The Public Theater
425 Lafayette St
212.539.8500
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Steve Connell and Sekou (tha Misfit) in The Word Begins
- When
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Friday Jan 8, 2010 (8:30pm)
Saturday Jan 9, 2010 (2pm)
Sunday Jan 10, 2010 (9:30pm)
Monday Jan 11, 2010 (9:30pm)
Thursday Jan 14, 2010 (9:30pm)
Friday Jan 15, 2010 (7pm)
Saturday Jan 16, 2010 (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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$15
- Links
The Public Theatre's ambitious and acclaimed Under the Radar Festival brings performance and theater artists from around the world to Astor Place for a fortnight of absolutely new productions and related conversations designed to make the world a little smaller and your horizons that much broader. The topsy-turvy schedule and scattering of venues can be a little daunting, with offerings spanning the spectrum from music to storytelling, movement arts, and multimedia installation. But one sure highlight is the celebrated production, The Word Begins, a collaboration of actor/poet/provocateurs Steve Connell and Sekou (tha Misfit). Fixtures on the vibrant LA spoken word scene, where this attention-getting dialectic was refined, the men are known separately and in tandem for their hypnotic, seductive, emotionally charged, and ferociously honest deconstructions of race, class, and gender politics.
