HANG TIME

THE NATIONAL TOUR

Written and Directed by Zora Howard

Three men chew the fat under an old, wide tree. In HANG TIME, we peek into the interiority – the great loves and bitter blues – of Black men in America. Setting the romantic and the macabre in sharp relief, HANG TIME invites the viewer to envisage the living Black body triumphant over the legacy of violence that it holds.

TOUR DATES

APRIL 19, 2025
Tempe, AZ ASU Gammage

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OCTOBER 9 - 12, 2025
Boston, MA ArtsEmerson

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OCTOBER 17 - 18, 2025
Chicago, IL Wirtz Center

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NOVEMBER 7 - 16, 2025
New York, NY The Apollo Theater

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SLIM
Kamal Bolden
BIRD
Julian Rozzell
BLOOD
Bryce Foley

CAST

WRITER & DIRECTOR
Zora Howard
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Beatrice Perez-Arche
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Charlie Oates
SCENIC DESIGNER
Neal Wilkinson
COSTUME DESIGNER
Dominique Fawn Hill
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Reza Behjat
SOUND DESIGNER
Megan Culley
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER
Carla Thomas
STUNT DIRECTOR
Rick Sordelet/Sordelet Inc.
SCENIC BUILDERS
Tom Carroll Scenery
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Brian Freeland

CREATIVE TEAM

“[Zora] Howard, who wrote and directed this production, certainly knows how to make an impression…[she] draws out every subtlety of her already fine-tuned dialogue….Howard writes her characters into a Möbius strip of trauma and injustice that is Black American history.”Maya Phillips, New York Times

“In terms of its words, HANG TIME by Zora Howard, is a very subtle play. Its language is rich, and the themes that its characters usher forth chime suggestively, like harsh but precisely rung bells…The play runs for only an hour, but feels dense with their reminiscences and world views, their trepidations and buried fears.” Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker

A man passionately speaking or shouting with two other men partially visible in the foreground and background.
Three men standing in a row against a black background, looking at each other with serious expressions.
A man with a beard looking at a woman with super short hair, both wearing dark clothing, against a dark background.

The National Tour of The Flea’s HANG TIME has been commissioned by ASU Cultural Affairs and its division of ASU Gammage, The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, and also supported by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance.

This project was made possible, in part, with support from the Venturous Theater Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, and with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.