Hell’s Kitchen
October 24- Jan 14, 2024
The Public Theater
“In a cramped apartment hanging off the side of Times Square, 17-year-old Ali is desperate to get her piece of the New York dream. Ali’s mother is just as determined to protect her daughter from the same mistakes she made. When Ali falls for a talented young drummer, both mother and daughter must face hard truths about race, defiance, and growing up. Ali feels trapped, until the sound of a neighbor playing piano opens the door to an unexpected friendship and a radically different future.
Loosely based on Alicia Keys’ personal experiences, HELL’S KITCHEN is an unforgettable new show featuring both newly created music and the soulful, iconic songs of New York’s own Alicia Keys.”
Music & Lyrics By: Alicia Keys
Book Written By: Kristoffer Diaz
Directed By: Michael Greif
Choreography By: Camille A. Brown
Associate Choreographers: Shay Bland & Kamille Upshaw
press
“Camille A. Brown continues her meteoric impact on American theater with choreography that is breathtaking and fresh, bringing a sophisticated dance vocabulary to the streets of Hell’s Kitchen with a rigor reminiscent of Jerome Robins bringing ballet to the streets of Bunker Hill in West Side Story”.
-Oskar Eustis
"Camille A. Brown, already one of the most exciting and original choreographers working in the theater, has outdone herself by filling the stage with expressive and exceedingly well-executed dance. This cast really moves, with every moment sharp and performed full-out, like the final cut of a music video. The energy of the streets of New York feels ever-present, as every member of the cast works up a sweat reaching for their own little bit of happiness."
-Theatermania
“Camille A. Brown’s excitingly contextual choreography, dancing.”
-The New York Times
“Brown’s athletic, celebratory, emotionally charged choreography alongside the show’s muscular and graceful ensemble (which, it’s exciting to say, is full of real bodies, all different, all charismatic, moving with true ferocity).”
-Vulture
“...damn, its singers can sing, and its dancers can dance — and Keys’s songs haven’t been streamed over 5 billion times for nothing. The man next to me was weeping by the end of the first act, and by the finale, well, I definitely had something in my eye.”
-Vulture
“...with choreography by superstar Camille A Brown”
-The Guardian
“...ecstatic dance by choreographer Camille A. Brown. Her work throughout is a joyous physical expression of the stirring music.”
-The Observer
“And the throbbing pulse is the fierce ensemble, who are full of fire when they dance Camille A. Brown’s thrilling choreography that barrels forward, suspends and releases like a subway train at rush hour."
-The New York Post
“It's Camille A. Brown’s choreography that best brings the work to life. Her work here is lively and inventively blocked, thrumming with individuality even in the show’s group numbers.”
-Theaterly
“Camille A. Brown’s dynamic choreography"
-New York Stage Review
“Camille A. Brown’s fabulous choreography supplies a welcome and impressive swagger...the choreography is so distinctive and brilliantly executed by an exceptional company of dancers that it sharpens and enlivens any scene in which it features.”
-The Daily Beast
