The Billie Holiday Theatre - Off-Broadway Shows in Brooklyn, New York

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"...the Billie Holiday is both a neighborhood jewel and one of the nation's premier black playhouses."
—Daily News, October 12, 1999

"A gem in the Brooklyn community."
—Our Time Press, December, 2003

"A true Brooklyn landmark."
—Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President
GO Brooklyn, October 29, 2005

Welcome to the The Billie Holiday Theatre's 2009-20010 Season

Serving some 30,000 people annually for more than 30 years, the AUDELCO and Obie award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre has garnered a well-earned reputation for providing outstanding professional theater productions at affordable prices. The 200 seat theater has a 40 week season and serves as a training ground for aspiring theater professionals. It has nurtured the careers of Oscar-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson; multitalented performer, choreographer and director Debbie Allen; television, film and theater producer Samm-Art Williams; musician, composer and playwright Weldon Irvine (TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK); actress Tichina Arnold ( Fox Network's Martin and CW's Everybody Hates Chris ); award-winning scenic designer Felix Cochren and many others. The Theatre is the original New York producer of many hit shows, including LOTTO; INACENT BLACK AND THE FIVE BROTHERS, which went on to Broadway and starred Melba Moore; ONE MONKEY DON'T STOP NO SHOW, which toured nationally with Kim Fields and Ted Lange and the musical, OVER FORTY.

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Welcome to our current season, the Billie Holiday Theatre's 38th. Below, you will find descriptions of the excitement we have planned for you. Please revisit our site soon for more information about new productions. To receive e-mail and postal mail updates, sign-up at our mailing list below. We thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,
Marjorie A. Moon, Executive Director

Marjorie Moon, Producer

October 23 to December 20, 2009
Written and Directed by Yvette Heyliger
Original Music Composed and Arranged by Larry Farrow

“Yvette Heyliger’s heartfelt dramedy is joyful and sincere, including colorful characters we can care for. The humor is of the belly-laugh variety. Her instincts for comic relief are genius.” —Backstage West

“Heyliger scores a dozen resonant points about everything from black pride to ... Biblical interpretations while calling upon the church to take the lead in healing this sickness, as it did for slavery and segregation.”—LA Weekly

"Throughout the dramatic piece, there is soothing and soulful music composed by Larry Farrow, most appealing of which is the closing song, titled after the play. Its rhythmic and melodic arrangement leaves the audience singing and thinking about what Jesus would do." —Our Weekly

What Would Jesus Do? is an interfaith, intergenerational play with music about family, church, sex and HIV.

Special matinees added for Friday, November 20 and Thursday, December 3 at 12:30 p.m. General admission tickets $15.00 for these shows only.

COMPELLING, ENTERTAINING DRAMA

Seniors 65 and over and children 15 and younger
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Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc. Ticket Prices 2009-2010 Season
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Ticket Prices	1-29 Tickets	30-49 Tickets	50-100 Tickets	101-150 Tickets	151-200 Tickets
Thursday 8 PM	$15	$14	$13	$12	$11
Friday 8 PM	$20	$19	$18	$16	$15
Saturday All Shows	$23	$21	$19	$18	$17
Sunday All Shows	$23	$21	$19	$18	$17
Mother's Day All Shows	$25	Group rates and discounts not available for Mother's Day shows.
TAKE AN ADDITIONAL $3.00 OFF PER TICKET (MINIMUM PURCHASE 30 TICKETS) WHEN YOU PAY IN FULL (EXCEPT FOR MOTHER'S DAY).
CHILDREN 15 and younger, SENORS 65 and older: 12.00 ON ANY AVAILABLE SHOW
The Billie Holiday Theatre is handicapped accessible. Please let us know at the time you book your tickets if you will require assistance or a wheelchair location so that we may prepare for your visit.

Marjorie Moon, Producer
	October 23 to December 20, 2009 Written and Directed by Yvette Heyliger Original Music Composed and Arranged by Larry Farrow What Would Jesus Do? is an interfaith, intergenerational play with music about family, church, sex and HIV. COMPELLING, ENTERTAINING DRAMA
	Information on the second and third shows of the 38th season will be posted shortly. Visit our website, or join our mailing list below to keep informed and receive news, updates and special offers.

The 2009-2010 season is supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; NYC Council Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations, Domenic Recchia, Chair; also supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

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The Billie Holiday Theatre in the News:
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Restoration Sister Sites: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Bed-Stuy Gateway and the Fulton-Nostrand Revitalization Project

Black Theater: African American Female Playwrights Mailing List | Black Theatre Companies
Women of Color, Women of Words | The Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop | Doollee
National Black Theatre Festival | Drama Mamas: Insights and Reflections of Black Women Directors
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Limited Run - Broadhurst Theatre | African American Playwrights Exchange
Black Spectrum Theatre

Billie Holiday Playwrights: Jackie Alexander | John Shévin Foster | Yvette Heyliger | Anne L. Thompson-Scretching

Black Literature, Publishing and Booksellers: Tonya Bolden | Gumbo for the Soul
Lindamichellebaron's World of Rhythm and Rhyme | Denise Lewis Patrick
Javaka Steptoe Illustration & Fine Arts | RoRo's Rainbow Communications | University of Sankore Press

Brooklyn Life, Culture and Commerce: Hello Brooklyn: The Largest Online Directory of Brooklyn
When Brooklyn Artists Speak, Art Listens | BESAA: Bedford Stuyvesant Artists Association | Geechee Girl Natural Body Care

Caribbean American Life and Culture: The Caribbean Voice | New York Carnaval

Professional Services: Design Images & Illuminations | Printing 1-800 Postcards

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