MTC's Stargate Theatre to Stage CRASH. BURN. RISE. at City Center, on Facebook Live

Manhattan Theatre Club's Stargate Theatre Sharon Sullivan Company will perform an original piece, Crash. Burn. Rise., this Saturday, August 20 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm at MTC - Stage II at New York City Center (131 W. 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues). Each performance will last approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by a talkback onstage with the performer-writers.

The 7:00pm performance will be broadcast in real time via Facebook Live. Viewers can access the performance by visiting Manhattan Theatre Club on Facebook.

Reservations for those who want to attend either performance in person can be made before noon on Friday, August 19 by going to www.manhattantheatreclub.com/education/stargate and clicking on "Crash. Burn. Rise. Performance Information." Seating is limited.

Stargate Theatre-a project of MTC Education's Giving Voice initiative-employs young men with a history of involvement in the justice system to write, rehearse, and perform a theatrical piece that reflects their collective identity and their aspirations, ideas, and fears about themselves and the world. Company members are guided by Stargate's Co-Artistic Directors, Emmy Award-winner and playwright Judy Tate and director Stephen DiMenna.

Crash. Burn. Rise. is a modern retelling of a classic myth. Through original scenes, stories, and poetry written and performed by the members of StarGate Theatre's 2016 Sharon Sullivan Company, this new work both challenges and honors the possibility of brotherhood in a chaotic world.

Support for the Giving Voice initiative is provided by Sharon Sullivan and Jeffrey B. Kindler, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, Inc., Deutsche Bank, The Tow Foundation, Gina and David Boonshoft, New York State Council on the Arts, The Bay and Paul Foundations, The Monteforte Foundation, Amy and David Abrams, The Bendit Family Foundation, Noah and Susanna Schankler, and the Bulova Stetson Fund.

Manhattan Theatre Club, under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. Over the past four and a half decades, MTC productions have earned numerous awards including six Pulitzer Prizes and 20 Tony Awards. MTC has a Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and two Off-Broadway theatres at New York City Center (131 West 55thStreet). Renowned MTC productions include The Father by Florian Zeller; Fool For Love by Sam Shepard; Airline Highway by Lisa D'Amour; Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein; Outside Mullingar and Doubt by John Patrick Stanley; The Commons of Pensacola by Amanda Peet; Murder Ballad by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash; Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney; The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg; Wit by Margaret Edson; Venus in Fur by David Ives; Good People and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire; The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez; Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies; Ruined by Lynn Nottage; Proof by David Auburn; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife by Charles Busch; Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally; The Piano Lesson by August Wilson; Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley; and Ain't Misbehavin', the Fats Waller musical. For more information on MTC, visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

Founded in 1989, MTC Education has enriched and illuminated the lives of thousands of students of all ages and will continue to grow as an integral part of Manhattan Theatre Club. Among the program's goals are deepening students' understanding of themselves and the world through the medium of theatre; helping to develop a knowledgeable, perceptive new audience for the theatre and for the arts in general; and improving the ability of classroom teachers to teach the arts and to incorporate arts education into curricula.