Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America

• Featuring Judith Sloan
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• $12 advance/$15 door/$10 groups of 10 or more
• As immigration policy is being hotly debated around the country in terms of national and cultural security, Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America presents the very human stories of why immigrants and refugees have migrated to the US and what their experiences have been since they came here pre- and post-9/11. Based on Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan’s critically acclaimed book, actor and writer Judith Sloan “channels” many of the people that the couple interviewed on their three-year journey around the world through the borough of Queens. The performance is illuminated by projections of Lehrer’s stunning photographs of the subjects, objects they have carried with them from home to home, and landscapes and maps, along with an original soundtrack of music, sounds and voices, including Sloan’s audio mixes, music by Scott Johnson and Gogol Bordello. “Crossing the BLVD is a whirlwind tour and love poem of what has often been called the most racially and ethnically diverse county in America. In the tradition of the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, Ms. Sloan performs “Crossing the BLVD” adopting the personae (and respectfully mimicking the accents) of the varied immigrants whose stories are in the book... The New York Times, City Room Blog, Sewell Chan