taking over
Opening Night: January 1, 1970
Closing: January 1, 2009
Theater: The Public Theater
In the solo play, Hip-Hop Theater pioneer Danny Hoch storms the stage once again to chronicle the current state of gentrification of New York City. Blazing through a fierce spectrum of New Yorkers, Hoch gives voice to everyone from the developers evicting locals to make way for lofts, to the bar-hopping career hipsters who buy them, and those left in the wake of both.
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November 24, 2008
Marion is, by her description, “a big black woman,” and hardly a retiring type. But when she walks into the new French café in her neighborhood — a place dominated by thin, pale, chic people — nobody sees her. It’s not that she’s being ignored, she says; it’s that “I don’t exist.” In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, her longtime neighborhood, she has become an invisible woman.
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