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 Friend, I Wanna Be Loved By You, As Long As He Needs Me and Whatever Lola Wants along with such modern standards as Where the Boys Are, It Must Be Him, The Greatest Love of All and Stand by Your Man.

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