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Theater Garden is now the official not-for-profit fiscal partner for LIBERTY, a monumental new musical. Tax-deductible donations toward LIBERTY 's Fall 2011 opening can now be made through Theater Garden. You can help build the foundation for this groundbreaking show! Just like Joseph Pulitzer, Emma Lazarus and the numerous carpenters, masons and ironworkers, not to mention the newsies, pushcart peddlers and railroad workers, who gave their pennies, nickels and dimes to fund Liberty’s pedestal. When making your donation through Network for Good, please select LIBERTY as your program designation.

Here are the benefits for varying levels of tax-deductible donation:

$1 - $99 - Carpenter - Red Member Card for 10% off selected merchandise
$100 - $499 - Mason - Orange Member Card for 20% off full price tickets & selected merchandise
$500 - $999 – Iron Worker - One Complimentary Ticket to a Preview Performance + Orange Member Card
$1,000 - $4,999 - Poet - Two Complimentary Tickets to a Preview Performance + Orange Member Card
$5,000 - $9,999 - Sculptor - Four Complimentary Tickets to a Preview Performance + Orange Member Card and a show CD
$10,000 and up - Visionary - Four Complimentary Tickets to Opening Night + Orange Member Card, signed show poster and CD

Remember Lady of Copper?

You know you do!

But have you heard the news that Lady of Copper has now been developed into LIBERTY, a monumental new musical?

You have?

Did you also know that LIBERTY is opening off-Broadway in the fall of 2011, just in time for the Statue of Liberty’s 125th birthday?

You knew that too?

Well, we bet you didn’t know this:

Theater Garden is now the official not-for-profit fiscal partner for LIBERTY, a monumental new musical. Tax-deductible donations toward LIBERTY's Fall 2011 opening can now be made through Theater Garden. You can help build the foundation for this groundbreaking show! Just like Joseph Pulitzer, Emma Lazarus and the numerous carpenters, masons and ironworkers, not to mention the newsies, pushcart peddlers and railroad workers, who gave their pennies, nickels and dimes to fund Liberty’s pedestal. When making your donation through Network for Good, please select LIBERTY as your program designation.

Here are the benefits for varying levels of tax-deductible donation:

$1 - $99 - Carpenter - Red Member Card for 10% off selected merchandise
$100 - $499 - Mason - Orange Member Card for 20% off full price tickets & selected merchandise
$500 - $999 – Iron Worker - One Complimentary Ticket to a Preview Performance + Orange Member Card
$1,000 - $4,999 - Poet - Two Complimentary Tickets to a Preview Performance + Orange Member Card
$5,000 - $9,999 - Sculptor - Four Complimentary Tickets to a Preview Performance + Orange Member Card and a show CD
$10,000 and up - Visionary - Four Complimentary Tickets to Opening Night + Orange Member Card, signed show poster and CD

*All discounts are subject to availability and may be revoked at any time.

We’re laying the groundwork for LIBERTY’s rise, and every brick brings Theater Garden closer to becoming an Associate Producer for LIBERTY, a monumental new musical.

Please visit Network for Good to make your donation, and type "Liberty" in the designation or dedication box.

Co-founder and Artistic Director Dana Leslie Goldstein's award-winning play, NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM, completed its run at the WorkShop Theater Company on October 31, 2009. Byrne Harrison of Stagebuzz.com said the play, "..feels at once new and exciting, but there is also something comfortable about it. These are not characters you have seen before, but they are familiar nonetheless, and that familiarity makes it easy to slip on this play like a favorite shirt. With Goldstein's strong writing and the cast's remarkable work, it would be hard not to care for the Mendels and the story that spins out over the course of the play..." Theater Garden Co-founder and Artistic Director Rob McIntosh directed. For more information about this remarkable production, visit

For the fourth year in a row, Theater Garden has received funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs for the development of new work which explores an aspect of American History.