2011-12 Season
October 14-23, 2011
By Bill Harris
Clayton is a former blues singer, who never ventures out into the world that rejected him. Ivy is a woman who rejects the world of decaying Detroit. They move from animosity to friendship as they both share secrets from the old days: he conceals his struggle of faith and despair and she withholds a searing loss as they rescue each other from emotional numbness and terminal loneliness.
December 2-11, 2011
By Langston Hughes
By popular demand this legendary holiday event, by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes’, returns to the BTT stage in a stunning new production. Black Nativity is without a doubt a theatrical wonderment. A joyous company of singers, actors, dancers and musicians delivers its powerful message of joy, hope, victory and liberation. This song-play touches a special chord in the hearts of all at a very special time of the year.
January 13-22, 2012
By Pearl Cleage
On February 6, 2006, people began lining up at dawn outside of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose body lay in state in the small sanctuary. At close to midnight, the crowd has dwindled to a determined few. This lovely, image-soaked testament to the civil rights icon is seen through the eyes of five women at the end of that long line of mourners. A Song for Coretta brims with wit, personality and life-affirming energy.
February 17-26, 2012
By Keith Glover
Crixus, a fabled survivor of countless boxing matches during slavery, escapes that horror by fleeing with his friend and trainer Shadow Jack and joining the Union Army to fight against the south. “Hurricane” is the white prize-fighter touring the South during Reconstruction, playing exhibition matches against black ex-slaves to demonstrate white supremacy. His sudden and unexpected impact on Crixus’ life gives us a tragic and triumphant look at the end of slavery, the Civil War, bare knuckle boxing and race relations in Maryland just after the Civil War.
April 13-22, 2012
Conceived and Originally Directed by Sheldon Epps
Original Vocal Arrangements and Musical Direction by Chapman Roberts
Orchestrations and Additional Vocal Arrangements by Sy Johnson
The universal language of the blues wails out full and strong in Blues in the Night – a dynamite “dramatic revue” of twenty-six hot and torchy numbers that tell of the sweet, passionate and sorrowful experiences of three women. Their interweaving stories are defined through glorious songs which cover the range of this indigenous American art form, from Bessie Smith to Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Alberta Hunter, Jimmy Cox, Ida Cox and more, telling of the pain and misery of life and love and also of the dogged determination to get through it all that is the essence of the blues – good music, hard lives, and dreams that stretch on long into the night.
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