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Christopher Caz

Theater Review: ‘Little Rock’ Shines at the Sheen Center

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The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture currently hosts Little Rock, a play based on the true story of the “The Little Rock Nine”, the first black students known to attend their city’s formerly segregated Little Rock Central High School three years after the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ruled separating students based on race was unconstitutional. [Read more…] about Theater Review: ‘Little Rock’ Shines at the Sheen Center

New York Deaf Theatre Celebrates its 38th Season With ‘Maple and Vine’

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I was born clinically deaf. My mother, a nurse and homemaker, needed a solution to protect my hearing aids, transistors and wires from my tiny, inquisitive hands. She designed a little blue jacket for me to wear on which she sewed two small, strategically placed pockets onto the back of my shoulders; into these she put the transistors, and, after crossing the wires behind my neck so I couldn’t reach them, she topped off my towhead with a matching blue “bonnet” to cover my ears, again to keep the hearing aids out of reach from my wandering fingers. There’s not a picture of me before the age of two where I’m not wearing this dandy little outfit. [Read more…] about New York Deaf Theatre Celebrates its 38th Season With ‘Maple and Vine’