Downtown Urban Arts Festival / DUAF
DUAF is back for a 24th season of live new plays by award-winning artists as well as some of the nation's best emerging playwrights.
This much anticipated season at La MaMa, DUAF presents three weeks of live theater featuring Tony nominee reg e gaines and acclaimed writer Kevin Powell as well as 16 new works by emerging playwrights.
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Highlights
- 2 hours
- In person
Refund Policy
Location
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
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Agenda
WED/ JUNE 3
LET MEZALUCA BUY YOUR CAR by Desi Moreno-Penson | At a dark and lonely crossroads, a bickering Latine couple have experienced a car accident. She blames the car. He blames her nagging. And the car has quite a few opinions of his own. || FOUR; INTERWOVEN by Erika Ji | four; interwoven is a concept quartet that explores what it means to choose love and togetherness, especially when it’s hard. Four musician-storytellers interweave their unique voices and instruments in this concept quartet blending folk band, theatre troupe, and choral music, composition with devising and improvising, singing without words.
THU/ JUNE 4
FRIED LIVE SKIN by Edwin Rivera-Arias | Tio Congo, who operates a front selling chucherías in the parking lot of Toñita's Caribbean Grill in Flushing, thinks he's the King of the Cocaine Coast. That is, until he reunites with Fran Iran, who catches him with his pants down—literally. || AMENDABLE by Cris Eli Blak | At an elite East Coast college, four young women leading a progressive political club are forced into crisis when a controversial speaker is selected. Ideals of free speech collide with lived experience, exposing fractures of race, power, and performative allyship as a routine meeting spirals into an unflinching reckoning.
FRI/ JUNE 5 and SAT/ JUNE 6
UNDER THE INFLUENCE by reg e gaines | Two-time Tony-nominated playwright and Grammy-nominated lyricist Reg E. Gaines presents Under the Influence, an example of how art can inspire while focusing on the importance of paying homage to those who have forged a poetic path.