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The Impossible Ragtime Theater, the IRT, was an American theater company founded in 1974 by Ted Story, George Ferencz, Cynthia Crane and Pam Mitchell. [1] It ran 100 productions over 10 years in four different theatre spaces.

In its second season, it ran two spaces at once. [2]

IRT also had a Director-Playwright Collaboration program, which included authors such as Kevin O'Morrison. [3]

Jonathan Frakes and Armin Shimerman were members of the company at the same time. [4] Brian Dennehy [5] and Ray Wise were also members. [6]

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