Events starts: March 27, 2011 – 3:00 pm
Event ends: March 27, 2011 – 5:30 pm
Event ends: March 27, 2011 – 5:30 pm
Location: Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave and 10th St. Subway: L to 1st Ave, 6 to Astor Place
Following the play, Judy Gearhart, Executive Director of International Labor Rights Forum will share brief remarks on modern day sweatshops and factory fires.
Theater for the New City [1] presents the world premiere of "Birds on Fire" by award-winning playwright Barbara Kahn with music by EMMY nominee Allison Tartalia. Birds on Fire portrays what might have been the lives of four unidentified victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village.
March 17 - April 3, 2011. Thurs - Sat at 8 P.M., Sun at 3 P.M. Tickets: $12, 212-254-1109.