Hip Hop Anansi at the Clarice, Apr 18-26

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
Hip Hop Anansi
by Eisa Davis
directed by Paige Hernandez

April 18–26, 2025
Fri, Apr 18, 2025 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 . 1:00PM: Includes ASL interpretation.
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 . 4:00PM
Fri, Apr 25, 2025 . 7:30PM: Includes an audio description.
Sat, Apr 26, 2025 . 11:00AM
The April 26 performance is free and not ticketed as part of Maryland Day 2025.

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The story of Anansi and his trickster family is put into a sleek hip hop context for Hip Hop Anansi, a modern, all-ages adaptation of a traditional Ashanti folktale. Anansi wants the Golden Fly Pie Award for Tricksterism and is not above outwitting his own family to win it. But his rhyming, break dancing, graffiti-ing children are ready to claim the prize in their own right. Paige Hernandez, Associate Artistic Director of Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, directs this new vision of a classic African folk tale as penned by the acclaimed actress, playwright and singer-songwriter Eisa Davis.

Tickets: Tickets: $25 Public, $10 Students, click here.