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NEWS & EVENTS>Newletters>Spring 2005

Spring 2005 Newsletter

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We continue this season's theme of "clashing cultures" with an original New York tale. There Goes The Neighborhood offers a humorous insider's look at the phenomenon of gentrification in New York City.
Based on interviews conducted by performer Deanna Pacelli and writer Mari Brown over a two-year period, the play uses the diverse voices of ten very different neighbors - including an
"I looked at them and said:
Who are you? And what the hell is my facade!?!"
Italian deli owner, a Latina teenager, a gay yuppie activist, a hip-hop DJ and an Asian nightclub owner - to explain how a once Italian working-class community went from "crack to baguettes" in less than a decade.
The subject of a New York Times feature article, There Goes The Neighborhood is a comic testament to the endurance of community.