Theater For A New Generation (Mel Williams - Artistic Director, Michael Daniel Sharp- Managing Director) presents CORNER WAR, the Openhiemer award-winning play, now available on DVD. It is a new play by Tim Dowlin and TFANG, with original hip-hop music and lyrics by Strongarm Entertainment/Roundtable. Directed by Mel Williams and based on a true story, CORNER WARS is an uncensored look at the crack cocaine trade in North Philadelphia where ordinary teenage life plays out against the extraordinary backdrop of urban violence and the struggle to survive.

Set in Philadelphia's busiest open-air crack cocaine market, "Corner Wars" follows the lives of young men and women struggling to find their piece of the American Dream. Rejected by parents and the system, buoyed by the promise of fast cash and a better life, they punch their time clocks on the street corner. When a new gang joins the hustle and siphons money from their drug operation, a showdown ensues. The tremors of murder are felt in the neighborhood.

From THE NEW YORK TIMES:

"Corner Wars", an urban drama conceived, written and performed with the earnestness and energy of the young, tells an ostensibly representative story about the street-level drug trade in Philadelphia. The content of the script, written by Tim Dowlin, is pretty familiar from television cop shows and movies about gangs, complete with a tragic conclusion involving teenagers with guns. And it takes the sympathetic, admonitory tone of an after-school special toward the excitable tough-talkers whose criminality is as culturally inevitable as, say, surfing is to the beachniks of Malibu.

Congratulations to Tim Dowlin, member of TFANG. His first play, "Corner Wars," won the Newsday Oppenheimer Award, presented annually to the most impressive work by a playwright.

Order your copy of "Corner Wars" on DVD along with the soundtrack produced by StrongArm Entertainment for just $20. Email our webmaster to order your DVD today!