The Public Theater
425 Lafayette St
212.539.8500
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Danny Hoch, Photo: Shirley Miranda-Rodriguez
- When
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Nov 7, 2008 – Dec 14, 2008
Tuesdays (7pm)
Wednesdays–Saturdays (8pm)
Sundays (2pm)
- Where
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Directions: 6 to Astor Place; R,W to 8th Street; BDFV to Broadway Lafayette
- Price
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$60
- Links
Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make the audience howl and squirm while skewering urban gentrification. Reminiscent of Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel — also directed by Tony Taccone — Taking Over channels a series of Brooklyn characters, ranging from a real estate mogul and a Midwestern transplant to long-time residents being displaced. Some of these portraits are more complex than others, and there is an occasional whiff of soapbox moralizing, but the authenticity of Hoch's connection to the material he wrote and performs is never in question.
