THE LIVING WORD PROJECT, as part of the Under the Radar Festival, is pleased to announce the award-winning dramatic auteur Dahlak Brathwaite’s (Helen Hayes Award winner for Long Way Down) new hip hop concept musical, Try/Step/Trip, choreographed by Toran Moore, directed by Roberta Uno.

Inspired by Brathwaite’s own history, TRY/STEP/TRIP is a rite of passage orchestrated to save one of the justice system’s newest inductees from the ultimate plight of criminalization. Try/Step/Trip becomes a live excavation of Blackness, transformation, and the struggle to find freedom within, and beyond, the systems determined to define you.

Try/Step/Trip, will play a four-week limited engagement at The Jeffery and Paula Gural Theatre A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 W. 53rd Street New York, NY 10019.) Performances begin Thursday, January 8th, and continue through Sunday, January 25th. Opening Night is Saturday, January 10th, 2026 (8:30pm.)

Tickets begin at $35 and are available at EVENTBRITE.COM/TRY/STEP/TRIP
INSTAGRAM: @trysteptrip