Downtown Urban Theater Festival Adds Kingdom Come To Lineup

Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) has added Kingdom Come written by Matthew Osceola Webster to its a much-anticipated 10th Anniversary season. The season showcases 15 theatrical works over three weeks beginning March 14, 2012. Reg E. Gaines, Tony-nominated writer of Broadway’s 1996 hit musical Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk, is back as the festival’s Artistic Director and Adrienne Kennedy, recipient of Lifetime Achievement awards from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and OBIE Awards, will be honored with the DUTF Playwright Master’s Award.

Kingdom Come is a musical about stories, memories and connections centered around the events of September 11, 2001. Led by interview-style vignettes, Kingdom Come strives to take you back to “where you were,” and challenges you to move into the future.

In 2001, DUTF was founded with the purpose to build a repertoire of new American theatre that echoes the true spirit of urban life and speaks to a whole new generation whose lives defy categorizing along conventional lines. That purpose has been realized many times over, as 100 writers have created and refined their work for the stage and thousands of inspired audience members have applauded their performances. DUTF inaugurated the festival in 2002 at HERE in SoHo to help revitalize the NYC downtown arts scene, which, at the time, was experiencing a severe downturn due to the WTC disaster. 

Tickets for DUTF 2012 go on sale early February at www.dutfnyc.com and www.HERE.org. The festival runs from March 14 to March 31, 2012 at HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Manhattan, NYC (www.HERE.org).

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