NTID’s Department of Performing Arts presents its production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights, April 15-17, at Panara Theatre, Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall. Directed by Principle Lecturer Luane Davis Haggerty, NTID’s production features deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing actors performing on stage simultaneously.
Yesterday, a national event for the deaf community, Deafopia, came to Rochester's Main Street Armory. Deafopia is a national organization that provides a variety of services to deaf and hearing communities throughout the country. Locals such as comedians Tom Willard were able to present pop-up comedy shows at the event. Later that evening, a red
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Auditions for the RIT & NTID Performing Arts production of Angels in America will take place on Friday, August 27 from 6-10pm in the Panara Theatre on the first floor of the LBJ Building (060) of RIT’s campus. Interpreters will be provided.
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner
directed by Andy Head
It’s the 1980s. President Reagan sits in the White House while the AIDS crisis rages on. Caught in the middle are a Valium-addicted Mormon, her closeted lawyer husband, and two men ripped apart by an AIDS diagnosis. This is a story about fighting for survival, love, politics and God. In 1993, Angels in America, written by Tony Kushner, won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.