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Black Community Day, Playwright Talkback
Sunday May 19, at 3pm
at Luna Stage’s QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
Luna Stage is honored to announce a Black Community
Performance of Queen of the Night by travis tate on Sunday
May 19 at 3pm, to be followed by a conversation with the
playwright.
The special afternoon performance is focused on
celebrating and amplifying Black voices and access to Black
theatre for all audiences. The performance will be followed by a
conversation with playwright travis tate.
Billed as “a story of queerness, Blackness,
masculinity and the challenges of camping with family,” Queen of the Night is an honest, funny,
heartwarming play exploring themes of family, history, and
reconciliation. The play runs Thursdays-Sundays May 16-June 9 on
Luna’s MainStage.
tate (they/them) is a queer playwright, poet, and
performer living in Brooklyn. Their poems have been published in
Southern Humanities Review, Vassar Review, The Boiler, among
other publications. Their first collection of poetry, Maiden, was
published in June 2020 by VA Press. Their first collection of
short stories, UNTENABLE MYSTIC CHARM, will be published by
Stanchion Book Press in early 2024. Their plays have been
produced by Dorset Theatre Festival, Victory Gardens, Theatre
East and Breaking The Binary Theatre Festival. They earned their
MFA in playwriting and poetry from Michener Center for Writers at
the University of Texas at Austin.
Save $10 with code BLKCOM off full-price tickets
(regularly $40.) Luna’s sliding scale ticket options will also be
available.
As Luna Stage describes the production, “Ty would prefer to go ‘glamping’ but his father has taken
him to the middle of the woods. The night before Ty’s mom
remarries, the two men fight bears, their past, and one another
in playwright travis tate’s exploration of masculinity and
queerness through the lens of multi-generational Blackness.”
Queen of the Night plays
Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at
8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 3:00 p.m., with an additional
matinee on Thursday, May 23 at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are $10-$40 at lunastage.org/queen.
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ABOUT LUNA STAGE:
LUNA STAGE is a professional regional theatre
dedicated to developing and producing vibrant plays about local
and global experiences. Firmly rooted in New Jersey's Valley Arts
District – a crossroads of cultures – Luna brings its communities
together for artistic events that spark conversations and create
understanding and change.
Luna received the JerseyArts People's Choice Award
for Favorite Small Theatre in New Jersey and has contributed to
the development of over 100 new works for the stage, many of
which premiered at Luna and have gone on to be produced in New
York, regionally, and internationally.
As producer, innovator, and educator, Luna is
dedicated to eliminating barriers to participation and allowing
all community members to nurture their own creativity and vision.
Luna offers classes for children and adults, as well as
opportunities for early-career and established theatre artists to
develop and incubate new work.
All programs at Luna are pay-what-you-choose to
support equity and access to professional arts experiences in our
region.
For more information, visit lunastage.org or email lunastage.org.
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