Broadway is the new home for award winning poet and actress Sarah Jones, and her one-woman play, Bridge and Tunnel. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. With both humor and empathy, Jones portrays a diverse range of characters in the Foundations community, from program officers to grantees to board members, who each share their views on serving the public good and seeking best practices grounded in shared truths at a time when the very notion of the truth itself is in question. Enjoy live events at insider prices. The experiences of the women and girls from Japan, India, Uruguay, Israel, Jordan, France, Kenya and the United States depicted in the piece were based on numerous real life events and interviews. IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. You know, you couldn't really say that their work didn't have some element of political commentary in it. Sarachan: Is there any chance Bridge and Tunnel might return to NYC anytime soon? Sarah currently performs A Right to Carefor organizations including universities, schools of public health, philanthropic foundations, grass roots community groups, and conferences around the United States. World Without End by Holly Hughes. Get breaking news and the latest headlines on business, entertainment, politics, world news, tech, sports, videos and much more from AOL Tony Award-winning playwright and actress Sarah Jones recently visited Jaffa, performing selections from her Broadway hit Bridge and Tunnel in the Arab-Hebrew Theater. Sarah is mainly known for her multi-character one-person shows, including Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel and the critically-acclaimed play Sell/Buy/Date, which inspired the film. for organizations including universities, schools of public health, philanthropic foundations, grass roots community groups, and conferences around the United States. endstream
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Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists, A one-woman show featuring fourteen characters who travel the roads of assimilation and tell their story of an ever-changing America. Congratulations on everything. (Photo Paul Kolnik) Any doubts that I may have had about Sarah Jones's ability to play a Broadway theater were quickly Theater & Live Performances Sarah Jones GORDON: Sarah, this is such a daunting task. GORDON: You see this, I imagine, because I read you wanted to be a lawyer growing up as a way of perhaps putting spotlight on social ills. Found inside Page 56Bridge and Tunnel [26 January 2006] one-person play by Sarah Jones [Helen Hayes Thea; 213p]. With the goal of addressing issues of ethnic, racial, and economic disparities in health care, Sarah and Kellogg partnered to create an informative show which highlights the multicultural and class dimensions of our national health care crisis. The show plans to re-open on Broadway in March 2005! Ms. SARAH JONES (Actress, Poet): Everybody who's ever influenced me from a Richard Prior to a Whoopie Goldberg to, you know, any of the voices that have resonated with me as a performer since I was a kid. Next you discover the importance of exploring and graphing data, before moving onto statistical tests that are the foundations of the rest of the book (for example correlation and regression). WRITER / PERFORMER. But you see, either way it's the same thing, because you have to run behind the over-privileged baby who can barely form sentences. "Bridge & Tunnel" is the Broadway play that brings together a cast of American immigrants for an evening of open-mike poetry. WebMeryl Streep during Sarah Jones' "Bridge and Tunnel" Broadway Opening Night - Arrivals at Helen Hayes Theatre in New York City, New York, United States. Pamalot Entertainment, LLC. Sarah Jones, Obie-award winning playwright, actor and poet. One is to become secretary of state. WUSF 89.7 depends on donors for the funding it takes to provide you the most trusted source of news and information here in town, across our state, and around the world. Yeah. Characters include Mohammed, a charismatic Pakistani accountant; Mrs. Ling, the Chinese mother adjusting to her daughters alternative lifestyle and Nereida, a young Latina with a quick wit and an even faster tongue. Eric Falkenstein and Michael Alden will Gas prices across Florida are on the decline and could get even lower, Federal appeals court will decide whether to reinstate Andrew Warren as Hillsborough state attorney, Abortion clinics urge Florida Supreme Court to maintain privacy clause protection, 2-year-old daughter of Buccaneers player Shaq Barrett drowns in family pool in Tampa, Arkansas woman pleads not guilty to selling over 20 boxes of stolen human body parts, The Senate holds its Supreme Court ethics hearing this week with no justices, Tracking the impact of U.S.-China tensions on global financial institutions, 'A tragedy that makes you laugh': HBO's 'White House Plumbers' revisits Watergate. So it's very character-driven. I remember watching another brilliant, powerfully executed piece of theater, which I wont name, that tackled sex trafficking. Privacy Policy & Terms of Use. The press liked seeing their fellow critic Woollcott on stage but enjoyed the witty script and the fine perform- ances more, American Made Rotten Tomatoes, Sarah Jones will bring her new play, Sell/Buy/Date, to Manhattan Theatre Club's Studio at Stage II. One is to become secretary of state. Sarah premiered this original piece in 2007 as UNICEFs representative before members of Parliament from more than 100 countries gathered in Bali, Indonesia, and will continue to travel internationally, performing the piece to highlight these issues worldwide. Top $76,000-a-year New Jersey boarding school admits 'more should have been done' to stop bullying of boy, 17, who took his own life after being falsely accused of rape by cruel peers