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The Arts Intel Report

Dark Disabled Stories

Feb 28 – Mar 26, 2023
81 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023, USA

For his one-man shows, Ryan J. Haddad mines the most intimate aspects of his life—family, his body, sex. Haddad’s new play, Dark Disabled Stories, which marks his Off-Broadway debut, consists of vignettes that take him to places that are impossible to navigate with a walker. “They’re ordinary, sometimes funny stories that turn dark because of the ways the world is taught to interact with disability,” Haddad recently told Playbill. “I’m excited for audiences to balk, laugh, and cringe with me about the ways strangers can be very strange.” Jordan Fein directs. —Jensen Davis