New York City Hip-Hop Theater Festival Comes to NYU

The Hip-Hop Theater Festival has partnered with NYU and its Center for Multicultural Education and Programs to bring three weeks of hip-hop theater (Sept. 23–Oct. 11) to the NYU community and New York City. In addition to the on-stage programming, this year’s highlights will include teacher trainings, educational panels, and workshops.
    Marcella Runell Hall, diversity educator and trainer at NYU’s Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, stresses the importance of bringing hip-hop theater to NYU.
    “Hip-hop culture, and by extension hip-hop theater, inherently explores issues of class, race, ethnicity, culture, spirituality, and identity, all vitally important topics within multicultural affairs,” she says.
    Founded in 2000, the Hip-Hop Theater Festival invigorates the fields of theater and hip-hop by nurturing the creation of innovative work within the hip-hop aesthetic, presenting artists whose work addresses the issues relevant to the hip-hop generation, and serving young, urban communities through outreach and education. The festival is held in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.  
    For a complete schedule of performances and programming, visit www.hhtf.org