Hip Hop Theatre

Hip hop theatre is a genre that emerged in the 1990s and blends hip hop aesthetics and sociopolitical content. Dive in with this conversation between Clyde Valentin and Will Power on hip hop culture, or Kamilah Forbes’ essay on the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, which has the mission of “present[ing] live, professionally executed theater written by, and about the Hip-Hop generation.”

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Essay

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Writing Detroit: Dominique Morisseau’s Practice of the Possible

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Writing Detroit: Dominique Morisseau’s Practice of the Possible

by Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley, Dominique Morisseau

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Imagining a Way Forward

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Imagining a Way Forward

Discussions on Theatre and Race

by Kamilah Forbes, P. Carl, Wes Jackson

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New Orleans Hip Hop & Charter Schools in Catch the Wall

the Contemporary Arts Center

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New Orleans Hip Hop & Charter Schools in Catch the Wall

Friday 22 June 2012

New Orleans, LA, United States

Contemporary Arts Center presented Catch the Wall's workshop livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 22 June 2012 5:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7:30 CST (New Orleans) / 8:30 EDT (New York) / 00:30 GMT (Saturday 23 June) / 9:30 a.m. KST (Seoul - Saturday 23 June) / 10:30 a.m. EST (Sydney - Saturday 23 June).

Discussion of Word Becomes Flesh, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph at 651 ARTS

651 Arts

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Discussion of Word Becomes Flesh, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph at 651 ARTS

Sunday 8 January 2012

Brooklyn, NY, United States

651 ARTS presented a pre-show chat for Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Word Becomes Flesh livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 8 January 2012 at 12 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 3 p.m. EST (New York) / 8 p.m. GMT (London).