Paradise Square

This ambitious new musical tells the story of a saloon in Manhattan’s Five Points neighborhood in the 1860s. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, the show tackles issues of race, class and immigration, and asks what it means to be an American. Pulling from Irish and African American music and dance traditions, Paradise Square transports audiences to the streets and tenement houses of Lower Manhattan during the time leading up to the so-called draft riots of 1863.