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Let’s make 2017 better: Help TONYC lift up stories & spark creative change

Happy holiday season: it’s not always easy to find joy right now, but we’re working towards it daily, at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC. If you’re feeling anything like we are, you’ve had enough of 2016. 

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Rise & Fight for Creative Change: Upcoming Events & New Faces

At Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, we have been organizing and strategizing with our partners, actors, and audiences.

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Highlights from Activate 2016 #WatchActParty

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Activate at Downtown Art last week – we had such a blast celebrating creative change! Check out some photo highlights taken by Will O'Hare and Gerardo Coello Escalante#WatchActParty #TuneInTurnOut

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Spect-Actor Action Steps, 10/14/2016

On Friday, we brought Harlem to East New York for a special performance of Homestead Instead: Reclaiming the Dream, a fabulous and fun forum play addressing homelessness, housing, gentrification, and homesteading, created and performed by Concrete Justice!

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Spect-Actor Action Steps, 10/3/2016

Last night we kicked off our bimonthly Arts & Activism series at Judson Memorial Church with the Housing Works theatre troupe's raw and powerful multimedia forum play Some Things $ Can't Buy, addressing the hurdles to healthcare access for trans women.

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