Vengeance and greed blind the citizens of Hood:14542, during a harsh awakening of the gentrification epidemic.
Yellow Man faces infamy as he returns to rehabilitate the hood. While his equally stubborn brother and other neighborhood dwellers are determined to save it.
Race, ego, lust, and blood rule this play in an impassioned debate of community and opportunity.
ABOUT THE PLAY In How to Eat an Oreo, two teen summer camps sit a stone’s throw apart. Fatima has fled the gay-to-straight conversion center, and is hiding out in Gideon’s room at weight loss camp. While Fatima awaits the sunset to make her official escape to Wal-Mart, her and Gideon navigate around one another, …
With both Ferguson and Staten Island on our minds, the planning of Khalil Kain’s “Lambs to Slaughter” was purely coincidental. “Lambs To Slaughter” tells the story of a mourning single mother living alone now in the city after the murder of her son Emmett.
Directed by Christopher Burris Featuring… IONI – Jennifer Fouche MISS MARIAH/MARIAH – Lizan Mitchell JERRY/GILBERT/PROFESSOR/EMILE – Paul Nugent CHARLES/CHARLES JERICHO DE GAST – Michael Chenevert JERICHO/FRANCOIS JERICHO DE GAST – Lorenzo Scott LISA-THOMAS/JACQUELINE JERICHO DE GAST – Tjasa Ferme ATTENDANT/MICHEL – G. Alvarez Reid ART STUDENTS/REPORTERS/VARIOUS M– — USEUM GUESTS – Jay Akin ABOUT THE …
Very excited about next week’s reading! Professor Sibley is traveling from Arkansas. ABOUT THE PLAY: What happens when long-separated siblings reunite after the death of a parent? When successful film actress Venus Kettle returns to Glee, Mississippi, to her mother’s “home going,” she is greeted by her sisters with a wide range of emotions. After …
LaTonia Phipps is an Actor-Performance Artist-Educator and Playwright who was raised in Brooklyn, New York. MFA graduate of Brooklyn College. Phipps parents are of Caribbean, Latin and Southern Black American descent which heavily influence her storytelling. Recently Phipps starred as the lead actress in Katori Hall’s “Children of Killers,” landing her a full page article in The New …
Get to know Donaldo Prescod, playwright of The 1s and 2s, our April 2013 Feature.
I met Nikkole in 2005 during her run with Danai Gurira of “In the Continuum” at the Perry Street Theater.
When you’ve stayed in contact with an artist like Nikkole in this city, I think that means something.
Interview with Playwright, Danielle Eliska Lyle
GENERATION T follows two Marines – one on psych leave and the other AWOL – and their drug-addled friends as they try to cope with life in post-9/11 America – the only America they’ve known.
