Broadway improves disability access

Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:42 am

Broadway improves disability access
From BBCi

Disability consultant Kevin McGuire checks out access at the Music Box Theatre
Half of Broadway theatres are to become fully accessible to disabled people, at a cost of $5m (£3m).
A deal has been struck between the government and the Shubert Organization, which owns 16 venues.

Work is well under way to improve seating areas for wheelchairs, ticket windows and concession stands.

But the formalising of the agreement means the end of lawsuits filed against the theatre company under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Sun Sep 28, 2003 7:37 am

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N.Y.C. theaters raise curtain on improvements for disabled

Associated Press

New York- Half the theaters on Broadway, including some of its most famous stages, will become fully accessible to disabled people under an agreement announced Thursday between the landlord and the government.

Work on the 16 theaters operated by the Shubert Organization is to be finished by year's end.

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Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:20 am

Gershwin Theatre’s disabled facilities are a world first
By Judd Hollander forThe Stage

Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre, currently home to the musical Wicked, will be the first venue in the world to offer a captioning system for the deaf, audio description for the blind and a multi-language translation system at every
performance.

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