Written by Sidney Kingsley

Directed by Randy Sharp

Dead End is Sidney Kingsley’s seminal play about kids growing on the streets of the City during the Great Depression. Dead End was a hit when it premiered on Broadway in 1935, introducing a group of young actors who went on to appear in the film adaptation, starring Humphrey Bogart, and numerous other movies under monikers such as the Dead End Kids, the Little Tough Guys, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.

Dead End takes place in a New York City where tenement houses and luxury apartments stand side by side, and extreme wealth and abject poverty intersect every day. Gangsters and bankers, prostitutes and lost children, failure and dreams of the future all live on this street. In this new imaginative vision of the play, Axis illuminates these stark contrasts with an understanding of their mythology as well as their resonance in the New York City of today.

Dead End is the latest work in which Axis has explored the history of early 20th century New York City, including last year’s Evening – 1910, about an immigrant in 1910 New York and a Bowery theater facing eviction; and, previously, Solitary Light, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

**Please Note: Recommended for Age 16+**

**Please Note: Due to the configuration of the theatre, Axis Theatre cannot accommodate late seating.**

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