The Concept premiered at La MaMa and ran Off-Broadway for three years, played twice at the White House, and toured extensively with a thrilling performance at the Moscow Art Theater, where it was introduced as a true innovation to be performed on the experimental stage where Stanislavski worked. A breakthrough drama in the history of performance art in 1968, it pioneered the movement of biographical performance theater. A seminal event of the 1960's theater, this revival with hip-hop music has toured schools throughout the northeast.