Black Rep 2008-2009 Touring Company
Professional Touring Company teaches, tours and performs for young people more than 170 times a year for schools, community centers, corporations, churches and other organizations in St. Louis and throughout the Midwest region.
PORCH LIES
written by award-winning local author, Patricia C. McKissack
Tales filled with humor and exaggeration, master storyteller Patricia McKissack transports us to the front porch - a place where lightening bugs flash, lemonade is poured and tales about slicksters-tricksters are an every night treat.
Grades KG - 5th
STAMPING, SHOUTING, AND SINGING HOME
written by Lisa Evans
12 year old Lizzie tells us her story of life in the Deep South in the 1950s in this inspirational and uplifting tale of a families' struggle in a world on the verge of change.
Grades 6th – 12th
JOSEPHINE’S ..MAGINATION
written by Arnold Dobrin
This vivid, colorful and entertaining story is of Josephine, a Haitian child that creates a doll from materials used in her mother's broom-making business, all in her imagination of course.
Grades Kg – 5th
THE STRONG MEN
written by Sterling A. Brown
This choreo-poem displays the powerful voices and delicate humor of African Americans who have made major contributions to American history. The Black Rep brings to vivid life some of the verses, which show how poetry can be spoken, sung and danced, and how poetry can be a window to the self and to our world.
Grades 7th – 12th
To book a Touring Production for your school or site contact our Education and Community Programs at 314.534.3807
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Upcoming
Main Stage Season
@ Grandel Theatre
SARAFINA! By Mbongeni Ngema
September 3 - September 14, 2008 @ Edison Theatre, on the campus of Washington University
September 19 - September 21, 2008 @ Orthwein Theatre, on the campus of MICDS
The Black Rep is honored to bring the critically acclaimed, FIVE time Tony nominated musical, Sarafina! back this fall! If you missed it the first time or just need to be moved again, come experience the pain and joys from the perspectives of the children of South Africa during the 1976 Soweto Riots. Guaranteed to leave you breathless, stunned and captivated!!!!
TELL ME SOMETHIN' GOOD Conceived by Ron Himes
January 7, 2009 - February 8, 2009 @ Grandel Theatre
The Black Rep's much-loved musical revue returns to open Season 32! If shouts of "alrighty then," "go ahead now," and "you better sing" are any indication of this crowd pleasing non-stop nostalgic trip through the history of R&B music, you'd better get your tickets now - you don't want to miss it! T..M.S.G. features more than 60 songs from doo-wop to hip-hop. "About as much fun as you can have with your clothes on." Harry Weber - The RFT
A SONG FOR CORETTA By Pearl Cleage
February 18, 2009 - March 15, 2009 @ The Grandel Theatre
Inspired by the long line of mourners who came by Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the play introduces five fictional African-American women, aged 17 to 57, waiting in the rain to say their good-byes. The play premiered at Spelman College in 2007 under the direction of Crystal Dickinson.
MY SECRET LANGUAGE OF WISHES By Cori Thomas
March 25, 2009 - April 19, 2009 @ The Grandel Theatre
Two women (1 white and 1 black) battle to adopt a disabled black teenager.
IN THE CONTINUUM By Nikkole Salter & Danai Gurira
April 29, 2009 - May 17, 2009 @ The Grandel Theatre
The play takes place over a 48-hour period in which both protagonists, living continents apart, discover that the men in their lives have infected them with HIV. Each goes on a personal journey, encountering various characters and cultural bias, as they try to come to grips with their diagnosis and sense of isolation.
BLUES IN THE NIGHT By Sheldon Epps
May 27, 2009 - June 28, 2009 @ The Grandel Theatre
Set in a rundown Chicago hotel in 1938, this dialogue-free show focuses on three women's relationships with the same snake of a man. Their interweaving stories told through the torch songs and blues of Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Gordon Jenkins, and Alberta Hunter, among others.
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