New Play: THE CONDUCTOR

Ishmael Reed's newest play, THE CONDUCTOR  returns to Off Broadway's Theater for the New City for a second three week engagement, opening August 24th and closing Sunday, September 10th, 2023. The performances will run at 8 PM EDT Thursday through Saturday, with 3 PM EDT Sunday matinees. Tickets available at www.theaterforthenewcity.net "A brilliant work of absurdist agit-prop, [The Conductor} charges into the thorny terrain of the cultural wars raging around our public schools, a social landscape riddled with dangerous pitfalls of racism, gender bias, and class warfare."--Playthell Benjamin, Beacon “You don’t shy away from interracial conflict not being just a Black-white thing….There you are presenting a stark reality…while at the same times it’s a satire and it’s also hilarious. How you blend politics into your everyday—that’s what gives life to all your writing for me….’a good word for you:’ combat mode’. Words attack the page and explode off it!””--Bob Holman interviewing Ishmael Reed about THE CONDUCTOR in The Brooklyn Rail "The tight-knit cast, like a swinging jazz ensemble...is compelling in one of this year’s most realistic plays, on or off Broadway."--Ron Scott, Amsterdam News