In honor of National Poetry Month, YoungArts will present Outside the Box: The Langston Hughes Project, a multimedia concert performance of Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz, on April 18. Directed by YoungArts Master Teacher Ron McCurdy, this epic jazz poem suite in music and verse about the struggle for artistic and social freedom in the ‘60s will feature McCurdy’s quartet, YoungArts Alumnus Kenyon Adams (1997 YoungArts Winner in Theater and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and special surprise guests.