The Billie Holiday Theatre - 2007-2008 Season

Birthright - A New Play by Jackie Alexander

The Billie Holiday Theatre at Restoration Plaza

Thank you for voting in the 2006-2007 BILLIES
The Billie Holiday Theatre Audience Awards

The "Billies" is a mostly fun but partly serious poll
that gives our valued audience a chance to talk back to us.

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The Billie Holiday Theatre
Marjorie Moon, Producer

"Sassy Mamas will definitely have you laughing out loud."

—Linda Armstrong, Amsterdam News

Read our audience comments on Zerve.com

October 27 to December 23, 2007
Written by Celeste Bedford Walker
Directed by Marjorie Moon

FEATURING: Yaa Asantewa | Buena Batiste
Lauren Davis | Kaci M. Fannin | D. C. Lewis
Cameron Miller | Jahi-Kassa Taquara

Celeste Bedford Walker, author of the longtime favorite megahit musical Over Forty, and the hilarious comedy Reunion in Bartersville, brings us a new comedy called Sassy Mamas. Sassy Mamas is about three women of substance and a certain age who decide to flip the script on gender stereotypes by pursuing younger men. Ms. Walker’s shows, always fan favorites, promise sidesplitting laughter.

A SASSY ROMANTIC COMEDY FOR TEENS AND UP

'Twas the Night Before Kwanzaa

December 28 to December 30, 2007
Written by Carl Clay
Directed by Passion

'Twas the Night Before Kwanzaa is a holiday fantasy for the entire family about 3 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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Losing the Light: A Look Inside the African American Male Perspective
February 28 to March 30, 2008
Written by John Shévin Foster
Directed by Jackie Alexander

FEATURING: Leopold Lowe | Alexander Mulzac
M. Neko Parham | C. J. Walker

Heartbreak brings four friends together to an isolated cabin where their emotions run rampant, and they learn the value of truth. Will these truths threaten their friendships or will they become stronger black men?

AN INTENSE AND PROVOCATIVE DRAMA FOR TEENS AND UP

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April 25 to June 29, 2008
Written and directed by Jackie Alexander
Author of last season's hit: The Desire

FEATURING: Victor Dickerson | Suzette Azariah Gunn
Stephen Hill | Nedra McClyde | Jaime Lincoln Smith | Susan Spain

The Reverend Etienne Thomas is a saint in the eyes of the community; privately he is a man imprisoned by his past. But when confronted with all that he has sought to escape, the carefully woven threads of his life begin to unravel with devastating consequences.

A PASSIONATE AND PROVOCATIVE DRAMA
FOR TEENS AND UP

2007-2008 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; Brooklyn Arts Council Ford Foundation Regrant; Brooklyn Arts Council JP Morgan Chase Regrant; Christ Fund of Concord Baptist Church; Time Warner; American Express and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

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