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The Nuyorican Poets Theater remains a vibrant contributor to the city's culture.
-Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times
Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival By Miguel Algarin & Lois Griffith
Commentary and scripts of the earliest theater at the Nuyorican including plays by Wesley Brown, Miguel Pinero, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, and Pedro Pietri.
Nuyorican Theater Reviews
Life During Wartime (by Wesley Brown) has the energy and intelligence of a crackling debate in which many superimposed voices create a larger, more complex picture of strained social fabric...Drives into the heart of one of the most explosive issues a contemporary playcould hope to confront.
-Stephen Holden, The New York Times
Shango de Ima (by Pepe Carril), described as a Yoruba mystery play being a ritual celebration of the seven African Orishas, (is) now being given a brilliantly orchestrated staging at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
-Clive Barnes, New York Post
This modest one-man show (Monk by Laurence Holder), with its strong, accomplished writing and acting captures the rhythm and feel of the 1940s and 50s jazz scene even more vividly than last season's flashy, acclaimed Broadway production Side Man (with its string of celebrity stars and all-white cast)...it ranks up there with the best...
-Lynne Polvino, Shout New York
Baraka's Primitive World leaps from its tiny stage singing, dancing, and glittering on a shoestring
-Francine Russo, Village Voice
See another version of Jesus' story on Broadway. However, Gethsemane Park offers a much more relevant, much more interesting presentation of the biblical narrrative.
-Kathryn Walat, Theater Mania.com