Deaf West's Production Transfers To Broadway

VIDEO: Believe! Deaf West's Spring Awakening revival opens on Broadway.

BROADWAY - Deaf West’s revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Spring Awakening opens officially at the Great White Way's Brooks Atkinson Theatre on September 27. Directed by Michael Arden, the staging incorporates American Sign Language with the dialogue, as select characters are portrayed as Deaf, with additional performers providing their voices.

In honor of the musical’s big night, Broadway.com resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson created this sketch. The portrait includes Austin P. McKenzie as Melchior, Daniel N. Durant as Moritz, Sandra Mae Frank as Wendla, and the key supporting cast including Oscar winner Marlee Matlin as a variety of adult characters, along with Broadway.com



Audience Choice Award winners Krysta Rodriguez as Ilse and Andy Mientus as Hanschen and more! Broadway.com wishes the cast of Spring Awakening a happy opening. Make sure you get "Totally F**ked" at the after-party... Read more: http://broadway.com/buzz/182198/believe-deaf-wests-spring-awakening-revival-opens-on-broadway/



Get tickets to Spring Awakening: http://broadway.com/shows/spring-awakening



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Cochlear Controversy Dramatized In ‘Sound’

Deaf News: The world-premiere play “Sound” explores the controversy over cochlear implants for the Deaf.

SEATTLE TIMES - To hear? To speak? To sign? Those are the questions.



Deaf children in America are eligible for a procedure that can significantly expand their ability to hear. It is a cochlear implant, and rather than amplify sounds like hearing aids do, it works by directly stimulating the auditory nerve in the brain.



By 2012, about 96,000 adults and children in the U.S. alone had undergone the procedure.



Yet while many have hailed it as a breakthrough that not only can turn up the volume but also help Deaf children develop speech, not everyone is cheering.



“There are a lot of emotional feelings about CIs (cochlear implants) in the Deaf community,” explained Howie Seago, a Deaf Tacoma-bred theater artist and co-director of the new play “Sound,” which debuts this week at ACT Theatre.



“Many Deaf people feel that the doctors and other ‘professionals’ in the field of deafness consider us ‘defective’ and need to be fixed,” Seago commented by email.



“They stress this ad nauseam to the parents and do not fully educate them as to the range of communications options available. They almost always leave out the benefits of using sign language with their Deaf child.”



The conflict over whether children in particular need the device intrigued Seago’s co-director, Desdemona Chiang, when she read an early draft of hearing playwright Don Nguyen’s drama, “Sound.” It portrays the heated dispute between a Deaf father and his non-Deaf ex-wife over whether to try to restore their daughter’s hearing with CIs... Read more: http://seattletimes.com/entertainment/theater/cochlear-controversy-dramatized-in-sound/

Deaf West's Broadway Spring Awakening

VIDEO: In Rehearsal With Deaf West's Broadway Spring Awakening.

NEW YORK CITY - You may think you know Spring Awakening, but you've never seen or heard it like this. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony-winning musical returns to Broadway in the hands of the famed Deaf West Theatre in a brand-new production featuring a young cast of Deaf and Hearing actors performing the show simultaneously in English and American Sign Language.

The results will not only blow your mind, but are sure to provide an even more emotionally overwhelming experience than you ever expected.



Get tickets to Spring Awakening: http://broadway.com/shows/spring-awakening



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UNICEF: Deaf Students Take The Stage & Look To The Future

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf students take the stage and look to the future.



Producer Nerina Penzhorn visits a 150-year-old school for the Deaf in New York City where students are using theatre to express their creativity and their hopes and dreams.

For more information, visit http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/usa_69797.html

Singing With Hands, Hearing With Eyes

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf Theatre: Singing with hands, hearing with eyes. (RussiaToday Documentary)



They sing with their hands and hear with their eyes. Actors from the Nedoslov Theater are hard-of-hearing or completely Deaf.



Most come to the theater after graduating from the Russian State Special Institute of Arts. RT looks at their lives inside and outside the theater.

Sochi 2014 Winter Games: Nedoslov Russian Deaf Theater Performance in Sochi



Watch more on RT's documentary channel http://rtd.rt.com

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RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.

Hope! Deaf Theatre: Performance Crew Exclusive Interviews

VIDEO ASL/CC - Hope! Deaf Theatre: Exclusive interviews with students of arts, culture and recreation through Bartimea School for the Deaf and Blind presents.



In a celebration of Deafness within the hearing world, Hope! tells the story of Thabo, a boy born Deaf and cast out by his community who believe he is bewitched. In his exile, Thabo is found by a tenacious and helpful Deaf girl who teaches him to communicate in sign language.



Thabo is eventually reunited with his family and the community realizes that his deafness is not a bewitchment.



The play is acted in sign language by students from the Bartimea School for the Deaf and Blind, and narrated for the hearing in English, isiXhosa and Sesotho. Report by Robyn Perros and Michelle Avenant.

Hope! finds its expression within the fusion of the hearing and the Deaf. The play is a celebration of Deafness within the hearing society.



It is a delightful, touching story of a young boy born Deaf, rejected by his parents in fear of societal embarrassment and declared bewitched by his own community.



This is modern storytelling in its purest form combining speech, movement and physicality. SOURCE.

The Deaf Community: Seeing Voices

ASL/AUDIO Version - The Deaf Community: Seeing Voices - Teresa Curtin, Aaron Kubbey, Lewis Merkin, Terrylene Sacchetti. Moderated by Janice Rimler presented at, NewYorkLiveArts - Live.



The Sign Language as the distinct expression of their culture and community. Sacks travelled to Gallaudet University to witness the tumultuous events and subsequently chronicled them with remarkable sympathy and insight in his book "Seeing Voices".



This panel, moderated by Janice Rimler, will focus a variety of such voices on Sacks' contributions to the wider discourse between the hearing and the Deaf.

Seeing Voices - With Seeing Voices, Dr. Sacks launches on a journey into the world of the Deaf, which he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere.



Seeing Voices begins with the history of Deaf people in the United States, the often outrageous ways in which they have been seen and treated in the past, and their continuing struggle for acceptance in a hearing world. And it examines the amazing and beautiful visual language of the Deaf–Sign–which has only in the past decade been recognized fully as a language–linguistically complete, rich, and as expressive as any spoken language. ...READ MORE: http://www.oliversacks.com/books/seeing-voices/

Deaf Theatre: Message By Canadian Deaf Actors

VIDEO [ASL/CC] - Deaf Theatre: Message by Canadian Deaf actors and director.



We are part of The Northern Lights Theatre (Deaf Theatre project) with European's Deaf actors and directors. Currently, Canada does not have a "Deaf Theatre".



The director, Liz, is asking Deaf organizations and people to help and donate some money toward Canada's funding. Currently, We do not have any money because many grants don't see her Deaf actors as professional yet.

This project is their first step of setting up the future Canada's Deaf Theatre. More details at The Northern Lights Theatre and/or www.Actor-ElizabethMorris.com for more informations.



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Sean Berdy Performs - Deaf Dancing Group

VIDEO [CC] - ASL Music Video: Sean Berdy Performs Deaf Dancing Group Part 1 and 2.



Sean Berdy, star of the ABC Family's "Switched at Birth", performing with an all Deaf dancing group.

Cochlear Implant Users Parody

VIDEO [CC] - Parody of the cochlear implant users.



'Cochlear Implant' parody. Watch the video and giving you an example of what a cochlear implant looks like. It's a worthwhile to watch hilarious video. Enjoy!

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