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
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.
