Liberty City at the New York Theatre Workshop

The New York Theatre Workshop has announced that Liberty City, by Jessica Blank and April Yvette Thompson, will open at the New York Theatre Workshop on 4 Mar 2008, following previews from 15 Feb and run through to 16 Mar 2008.

The production replaces the previously scheduled production of Naomi Wallace's 'Things of Dry Hours', which will now open their 2008-09 season in Jun 2008. Directed by Jessica Blank and performed by April Yvette Thompson, Liberty City is a place where people of the African Diaspora have settled; where urban and island cultures rub up against each other, and the site of Miami's infamous 1980 riots.

Enter April Yvette Thompson--a child of children of the 60's, the daughter of a Bahamian and Cuban father and an African American mother: free thinkers, movement people, and sometimes just plain poor. As the hope of the 60's and 70's gave way to the disintegration of the 80's, April's family struggled to survive and stay together. Part history, part imagination, Liberty City is her personal story that illuminates.