BLACK
NATIVITY: A Gospel Celebration of
Christmas
Featuring Gospel Recording Artist Debra
Henderson
Musical Direction by Arvis Strickling-Jones
- Choreography by Michael Montgomery
Directed by
Stanley E. Williams
Our annual Christmas pageant and
rousing holiday gospel musical. This
toe-tapping, hand-clapping, and
soulstirring celebration lifts the spirits
of people of all backgrounds, religious
and secular alike. Each year we add new
songs, new music, new staging and
extraordinary artists. Audiences leap to
their feet each year as we "make a joyful
noise unto the Lord!"
Winner by popular
vote of the SF Bay Guardian's Best of the
Bay Award 2005.
"Black
Nativity is a forceful and rollicking
Christmas celebration and an auspicious
start to the … season."
--SF
Chronicle
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COMING
HOME by Athol Fugard
Directed by Gordon Edelstein
Presented by Berkeley
Rep in association with Lorraine Hansberry
Theatre
Time magazine calls
Athol Fugard "the greatest active
playwright in the English-speaking world."
Now South Africa's master dramatist comes
back to Berkeley Rep with a new show:
Coming Home. Ten years after
running off to the city to pursue her
dreams, Veronika returns in rags. Among
her meager belongings, she carries a
desperate secret--and determination to
plant the seeds of a new life for her son.
It's a "sad, sweet, and gently moving"
show, says the New York Times, "a
beautifully acted production directed by
Gordon Edelstein." In Coming
Home, Fugard once again confronts the
hard truths of his homeland while
celebrating the power of hope.
"As one might
expect from a writer of fierce commitment
to political and social justice,
Coming Home quietly condemns the
shameful policies of the South African
government, which failed to confront the
reality of AIDS or to offer the necessary
drugs to its impoverished citizens as they
became available, resulting in untold
thousands of unnecessary deaths. But as
always with Mr. Fugard, censure of policy
comes only through careful observation of
its human costs. Mr. Fugard doesn't need
to raise his voice, or even have Veronika
raise hers, to make his points."
--
New York
Times
Presented at Berkeley Repertory
Theatre's Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison
Street, Berkeley CA
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
Subscribers will see Coming Home as part
of their 2009-2010 Season.
MAHALIA: A Gospel
Musical by Tom Stolz
Directed by Stanley E. Williams
Relive the Civil Rights Era and the
legendary gospel artistry of Mahalia
Jackson, who rose from the Black Pearl
neighborhood of New Orleans, to become the
world's greatest gospel singer, performing
at President John F. Kennedy's
inauguration in 1961 and at the historic
March on Washington in 1963 where Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his
monumental "I Have A Dream" speech.
"Mahalia! A
Gospel Musical" is an uplifting,
spiritually exhilarating story of a soul
-- one filled with faith, joy and bursting
with song."
--
The Times-Picayune (New
Orleans)
STICK
FLY by Lydia R. Diamond
A new play by the gifted writer whose
award-winning stage adaptation of Toni
Morrison's THE BLUEST EYE thrilled LHT
Audiences in 2007. Sibling rivalry,
parental expectations and issues of race
and class are explored in this witty and
provocative play set in the toney Martha's
Vineyard, off the coast of Cape Cod.
Diamond skillfully opens a window onto the
lives of an African American upper-class
family.
"Diamond's play
combines complex characters, provocative
situations, and literate, funny dialogue
in this delicious comedy of contemporary
manners."
--
LA Weekly
"A play that
wrestles with race, class and gender by a
provocative new voice in the American
Theater."
--
New York Times
FABULATION
by Lynn Nottage
A high-powered Public Relations executive
suddenly finds herself shockingly
downwardly mobile--divorced, penniless and
pregnant--and forced to return to her
roots, the family home in the Projects. An
inspired and imaginative look at family,
pride and love by one of America's most
outstanding new playwrights, who just
received the Pulitzer Prize for her latest
play, RUINED (a harrowing reimagination of
Brecht's Mother Courage set in a civil war
torn Republic of the Congo).
"Robustly
entertaining … with punchy social
insights and the firecracker snap of
unexpected humor."
--
New York Times
