OUR
29th SEASON BLACK
NATIVITY: A Gospel Celebration of
Christmas 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. 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." Presented at Marines Memorial
Theatre
COMING
HOME by Athol
Fugard "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."
MAHALIA:
A Gospel Musical
by Tom Stolz "Mahalia!
A Gospel Musical" is an
uplifting, spiritually
exhilarating story of a soul --
one filled with faith, joy and
bursting with song."
STICK
FLY by Lydia R.
Diamond "Diamond's
play combines complex characters,
provocative situations, and
literate, funny dialogue in this
delicious comedy of contemporary
manners." "A play
that wrestles with race, class
and gender by a provocative new
voice in the American
Theater."
FABULATION
by Lynn Nottage "Robustly
entertaining … with punchy
social insights and the
firecracker snap of unexpected
humor."
A FIFTH
TITLE To Be
Announced
(season
subject to change) More
info coming soon! Lorraine
Hansberry Theatre |
Box
Office |
Season
2009-2010
LIMITED RUN! Dec. 16 - 27
ONLY!
Featuring Gospel Recording Artist
Debra Henderson
Musical Direction by Arvis Strickling-Jones
- Choreography by Michael
Montgomery
Directed by Stanley E.
Williams
Audiences leap to their feet each
year as we
"make a joyful noise unto the
Lord!"
--SF
Chronicle
609 Sutter Street (at Mason) - Union Sq -
San Francisco
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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.
--
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.
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.
--
The Times-Picayune (New
Orleans)
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.
--
LA Weekly
--
New York Times
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).
--
New York Times
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