{"id":203018,"date":"2026-04-20T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203018\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:20:22","slug":"miracle-on-south-division-street-opens-at-the-sheen-center-bringing-laughs-to-lower-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203018\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miracle on South Division Street\u2019 Opens at The Sheen Center, Bringing Laughs to Lower Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMiracle on South Division Street\u201d opened in the Frank Shiner Theatre at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture<\/a> on Tuesday, April 14, in a collaboration between Penguin Rep Theatre and the Sheen Center team. The play was written by Tom Dudzick, who worked closely with director Joe Brancato.<\/p>\n

The story follows the Nowaks of Buffalo through a family meeting about an alleged miracle that happened at their barbershop in 1942. The cast is led by Joey Pittorino, Grace Experience, Liz McCartney, and Coryn Carson. The Good Newsroom attended a matinee during opening week to get the inside scoop from the cast and crew.<\/p>\n

Brancato, who is also the artistic director for Penguin Rep Theater, said, \u201cThis is a play that I have a very deep and long relationship with. I was part of the creative team when Tom [Dudzick] was creating the play, and we premiered it at Penguin Rep. Now we\u2019re revisiting this play because the time is right!\u201d<\/p>\n

He also spoke about meeting Sheen Center Executive Director MaryLou Pagano, describing the two as a \u201csort of brother-sister duo waiting to find a project to share.\u201d He added, \u201c\u2018Miracle on South Division Street\u2019 deals with a very strong theme of faith\u2026 The key thing is to have a support system of family and of love. We\u2019re going to do our little part right here at the Sheen Center to do some changing on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cast members reflect on faith and family<\/p>\n

Afterward, Coryn Carson, who plays the high-energy Beverly Nowak, said, \u201cI was raised Catholic, and it\u2019s fun to visit a different sort of family in their Catholicism and see how it plays out together on stage. Faith is deeply personal, and a journey that everyone takes on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joey Pittorino, who plays handyman brother Jimmy Nowak, added, \u201cIt\u2019s a super funny play to work on. There\u2019s a lot of laughing going on. By the time you get to the end, it\u2019s just laugh after laugh after laugh \u2014 I recommend sticking around for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit the Sheen Center\u2019s website<\/a> for tickets and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMiracle on South Division Street\u201d opened in the Frank Shiner Theatre at the Sheen Center for Thought and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5555,6300,4840,75,84,83,80362,9,24,63,80363,80364,80365],"class_list":["post-203018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-archdiocese-of-new-york","tag-catholic","tag-catholic-church","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-miracle-on-south-division-street","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sheen-center","tag-the-sheen-center","tag-the-sheen-center-for-thought-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}