Chloë Sevigny and David Levi. Photo by Monique Carboni.

Moise Morancy and David Levi. Photo by Monique Carboni.

Sadie Scott and Chloë Sevigny. Photo by Monique Carboni.

Moise Mordancy, Daniel Sovich, Cristian DeMeo, David Levi and Chloë Sevigny. Photo by Monique Carboni.

Josh Pais, David Levi and Chloë Sevigny. Photo by Monique Carboni.

Moise Morancy and David Levi. Photo by Monique Carboni.

November 14 - December 23, 2017

Downtown Race Riot

by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld directed by Scott Elliott

About The Show

Downtown Race Riot

November 14 - December 23, 2017

by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld directed by Scott Elliott

On a hot late summer day in 1976, a mob of young men – all white except one – descended on Washington Square Park with pipes and bats, and attacked any people of color they could find. Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s Downtown Race Riot takes us back to this day, in the cramped Village apartment of Mary Shannon, a strung-out, free-wheeling single mom, as her son Pnut and his Haitian best friend Massive wrestle with their obligation to join the riot. The boys, torn between loyalty to each other and to the neighborhood, grasp for ways to keep the violence from destroying their friendship forever. A snapshot of a time not so different than today, when a new social freedom ran smack into the forces of reaction, and when the stakes were truly life and death.