New York premiere of Steel Hammer staged by SITI Company with the Bang on a Can All-Stars

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 7:30pm to Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 3:00pm

In this staged incarnation of her work Steel Hammer, 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe teams with director Anne Bogart and SITI Company to distill the discrepancies of over 200 variants of the classic ballad and legend into a theatrical post-minimalist mountain-music hybrid. Playwrights Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor provide additional texts as three singers and the Bang on a Can All-Stars—fortified with banjo, bones, jaw harp, and other Appalachian instruments—give the folk hero a newfangled song for a new century.

Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater
651 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11217