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January 12, 2012
In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards
Jan. 18-29, $27-$30, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, annenbergcenter.org.
Philadelphia City Paper
by A.D. Amorosi
Yo, NoLandGrab readers in the City of Brotherly Love!
A love for labor drove American theater in the 1930s (a la playwright Clifford Odets) and the Brits of the 1950s (think John Osborne) with scripts devoted to hardball union discussions, social woes and wages. Making it musical is now the job of The Civilians, a self-described "investigative theater company" dedicated to documentary-style theater. In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards, written and directed by Steven Cosson with songs by Chestnut Hill's Michael Friedman, looks at the history of the controversial Brooklyn railyards project and how it's continued to cause positive and negative reactions throughout that blue-collar area.
NoLandGrab: Mostly negative. And it's hardly just a "railyards project."
Posted by eric at January 12, 2012 11:10 AM