About This Show
A night of IMPROVISATIONAL THEATRE & HIP HOP with one of New York’s premiere hip hop theater groups, PLAYBACK NYC, pushing the boundaries of Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Class, Sexual Orientation and “The Other.”
Join us as we ask, What color is Hip Hop? Is Hip Hop always sexist? Is it ever funny? What’s Political about Hip Hop? What does it mean to be LGBTQ or a woman or an Arab and be an emcee? Who is Hip Hop’s presidential candidate?
Wed Oct 20 @ 8pm What Color is Hip Hop? Special guest: 3rd Party.
Thurs Oct 21 @ 8pm Hip Hop and the Military. Special guest: Head Roc.
Fri Oct 22 @ 10pm LGBTQ in Hip Hop. Special guests: T’ai Freedom Ford, Simply Rob.
Sat Oct 23 @ 10pm Women in Hip Hop. Special guest: La Roka.
Sun Oct 24 @ 7pm Hip Hop and Politics. Special guests: Steve Ben Israel, Artists from We Got Issues.
Playback NYC will be joined every night by SPECIAL GUESTS from the New York Hip Hop and Spoken Word Underground.
PLAYBACK NYC: Now in its sixth year, Playback NYC uses music, dance, freestyle hip hop and improvisational theater to transform the stories, dreams, social and political conflicts of their audiences into the art of theater. Recognized as one of the first and most successful fusions of theater and hip hop, they are a featured group of the N.Y. Hip Hop Theater Festival. Playback NYC appears in clubs and theaters but also performs in prisons, schools and community groups, telling the untold stories of youth, workers, homeless people, people living with HIV/AIDS and the relatives of those lost on 9/11.
This production is a part of the Performing Ethnicity International Conference and Arts Festival, organized by Ma-Yi Theater Company, The City College of New York, the University of the Philippines system, and Philippine Forum. Major support provided by The Ford Foundation.
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