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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
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 37th. 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.
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Marjorie A. Moon, Executive Director
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October 24 to December 21, 2008
Written by Anne L. Thompson-Scretching
Directed by Avan
FEATURING
Jackie Alexander | Patrick J. Mitchell
Ivan H. Moore | Nathan Purdee
Four Men on a Couch is a comedy-drama about three friends dumped by their girlfriends – on the same night – who arrive on the doorstep of another friend whose wife has recently left him with three chairs, a table and a couch.
A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD COMEDY DRAMA
RECOMMENDED FOR PATRONS 14 AND OLDER DUE TO STRONG LANGUAGE
Thurs. 8 pm $15 • Fri. 8 pm $20
Sat. 3 pm & 8 pm $23 • Sun. 4 pm $23
Seniors 65 and over and children 15 and younger
pay $12.00 at any show
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AT 1360 FULTON ST. $7.00
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October 24 to December 21, 2008
Written by Anne L. Thompson-Scretching
Directed by Avan
Four Men on a Couch is a comedy-drama about three friends dumped by their girlfriends – on the same night – who arrive on the doorstep of another friend whose wife has recently left him with three chairs, a table and a couch.
A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD COMEDY DRAMA
RECOMMENDED FOR PATRONS 14 AND OLDER DUE TO STRONG LANGUAGE
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Featuring Black Spectrum Theatre Company
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Written by Carl Clay
Directed by Passion
'Twas the Night Before Kwanzaa is a holiday fantasy for the entire family about three newly hired African-American elves who convince Santa Claus to change his travel route so they all end up in Kwanzaaland. Funny, educational and highly entertaining!
FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
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World Premiere!
February 19 to March 22, 2009
Written and Directed by Jackie Alexander
Author of the Critically Acclaimed BHT Hits
The Desire and Birthright
In The High Priestess of Dark Alley, a meddling matriarch arrives at her daughter’s home, unannounced, with plans to repair her daughter’s marriage that ended in divorce. Undaunted by her daughter’s “appalling” new love interest, our matriarch puts her plan in motion. As events unfold, we discover each of the women have lived shackled lives in their own way with misguided values, prejudices and superstitions.
AN INTRIGUING DRAMATIC COMEDY FOR TEENS AND OLDER
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April 30 to June 28, 2009
Written and directed by Yvette Heyliger
Nominated for the 2008 NAACP Theatre Award
“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." —Our Weekly
What Would Jesus Do?, a play with music set mainly in the Black church, is the story of a God-fearing family rocked to its core when the wife/mother learns that she may have been exposed to HIV by her husband. Devastated by secrets in her own home and blind-eye rejection of the problem in her community; she is inspired to take action when she asks, "What would Jesus do?"
COMPELLING, ENTERTAINING
RECOMMENDED FOR PATRONS 14 AND OLDER DUE TO SUBJECT MATTER
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2008-2009 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; Time Warner and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
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