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.

Saturday, May 23 at 8:30 PM

Say Something

By Dominique Miller (California)

Are public figures obligated to use their fame to address social issues? Are community problems more important than global issues? Academy Award winner Hamilton Robinson finds himself having to wrestle with these questions until a tragic event forces him to say something.

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Spades

By J. E. Robinson (Missouri)

To the surprise of his fellow Harlem Renaissance writers, Wallace Thurman returns to New York after working as a Hollywood screenwriter as a sick, dissolute man, and his friend, Bruce Nugent, wonders “why?”

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