Impossible Ragtime Theater

The Impossible Ragtime Theater, the IRT, was an American theater company founded in 1974 by Ted Story, George Ferencz, Cynthia Crane and Pam Mitchell.{{cite web |url=http://www.thevillager.com/villager_352/cabaretvet.html |title=Cabaret veteran Crane is a rare bird |publisher=Thevillager.com |date=2010-02-02 |accessdate=2012-03-22 |archive-date=2011-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612061922/http://www.thevillager.com/villager_352/cabaretvet.html |url-status=dead }} It ran 100 productions over 10 years in four different theatre spaces.

In its second season, it ran two spaces at once.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/26/archives/theater-la-rondelay-impossible-ragtime-group-updates-show.html|title = Theater: La 'Rondelay'|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 26 November 1975|last1 = Gussow|first1 = Mel}}

IRT also had a Director-Playwright Collaboration program, which included authors such as Kevin O'Morrison.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cZ40AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jm4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2299,3637324&dq=impossible-ragtime-theater&hl=en|title=The Hour - Google News Archive Search}}

Jonathan Frakes and Armin Shimerman were members of the company at the same time.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/article/quark-from-deep-space-nine-part-2|title = Quark from Deep Space Nine - Part 2}} Brian Dennehy{{Cite web|url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Frakes__Jonathan|title = Pennsylvania Center for the Book}} and Ray Wise were also members.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/07/27/an-in-depth-interview-with-jonathan-frakes?page=2|title = An In-Depth Interview with Jonathan Frakes - IGN}}