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After a 2010 debut that showcased fourteen playwrights to over 3,500 satisfied patrons, the predominantly African American Philly Urban Theatre Festival (PUTF) returns on September 19th with a focus of diversity onstage.

After a 2010 debut that showcased fourteen playwrights to over 3,500 satisfied patrons, the predominantly African American Philly Urban Theatre Festival (PUTF) returns on September 19th with a focus of diversity onstage.

Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) is pleased to announce its much-anticipated ninth season will run from April 13 to April 23 at the MMAC Theater on West 60th Street in Manhattan.

Black Americans represent only 12% of the U.S population, but they account for more new HIV infections, AIDS cases, people estimated to be living with the HIV disease, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the country.

Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) is pleased to announce its much-anticipated ninth season will run from April 13 to April 23 at the MMAC Theater on West 60th Street in Manhattan.

With the 2010-2011 school year at its midway point writer/director Donja R. Love's compelling new play, The Nigga Files, takes an introspective look into the education system and inner-city youth. The Nigga Files workshopped before a sold out audience in September and was honored 1st runner up for the coveted 'Best Play' award in the inaugural Philly Urban Theatre Festival. On January 11, 2011, and for eight shows ending on the 16th, Love, in conjunction with Kash Goins of GoKash Productions, is premiering the final, revised version of The Nigga Files at The Shubin Theatre on 4th and Bainbridge in Philadelphia.

With the 2010-2011 school year at its midway point writer/director Donja R. Love's compelling new play, The Nigga Files, takes an introspective look into the education system and inner-city youth. The Nigga Files workshopped before a sold out audience in September and was honored 1st runner up for the coveted 'Best Play' award in the inaugural Philly Urban Theatre Festival. On January 11, 2011, and for eight shows ending on the 16th, Love, in conjunction with Kash Goins of GoKash Productions, is premiering the final, revised version of The Nigga Files at The Shubin Theatre on 4th and Bainbridge in Philadelphia.

The Philly Urban Theater Festival (PUTF) kicked off its inaugural season at the Adrienne Theater in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square and featured 14 theatrical works written by Kash Goins (VI Degrees and VII Deadly Sins), Tiffany Joyner (Apologies are for The Living), Race Brown (Cold), Briana Cannon (The Gentle Cycle of Dirty Laundry), Kareem Rogers (Twice Loved), Donja R. Love (The Nigga Files), Shenille Melton (When the Smoke Cleared), Cheril N. Clarke (Intimate Chaos), Jamila Capitman and Heather Thomas (Love Queens Who Suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Lee Colston (Roost), Karen Waller-Martin (Director of the only non-original piece in the festival, The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe), Tiffany Wilson (Shaking the Truth Loose), and Andre N. Jones (Verbalized Ink).

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.

The brisk, colorful autumn season is an ideal time to experience the spectrum of performances happening now at the Philly Urban Theatre Festival.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin. There was once a time that these were the names to roll easily off of the tongue when considering the contemporary African-American playwright.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin. There was once a time that these were the names to roll easily off of the tongue when considering the contemporary African-American playwright.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.