Tha playz tha thang: a New York City festival confirms that hip-hop is a theatre genre to contend with. (Critic's Notebook).
American Theatre, September, 2002 by Euell, Kim
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Outside P.S. 122 in Manhattan's East Village, the energy charging the air is palpable. Inside the complex's double doors clusters a crowd of hip, multi-hued, mostly under-thirty-fives, while outside an anxious mob swarms the box office. Off to one side stands a dejected group, their faces mirroring the response to the posted "Sold Out" signs.
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The insistent rhythms and rhymes of rap music fill the air, but this crowd is not assembled for a concert. The scene is the Third NYC Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, a June 18-29 event co-produced by Danny Hoch's Caseroc Productions and ...
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