CityParks Theater

An urban ensemble that could only have formed in New York City, Universes combines poetry and political activism, hip-hop and jazz, minute social observations and expansive philosophical themes for a unique theater experience. As described in the Village Voice, this “effervescent, racially mixed group…are as likely to kick some poetry as break out into a capella singing, or to orchestrate a vocal exercise as they are to burst into a step show…Their energy and realness is unmatchable.”

Live From The Edge is a celebration of communal creation, tracing the evolution of a culture’s poetic language from nursery rhymes to hip-hop flow.