PUSH PARTY

June 2024

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Nia Akilah Robinson’s Push Party is a lively ensemble comedy about six Black women trying to uphold fifteen years of friendship at a post-birthing party in Harlem. All Lelo wants is for this event to go smoothly, but tensions among the group rise and then explode when an unhoused person lands in the community room. Inspired by Black women’s stories of birth and motherhood and by the joys and challenges of life in Harlem, this new play confronts the moments when friendship erodes, when hope starts to falter, when we argue until we laugh, and when Black folk see other Black folk suffering and die a little inside.

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Written by Nia Akilah Robinson . Directed by Chesray Dolpha . Set Designer | Ant Ma . Associate Set Designer | Yun Yen . Costume Designer | Patricia Marjorie . Sound Designer: Jordana Abrenica . Associate Sound Designer | Kaitlyn Trusty . Lighting Designer | Xotchil Musser . Production Stage Manager | Cassandra Gutterman-Johns . Press Representative: Emily Owens PR

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