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.

Wednesday, May 27 at 8:30 PM

Good Morning for Coffee

By Daphny Maman and Sujin Kim (New York)

Every day a young barista arrives at the coffee shop to serve its customers, but today, the first customer at the shop is an odd-looking man with an unusual and surprising request that impacts the barista and his manager in a way they never imagined.

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La Bestia: Sweet Mother

By Tom Block (Maryland)

The knife’s edge between creation and destruction . . . Based on humanity’s earliest creation myths, it is a multi-media (live music, a capella chorus and dance) exploration of three mothers — a Syrian, Honduran and American — who are forced to become destroyers. Such, we are told in those earliest tales, is the cycle of life.

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