'How Theater Failed America' Offers Free Beer Tony Sunday

In celebration of Tony® night on Sunday, June 15, FREE BEER will be available to all audience members (21+) at the 7:00 PM performance of HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA, Mike Daisey's monologue about theater, failure, passion and hope. HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA recently transferred directly from a sold-out, critically-acclaimed run at Joe's Pub to a
strictly limited 6-week engagement (through Sunday, June 22) at Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre, where it has been drawing rave reviews. Created and performed by Mike Daisey and directed by Jean-Michele Gregory, the show began performances at the Barrow Street Theatre on Friday, May 16.

Mike Daisey has been called "the master storyteller...one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by the New York Times. In HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA he sinks his razor- sharp wit into a subject he knows well: the American theater, from the sublimely crass to the genuinely ugly. From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to "successful" working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian State of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Fearlessly implicating himself and the system he works within, Daisey seeks answers to essential and dangerous questions about the art we're making, the legacy we leave the future, and who it is we believe we're speaking to.

HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA is presented by AJ Epstein Presents as An Ethereal Mutt Production. Lighting Design is by AJ Epstein.

HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA plays Fri. & Sat. @ 7:30 PM and Sun. at 7:00 PM through June 22. The Barrow Street Theatre is located at 27 Barrow Street (at Seventh Avenue). Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online at www.telecharge.com or by phone at (212) 239-6200 or (800) 432-7250 (outside the NY metro area). For groups please call (212) 367-7690. The Box Office at the Barrow Street Theatre is open Tuesday – Sunday from 1:00-8:00 PM.

Each Sunday, a roundtable forum with theater artists and administrators will follow the performance. Slated guests: Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), Robert Brustein (Founder of Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theatre), James Bundy (Dean, Yale School of
Drama), Jim Nicola (Artistic Director, New York Theatre Workshop), Richard Nelson (Conversations in Tusculum), Lisa Kron (2.5 Minute Ride, Well), Maria Dizzia (Eurydice), Gideon Lester (Artistic Director, American Repertory Theatre), Maria Goyanes (Producer, 13P), Paige Evans (Lincoln Center) and others in conversation with working actors, technicians, designers and independent producers of the American theater. Audiences are invited to the roundtable forums immediately following Sunday evening performances.

This week's roundtable "Assembling Ensembles" (Sunday, June 15) will feature: John Collins (Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service, THE SOUND AND THE FURY), Tanya Selvararnam (Actor and collaborator with Jay Scheib and The Builder's
Association), Colleen Werthmann (Actor and Elevator Repair Service ensemble member), Heidi Schreck (Actor and collaborator with 2-Headed Calf, Seattle's Printer's Devil), Scott Walters (former AD of Illinois Shakespeare Festival and blogger) & Elizabeth Dowd (Ensemble member, Bloomsberg Theatre Ensemble).

For more information, please visit www.barrowstreettheatre.com or www.mikedaisey.com.

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