In 1940s Louisiana, Jefferson, a young illiterate Black man, is falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The plantation schoolteacher agrees to talk with the condemned man, and the two forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to defy one’s own fate. Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel of the same name. Listen Now 
Dinah Was Written by Oliver Goldstick Starring Yvette Freeman In a white fur coat, Dinah Washington sits on her luggage outside a Las Vegas hotel in 1959. The legendary star can’t enter the hotel without a white escort. So, in her inimitable style, the "Queen of the Blues" starts kicking up a fuss. Yvette Freeman reprises her Obie Award-winning performance as Washington in this passionate play featuring songs made famous by the beloved singer. Listen Now 
In the Heat of the Night By John Ball Starring Ryan Vincent Anderson, James Morrison, Michael Hammond and Kalen Harriman Based on John Ball’s novel In the Heat of the Night, which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series of the same name, this provocative play pits a Black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. Listen Now Pretty Fire
Written by and starring Charlayne Woodard In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle and triumph. Listen Now |