Culture Project

Lawrence Wright – arguably the man who knows more about Al-Qaeda than any other American – brings his universally acclaimed The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (a national best seller and one of the The New York Times Book Review's "Top 10 Books of 2006") to the stage in My Trip To Al-Qaeda. This unique production uses facts, figures, and PowerPoint to weave the story of Al-Qaeda's rise into a compelling, dramatic, and unquestionably timely story.

Culture Project stands with activist scholar Howard Zinn, asserting that our nation's problem is not civil disobedience, but civil obedience. At a time when voices of dissent have been relegated to “free speech zones” and diminished in the mainstream media, Rebel Voices brings to life inspirational and challenging stories of protest from U.S. history – and today. The play seeks to combat hopelessness by igniting the forces responsible for arousing change and celebrating the indomitable human spirit.

Set in the summer of 2001, Till the Break of Dawn, a new play written and directed by Danny Hoch, in association with Hip-Hop Theater Festival, chronicles a group of activists - teachers and artists - who attend a hip hop festival in Havana and find there struggling Cubans, global Hip Hip youths, and even a Black Panther in exile - a woman who challenges (and ultimately strengthens) the New Yorkers' commitments to activism and to each other.

Dan Hoyle tells the comic and profound story of Nigeria's oil madness in Tings Dey Happen, based on Hoyle's year in Nigeria as a Fulbright Scholar. Media-savvy warlords, pacifist militants, Africanized Texas oilmen, and prostitutes turned anti-Chevron activists confront the audience with their stories of survival on the West African Oil Frontier. Already supplying 10% of American oil, Nigeria and its surrounding Gulf of Guinea region has been targeted as the "new Middle East" of oil security. However, militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta are blowing up pipelines, warlords are threatening rebellion, and oil company employees are being kidnapped with alarming frequency...

First launched in 1996, Women Center Stage (WCS) is Culture Project’s banner initiative committed to supporting and vigorously promoting the work of women artists, and celebrating the unique contribution of women to social justice and human rights. The cornerstone of WCS is the annual Women Center Stage Festival, a dynamic and diverse laboratory for works in progress from women theater artists at all levels of their careers.

Iranian-American comedian Negin Farsad brings sexy back to Culture Project in a weekly night of stand-up comedy. She'll exploit her own Mid-East background as frequently as possible and introduce her favorite comedians of (hilariously) marginalized descent.