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Monkey Don't Stop No Show, by
Don Evans
Previews:
June 16 – June 20, 2007
Runs: June 21 – July 15, 2007
(SOLD OUT)
The
action takes place in suburban Philadelphia, where the Reverend
Avery Harrison, a Baptist preacher and a host of other wacky individuals
including his, dim-witted wife, adventurous teenaged-son, “countrified”
niece, her macho fiancé and a local “celebrity”
named “Lil Bits.” There is never a dull moment as
this crazy crew gets mixed in everything you could imagine.
Rating:
PG-13
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Past
Shows
Christmas
is Comin' Uptown, (Musical) by Phillip Rose & Peter
Udell
Previews:
Nov. 18 – Nov. 22, 2006
Runs: Nov. 24 – Dec. 31, 2007
The
traditional story of “A Christmas Carol” gets a jazzy
and colorful makeover! In this version, Scrooge is a Harlem slumlord
who is just about to foreclose on a tenement house and a church
when a surprise visit from an “old friend” and some
groovy ghosts that makes him reconsider.
Rating:
General Audiences
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Ready, (Musical)
By Joe Plummer
Previews:
Sept.
23 –
Sept.
27, 2006
Runs: Sept. 28 – Oct. 22, 2006
Backstage
show-biz saga of a “old school” singing group named
the “Doves” that give us a look at all of the frustration
and anxiety of a singing group that struggles amongst themselves,
backstage and in private, yet pulls it all together for their
big comeback show.
Rating:
PG-17 |
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Waiting
to be Invited, by S.M. Shephard-Massat
Previews:
Jan. 27 – Jan. 31, 2007
Runs: Feb. 1 – Feb. 25, 2007
It’s
the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia and four middle-aged black
women, co-workers from a local doll factory, travel by city bus
to a “Whites Only” eating establishment inside a downtown
Atlanta department store. Their purpose is to “test”
their newly acquired civil rights handed down by the Supreme Court
outlawing segregation in restaurants.
Rating:
General audiences.
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Turner's Come and Gone, by
August Wilson
Previews:
Mar. 10 – Mar. 14, 2007
Runs: Mar. 15 - Apr. 8, 2007
Set
in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911 and written by
great American playwright August Wilson. This play revolves around
the denizens who occupy this post-slavery boarding house and “gives
haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed.”
Rating:
PG-13
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Raisin in the Sun, by
Lorraine Hansberry
Previews:
Apr. 28 – May 2, 2007
Runs: May
3 –
May
27, 2007
Pivotal
play in the history of the American Black theatre that is set
in Chicago's South Side during the 1950s. The story revolves around
the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of
the Younger family. This powerful drama is built on sacrifice,
heartbreak, trust, love and the family’s heroic struggle
to stay together in the face of a racist, money-driven society.
Rating:
General Audiences
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