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Winter Festival Of One-Act Plays Takes Stage At Nyack Center

NYACK, N.Y. -- Hip-hop Shakespeare with rapper The Sonnet Man, Devon Glover will be a featured at the Winter Festival of one-act plays presented by the Children's Shakespeare Theatre at the Nyack Center on Saturday, Jan. 9.

The Children's Shakespeare Theatre will offer its Winter Festival at the Nyack Center on Jan. 9.

The Children's Shakespeare Theatre will offer its Winter Festival at the Nyack Center on Jan. 9.

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The Sonnet Man will perform at 4 p.m.

He will rap Shakespeare-themed songs to kick off the afternoon sessions of the festival, an all-day event that features works by Moliere, Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. 

Four directors and 38 young actors will tell stories of love, disguise and trickery in a performance of four plays, along with other concurrent events and vendors throughout the day. 

Devon Glover, of Brooklyn, is a rapper, artist, writer and teacher. 

He sets Shakespeare’s sonnets to hip-hop as a modern-day Sonnet Man, singing sonnets as originally written and then again with his own unique interpretation on Shakespeare's language in today’s spoken word. 

Click here for more information about The Sonnet Man.

The 4 p.m. performance is for audiences of all ages.

Tickets are $20 by email or by calling 347-331-3813.

The Winter Festival will run 11 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Nyack Center on Depew Avenue.

Click here for more information about the Children's Shakespeare Theatre Winter Festival.

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