex offender story moves to New York stage (Video)
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