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"A must see!" -me and my muse

"Totally Awesome! " -"New York Times reader reviews

"A funky assault on the senses! Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death doesn't so much get performed at the club T New York, as erupt, like some sort of streetwise lava flow."
  -Phoebe Hoban,
   The New York Times
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“The real deal…The cast is amazing…A wild theatrical experience you won't soon forget.”
  -David Cote,
   NY1
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"Van Peebles [is a] cultural icon... A tradition-busting spoken word musical... an innovative precursor to rap and slam poetry... Refreshingly raw...[a] sprawling collage of black street life... arresting [and] urgent...chilling, potent [and] bracing"
  -David Rooney,
  Variety

"Startlingly fresh... CTH reconfirms itself as one of the gutsiest and physically fearless groups around"
  -David Cote,
   Time Out NY

"Still vital... Explosively directed [by] Alfred Preisser... Outstanding cast... If "renaissance" means "rebirth" then the Ain't Supposed revival represents a slice of present-day Harlem Renaissance"
  -David Finkle,
  The Village Voice

"Van Peebles' "tunes from blackness" erupt from anywhere and everywhere, surprising us, catching us off guard, keeping us riveted and engaged... [a] challenging, ambitious, complicated work of genre-defying and barrier-breaking theatre... an authentic landmark of theatrical, cultural and social history... explodes before our eyes like a spontaneous fireworks display... a show unlike any other
  -Martin Denton,
  The New York Theatre Experience