Brooklyn Tavern
Theater
BROOKLYN TAVERN THEATER
Brooklyn Tavern Theater creates original, immersive musical theater shows that are accessible and affordable to the local community in a tavern environment!
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For over five years now, we have been doing shows at neighborhood bars and other alternative spaces in Brooklyn.
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Thank you for supporting accessible, innovative theatre in NYC!
What's next for Brooklyn Tavern Theater?
Spring 2025: Brooklyn Tavern Theater will be workshopping and editing "Walls and Windows," moving towards an early 2026 production in Manhattan.
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Join us at a Brooklyn Tavern Theater House Party—hear songs from upcoming shows, find out how you can get involved and help support future productions! Send us a note below and we'll contact you!
Come to our Fall 2025 production of "Impossible But True"—more details soon!
"Impossible But True," loosely based on Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," is about how people in a small town in the Catskills discover they are capable of making a revolution—that "things are possible." Enjoy a mug of Revolutionary-era "flip" as you watch the show in a Brooklyn tavern!
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We are also reaching out to interest theaters, venues and producers in a new production of "The Joe Hill Revival," which we premiered in 2021 at Rustik Tavern in Bed-Stuy. Visit the page on this website—this is a musical for the times we live in and needs a production! We would love to work with you on this project if you'd like to get involved.
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Artistic Director
Dan Furman
Dan hails from Old Hickory, Tennessee (just outside Nashville). He began playing piano and composing music at an early age and went on to study composition and jazz piano at Oberlin Conservatory. Following college, he spent 10 years as a political and union activist working in industrial jobs from steel fabrication to mattress making. After moving to New York in 2003 to play jazz, he began writing for music theater as well. He spent four years in the BMI Lehman Engels Musical Theater Workshop. Furman is founder of Brooklyn Tavern Theater, which puts on original musicals in taverns in Brooklyn and beyond. He is composer/lyricist/bookwriter of "Impossible But True," "Joe Hill Revival" and composer and lyricist for "Ybor City" (with Anita Gonzalez, bookwriter) and Sign In the Six O'Clock Sky (with bookwriter Arnold Schulman). Another project is "The Proust Virus," a stage musical about video game characters who question the meaning of life after Proust's work is uploaded into their game. He lives in Brooklyn with neuroscientist Kim Allen and two bunnies. He works as a jazz pianist and vocal accompanist at clubs and acting schools in Manhattan. (www.danfurman.com, www.brooklyntaverntheater.com)
Associate Artistic Director
Jerome Harmann-Hademan
Jerome is a veteran of Broadway, off-Broadway, national and international tours, regional theater. Currently on Broadway in The Notebook the Musical as well as narrating audio books for Penguin Random House. Some favorite projects include: A Soldiers Play, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The Laramie Project, The Life of Adam Clayton Powell, the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, The Long Dance at The Meisner Theater, Es Geht Mir Gut, A Night At The Circus, Swing The Musical (Broadway Company) with Ann Hampton Callaway, Kiss of The Spiderwoman with Chita Rivera, The Fantasticks, The Full Monty with Elaine Stritch, Ragtime, Jesus Christ Superstar with Billy Porter and Emily Skinner, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Andreas Bieber, Floyd Collins, Dreamgirls, Once On This Island, Five Guyʼs Named Moe, Smokey Joeʼs Café, The Man of La Mancha, Evita with Flo Lacy, Evita with Rebecca Storm and Cats. On television, Uncle Gary in CBS’s FBI, Chris Vegaʼs boxing coach on ABCʼs Ê»One Life To Liveʼ, Cable com exec, NBCʼs 30 Rock, Federal Agent Smith on ABCʼs “All My Children”. Voiceover: ‘Teenaged Euthanasia” Cartoon Network, Bayer AG., AT&T, Ê»The Green Jacketʼ, 'Measuring Upʼ and Ê»Eveʼs Placeʼand ‘A Taste of Honey’. Direction and choreography include: Dan Furman’s ‘The Joe Hill Revival’ at The Brooklyn Art Haus, Ê»The Anselmo Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring Ann Hampton Callawayʼ, Ê»Anselmo Awards featuring Regis Philbin’,Ê»The Rocky Horror Picture Showʼ Essen Germany, ‘Mixed Messages’ by Anton Spivak, HB Studios New Playwrights Series, NYC, ‘The Gershwin Galaʼ International Tour, Ê»Benefiz Konzert fur Kinder Krebsʼ, Ê»Caritas Foundation - A Few Good Friends’, Aachen-Alsdorf, BRD, The Delivery Girls at Harlanʼs & the Metropolitan Room, apprentice choreographer for The Dance Theatre of Harlem Sunday Open Houses’ and apprentice choreographer to the Companie du Danse Eddy Toussaint in Montreal.