Hear/Now: LIVE!
Featuring New Work
By Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
and Deb Margolin
Directed by Jonathan Silverstein

Live Foley by Nick Abeel
Live Original Music by Salomon Lerner
Starring Moe Angelos, Jordan Boatman, Randy Danson, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Cesar Rosado, and Lance Coadie Williams


Running December 10-19, 2021 | All Tickets Just $25
COMING SOON: LISTEN FOR FREE ON ALL PODCAST APPS!

In 2020, Keen Company created Hear/Now: A Season of Audio Theater which updated the radio drama through a modern Off-Broadway lens. In 2021, as a bridge back to the theater, we are proud to produce two newly commissioned plays in an exciting live format.

Hear/Now: LIVE! reinvents the old-fashioned radio broadcast for the stage, featuring two world premiere plays by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen and Deb Margolin! Watch as an existential Western and a chaotic subway ride come to life through original music, live foley sound effects, and a thrilling cast of characters! Get ready, anything can happen when you’re live.

The Telegram by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Augie is the consummate cowboy - she’s hardened, principled, and quick on the draw. But when the Kid tags along, expecting stagecoach races, shootouts, and barrels of whiskey, he finds himself entirely unprepared for the absurd realities of the Wild West. Sort of your traditional radio Western, sort of not.

That Old Perplexity by Deb Margolin
While Manhattan is still reeling from the fall of 2001, Mary and Barbara find themselves in the midst of their own private crises. As their morning commute stalls, the beautiful discord of the recovering city is healed in a tiny way through the women's sudden intimate connection, the bizarre grace of a vagrant, and the organic ascendance of kindness. A comedy!

Hear/Now: LIVE! will run 90 minutes with no intermission and each piece will be presented at every performance.

MEET THE CAST

HEAR THE BUZZ

Deb Margolin is a playwright, actor and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of eleven full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, and is the recipient of an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Her solo piece, 8 STOPS, a comedy concerning the grief of endless compassion, premiered at the Kimmel Art Center in Philadelphia. Deb’s play Imagining Madoff was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play in Washington, DC, and for the Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production for its New England debut at New Repertory Theater Company in Boston. Seven Palestinian Children, a companion piece to Caryl Chuchill’s Seven Jewish Children, has been performed throughout the US and internationally. Deb is currently Professor in the Practice in Yale University’s undergraduate Theater Studies Program. She was awarded the Richard H. Brodhead Prize for Teaching Excellence at Yale, and the Kesselring Playwriting Prize, and the Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award. A book of Deb’s performance pieces and plays, entitled Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published by Cassell/Continuum Press. She lives in New Jersey, which she denies, and is grateful to the Keen Company for an unflagging attention to what’s most essential about being human.

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen full-length plays include Flood, The Empty Place (commission), The Betterment Society (published in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays), The Shaking Earth (first runner-up for both India's international Sulthan Padamsee Playwriting Prize and the Woodward International Playwriting Prize), Draw the Circle (productions: PlayMakers Rep, Mosaic Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre; published: Dramatists Play Service; winner Lambda Literary Award), Deen’s work has been presented/developed/supported by a number of institutions including New Dramatists, Sewanee Writers Conference (upcoming), Sundance Institute/Ucross, Blue Mountain Center, The Public Theater, NYTW, MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Target Margin Theatre, Keen Company, New Harmony Project, Phoenix Theatre, Chesley/Bumbalo Foundation, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, InterAct Theatre, Page73, Ma-Yi, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Dixon Place, and others.

SAFETY INFORMATION

* Proof of vaccination and masks will be required to enter the venue. *

All patrons must be fully vaccinated at least two weeks prior to their performance date. Masks must be worn inside the building at all times.

For more information, read Keen Company and Theatre Row’s full COVID protocols here.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

ASL Interpreted Performance

Thursday December 16th at 7pm

Talkback with Creatives

Saturday December 18th at 2pm

SINGLE TICKETS

Hear/Now: LIVE!
ALL TICKETS: $25

MORE INFO

Rush policies, senior discounts, and student tickets are available on a per show basis. Keen regularly partners with TDF TAP, Arts Connection's High 5, and many other community programs. Talkbacks and special workshops can be arranged based on group size and availability. Please contact Ashley DiGiorgi for more information!

PERFORMANCE VENUE

Theater Four in Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Between 9th & 10th Ave
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OPEN: Mon to Sun 12:00pm – 6:00pm
PHONE: 212-714-2442 ex 45
ONLINE TICKETING: www.theatrerow.com