Category: theater

  • Off the Top, Rap Comedy Theater in NYC

    Off the Top, Rap Comedy Theater in NYC

    The new rap comedy on the science of improvisation, Off the Top, is the latest brain child of hip-hop performer MC Baba Brinkman and neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD. What do people really know about the human brain’s activity when we create something new, specifically, do improv? Quite a lot, it turns out, thanks to this…

  • Hip Hop Spotlight on Climate Chaos With Baba Brinkman

    Baba Brinkman’s new hip hop comedy Rap Guide to Climate Chaos fires up the audience with rhyming truths.

  • Rap Remix of Great Classics with Baba Brinkman

    Rap artist Baba Brinkman performs great classics remixed, in his theater show Canterbury Tales Remixed. This weekend the show is in New York City, and it tours internationally. Whether experiencing the show as a purist or as a tourist, the performance rocks with vitality. The monologues begin with tales of the hero Gilgamesh from ancient…

  • Creating an Antagonist – Lessons from the Theater

    Creating a character I know and love is one of the best parts of writing stories, as a book author. To understand a new character, I use a Script Work Outline, borrowed from theater studies. Script work requires actors to go deeper than the lines in a script, and to create a background life for…

  • Passion for Storytelling and Rap – The Canterbury Tales Remixed

    Somewhere between the classics and rap, is Baba Brinkman’s raw performance art, “The Canterbury Tales Remixed”. Not your school days’ version of Chaucer’s verse and other epic tales, these new hip-hop rhymes changed the way I think about English literature. The show premiered in New York City at the Soho Playhouse. Now, Baba Brinkman is bringing The Canterbury Tales…