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The Fifth Step

1 upcoming performance in New York

Now playing at Symphony Space, *The Fifth Step* arrives in New York as a live, stage-based event that treats performance like testimony. The piece sits in the language of recovery and self-inventory, tracking what people admit, withhold, and risk saying aloud when the stakes are personal. Featured performers include Ani DiFranco, Tony Trischka, Abby Jimenez, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Caro Claire Burke, each working in a register that keeps the material grounded rather than theatrical. Its clearest achievement is its restraint: it lets the audience do some of the moral accounting.