The American Mime Theater

Saturday, October 25, 2014, 6 - 7pm

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Members of the American Mime Theater. Image courtesy the American Mime Theater

Members of the American Mime Theater. Image courtesy the American Mime Theater

In a free, public event, the American Mime Theater will perform selected plays interspersed with a demonstration of the unique training methods of the medium "American Mime"

The American Mime Theatre is a professional performing Company and a School formed in 1952 by Paul J. Curtis, Founder & Director, and the creator of the medium, American Mime. The American Mime Theatre has functioned continuously since then making it the oldest professional mime theater in the world.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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