Penny Arcade, The Civilians, Mike Daisey, et al. Set for Occupy Broadway Performance Protest

Penny Arcade, The Civilians, and Mike Daisey will be among the performers who will participate in Occupy Broadway, a 24-hour performance protest event, which will be set up in a privately owned public space (POPS) near Times Square, beginning Friday, December 2 at 6pm and lasting until Saturday, December 3 at 6pm.

Participating artists and theater companies will also include The Working Groups of OWS, HERE Arts Center, Jenny Romaine and Great Small Works, The Foundry Theatre, The Church of Stop Shopping, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, NY Labor Chorus, The Yes Men, Ayo Jackson, April Yvette Thompson, The Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, Tony Torn, Carlo Alban, Urban Research Theatre, Yolanda Kay, The Big Bank- A Musical, Rocha Dance Theater, and Reno.

A press release from organizers of the event states, “In a time when downtown theaters are rapidly losing their spaces, being turned into high-end fashion stores, Occupy Broadway is a symbolic attempt to regain the space of theatre as an accessible, popular art form, bringing it back to where it all started – in a public space, for the common citizen. We are using public space to create a more colorful image of what our streets could look like, with public performances, art, and music.”

Performances will be presented free of charge.

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