2022 REMAINING SHOWS ...
HAPPY ENDING and DAY OF ABSENCE
TWO ONE ACTS
by Douglas Turner Ward
(Social Comedy)
January 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 2022
HAPPY ENDING
Directed by Isaiah Evans
Happy Ending is a winner of the coveted Vernon Rice and Obie Awards. A long-run Off-Broadway hit filled with sharp, satiric thrusts, the play reports hilariously on the plight of two black domestics whose white employers are on the verge of divorce thereby threatening a cutoff in the household graft which has brought considerable luxury to their lives. You will see "Laughter is a powerful weapon".
DAY OF ABSENCE
Directed by Marc Stevens
DAY OF ABSENCE is a satire about an imaginary Southern town where all the black people have suddenly disappeared. The only ones left are sick and lying in hospital beds, refusing to get well. Infants are crying because they are being tended to by strange parents. The Mayor pleads for the President, Governor, and the NAACP to send him "a jackpot of jigaboos". On a nationwide radio network he calls on the blacks, wherever they are, to come back. What happens next is hilarious but the suggestion is strong that things will never quite be the same again.
January 8th and 9th shows canceled due to cast member covid exposure away from theater
WHEN THE CHICKENS CAME HOME TO ROOST
by Laurence Holder
(Drama)
February 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 26, 26, 27, 2022
Malcolm X confronts Elijah Muhammad about the latter's infidelity, but more generally about the meaning of the struggle for human rights in the twentieth century. For mature audiences.
SUNSET BABY
by
Dominique Morisseau
Kenyatta Shakur is alone. His wife has died, and now this former Black Revoluntionary and political prisoner is desperate to reconnect with his daughter, Nina. His most challenging revolution of all fatherhood
March 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, April 1, 2, 3, 2022
THE BUTLER DID IT, AGAIN
by TIM KELLY
(Comedy Mystery)
April 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, May 1, 6, 7, 8, 2022
Written by the "master of the outrageous comedy mysteries,"
this is a muchh-requested follow-u[ to the ever popular "The Butler Did It". Publisher and socialite, indomitable Miss Maple rents a plantation house, complete with menacing alligator, in the frightening swamp land of Louisiana. Whe wants to introduce her latest literary discovery, Ruth Dice, who has written a first novel entitled "Conversations with a Ghoul. The fun begins as you try to keep track of who's who and what's what.
AIN'T THAT THE GOSPEL TRUTH
Conceived and Directed
by Katrina Y. Jones
(A Gospel Event)
Just sit down in your comfort chair and turn on the radio for your spiritual medicine. The radio show, "Ain't That The Gospel Truth". Come get filled up and rejoice
May 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 2022
FLOWERS FOR
PHYLLIS
(Musical)
Conceived and Directed by
by Randolph Smith
Backed by popular demand is this spellbinding story of Phyllis Hyman and her musical journey whil trying to survive. A love letter to Phyllis enacted by Kenyatta Hardison. Come, sing laugh and cry while on this journey.
June 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 2022