DOWNTOWN URBAN THEATER FESTIVAL was founded in 2001 with the purpose of building a fresh repertoire of stories that echo the true spirit of urban life while speaking to a whole new generation whose lives defy categorizing along conventional lines, the 13th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival will present seventeen new stage works by eighteen of America’s finest emerging playwrights, all sharing stories that interpret our history and our times through live performances fusing theatre, dance, music, media and visual arts.

Thursday, May 28 at 8:30 PM

Outside the Box

By Irene Hernandez (New York)

A young woman gets unexpected thrown out of her apartment… in a text message. When it comes to surviving in New York, she’ll have to think outside the box… and pack her sense of humor.

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Run. Hide. Be Quiet.

By Shyla Idris (New York)

A woman finds herself confined to a seclusion room on an inpatient psychiatric ward. Here she will have to wrestle with her sanity, her family, a dark secret and her future . . . if she can get out.

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