About Main Stage Productions

Main Stage productions explore the full range of theatre.  From its adaptations of classical literature to its production of original plays, the Main Stage touring group has consistently received critical acclaim and honors for its quality and innovation.  Like all NTD performances, Main Stage productions unfold in NTD’s groundbreaking theatrical style combining the visually expressive American Sign Language with the spoken word and allowing audiences to see and hear every word. 

Praise for Main Stage Productions

“Visually expressive theater in which words dance through the air, echoed by speech.”
                                                                                    Boston Globe

“The actors are acrobats, dancers, comedians, tragedians and body linguists of a very high order”
                                                                                    Chicago Tribune

“The eloquent, expressive gestures of the National Theatre of the Deaf actors add silent resonance to the spoken language.”
                                                                                    Hartford Courant

“The creative energy flowing from the stage during a National Theatre of the Deaf production was sufficient to revive at least one viewer’s faith in the theater.”
                                                                                    Kansas City Star

“Enthralling!  The high energy of the actors communicates itself triumphantly to an audience.”
                                                                                    Los Angeles Times

“This is brilliant, engrossing theatre for any audience, with a style and emotional power all its own.”
                                                                                    Louisville Times

“Amazingly beautiful, extraordinarily lively and admirably stylish.”
                                                                                    New York Post

“These players remind us that acting is the universal language.”
                                                                                    New York Times

“Entrancing!  A ballet of the hands where emotion spills out through the fingertips.  This company has made an original contribution to the professional theatre.”
                                                                                    Oklahoman

“They not only communicate with an audience, they captivate them.”
                                                                                    Palo Alto Times

“The National Theatre of the Deaf packs more imagination into five minutes than some companies put into their whole productions.”
                                                                                    Washington Post

“A splendid display of theatrical imagination.”
                                                                                    St. Louis Dispatch

“The show hustles with kinetic energy and visual delights of a more sophisticated, imaginative nature than most productions.”
                                                                                    St. Paul Evening Dispatch

“The show (An Italian Straw Hat) was an inventive and entertaining piece of theatre that completely engaged the audience with its wit, style, and clever staging.”
                                                                                    Tribune

“It (The Christmas that Almost Wasn’t) has show stopping numbers, complex choreography, memorable lines, and most particularly, talented performers with lots of energy and rhythm. …the show certainly enraptured the young audience.”
                                                                                    Hartford Courant

“The company is at its most artful in Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales"
                                                                                    New York Times

"A Child's Christmas in Wales Thomas' nostalgic jaunt into the never-never land of Christmas memory is extraordinarily well conveyed.”
                                                                                    New York Post