Friday, August 26, 2022

Black Theatre Troupe's 2022/2023 Season



FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE
September 16-25
Book by Clarke Peters
Lyrics and Music by Louis Jordan
Directed and Choreographed by Alexander Patrick

The Valley’s favorite, rip-roaring energetic quintet of time traveling singers who all happened to be named “Moe.”. Five Guys Named Moe is the exuberant Broadway Hit that features the music of Jazz and Rock & Roll pioneer and saxophonist, Louis Jordan. Dazzling movement and other surprises invites the audience to sing, dance, have a wonderful time and return to today’s world singing.
BARBECUE
October 21 - November 6
By Robert O'Hara
Directed by Ron May

The grill is hot, the beer is chilled and the table is set for you to join a typical O’Mallery family barbecue. But when their drug-addicted sister Zippity Boom arrives strung-out and out of control, her siblings have each finally had enough of all of it - enough beer, enough whiskey and enough pills to confront her. Their wild, unplanned, drug fueled intervention sets the fire to the charcoal of this raucous and rollicking comedy that skewers all of our warped views of the "American family." 
(Adult themes and language)
BLACK NATIVITY
December 2 - 18
By Langston Hughes
Directed by Walter Belcher
Choreographed by Alexander Patrick

Since 1975, BTT audiences have enjoyed this sold out, legendary holiday event by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. It again returns to the BTT stage for a special limited engagement. This stunning new production of 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.
JOE TURNER'S
COME AND GONE
February 3 - 19
By August Wilson
Directed by Herbert Newsome

Set in 1911 Pittsburgh, this moving work chronicles Black life of that time. Each resident of a Black boardinghouse has a different relationship to their past of slavery, as well as to their urban present. August Wilson gives haunting voice to the souls of this dispossessed group of Americans at the beginning of the century. It is his epic vision, power and poetic sense that lift their stories to strange and compelling heights.
RESPECT:
THE MUSICAL
March 24 - April 9
By Dorothy Marcic
Directed and Choreographed by Patdro Harris

Combining excerpts from over 60 songs with women’s personal stories about realizing dreams, loves won and lost, and battering against glass ceilings, Respect features such period favorites as Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best FriendI Wanna Be Loved By YouAs Long As He Needs Me and Whatever Lola Wants along with such modern standards as Where the Boys AreIt Must Be Him, The Greatest Love of All and Stand by Your Man.

No comments:

Post a Comment

In order to avoid spam, comments will be moderated. Anonymous comments no longer will be allowed. If your comment is from an actual person it will be approved and posted in a timely manner.