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"'Exclusive: Deaf Broadway brings WAITRESS to Lincoln Center"
by Joey Mervis Broadway World July 30, 2025 
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"'We're proving that deaf people can lead,' [Artistic Director Garrett Zuercher] continued. 'We're proving the rest of the industry wrong. We're showing them that deaf people can come together and make a damn good show on our own.'" |
"'RENT' Is Coming Back To New York In A Uniquely Reimagined Form"
by Curtis M. Wong Huff Post March 27, 2024 
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...a one-night-only experience that was both eye-opening and literally buzzing...” |
"Jonathan Larson's RENT by Deaf Broadway - More Than One Singular Sensation"
by Jonathan Mandell New York Theater April 2, 2024 
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...the Deaf Broadway performance featured a full cast of Deaf performers from Broadway and Hollywood performing...Larson's musical in ASL.” |
"Photos and Video: Deaf Broadway's Sold-Out RENT at Lincoln Center"
by Andrew Gans & Logan Culwell-Block The New York Times April 3, 2024 
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[Deaf Broadway was] an endeavor that functioned like a restoration: The calculated cadences that had been lost in the subtitles were made clear visually...To Zuercher, “that is proof that captions don’t do it — access in sign language is what really provides understanding.” |
"American Sign Language Finds Its Spotlight"
by Jake Nevins The New York Times March 25, 2021 
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"Deaf Broadway Makes Statement With ASL Version of Sondheim's 'Company'"
AP News August 2, 2023 |
This collective of Deaf theater artists operates in a way rarely seen on Broadway, featuring Deaf people in creative leadership roles and in large ensembles working in an ASL-only production environment. |
"How Deaf Broadway's 'Into the Woods' Offers a Clear Vision for Accessible Musical Theater"
by Abbey White The Hollywood Reporter September 14, 2021 
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Deaf Broadway is not only redefining access to Broadway musicals for Deaf theater fans, but offering up a model for nontraditional and diverse casting along the way. |
"Deaf Broadway Makes Strides for Deaf Audiences and Diverse Casts in Musical Theater During Shutdown"
by Joey Sims TheaterMania November 24, 2020 
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“It’s incredibly rare to see a fully Deaf cast, especially in a musical,” Joey Caverly, a Deaf Broadway performer and Director of Artistic Sign Language (DASL), said in an interpreted conversation. “A completely, entirely Deaf cast of professional actors […] in the same room so to speak, working on a show, it doesn’t happen.” |
"How 'Deaf Broadway' Is Making Musical Theater Loud and Clear"
by Nicole Blackwood The Daily Beast November 8, 2020 
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The success of Deaf Broadway shows that this is an audience that loves its theatre...they hope that this encourages theatres to better accommodate those who communicate through ASL. |
"Deaf Broadway Works to Bring "Truly Full Visual Entertainment for the Deaf, By The Deaf" with New Levels Of Accessibility."
by E.H. Reiter Broadway World May 11, 2020 
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Interview with Deaf Broadway Artistic Director Garrett Zuercher
"My Broadway Memory" Town Hall podcast Broadway Podcast Network July 2, 2020 |