IN THE EVENING BY THE MOONLIGHT
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE PRESENTS
a new play written by Traci Tolmaire and co-created & directed by Margo Hall
We're thrilled to present the world premiere of IN THE EVENING BY THE MOONLIGHT, a new play uplifting the revolutionary playwright behind our company’s name. Set in her Waverly Place flat in New York, legendary writer Lorraine Hansberry shares a rowdy, scotch-filled evening debating, confronting fears, and celebrating the hope of revolution with the incomparable musician Nina Simone and the prolific writer James Baldwin.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE AND SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE PRESENT
[hieroglyph]
By Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by Margo Hall
Streaming on-demand March 13 - April 3
Involuntarily displaced in Chicago two months post-Katrina, 13-year-old Davis wrestles with the cultural landscape of a new city and school community while secretly coping with the PTSD of an assault at the Superdome. With her mother still in New Orleans committed to the fight for Black land ownership and her father committed to starting a new life in the Midwest, divorce threatens to further separate a family already torn apart. Will Davis be left hanging in the balance? [hieroglyph] traverses the intersection of environmental racism, sexual violence, and displacement, examining the psychological effects of a state-sanctioned man-made disaster on the most vulnerable members of the Katrina diaspora.
MARGO HALL
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF
AS NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has announced the appointment of Bay Area theatre titan Margo Hall as its new Artistic Director. An award-winning actor, director, playwright, and educator, Hall has been a leading presence in the Bay Area theatre community for more than 30 years. The first female Artistic Director of the theatre named for the trailblazing Black female playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, Hall takes the helm of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre at a moment where artists of color demand representation and change in the American Theatre.
Photo credit: Lisa Keating
Past Productions
Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
An audio play presented with Z Space
Directed by Jan Hunter
May 31 - June 18, 2021
[hieroglyph]
by Ericka Dickerson-Despenza
Co-produced by San Francisco Playhouse
Directed by Margo Hall
March 13 - April 3, 2021
On-demand streaming production
Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Jan Hunter
March 13 - 29, 2020
Buriel Clay Theater
Single Black Female
Oct. 25th - Nov. 10th
by Lisa B. Thompson
Directed by Aejay Mitchell
The Urban Retreat
by A. Zell Williams
March 23 - April 6, 2019
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