Blackboard Reading Series TONIGHT (NYC)

Blackboard Blackboard!
We've missed you, and it's time to see each other again!
If you've forgotten, we are a monthly reading series at the cell, devoted to Black Playwrights

Next Reading:
Monday, September 14th (TONIGHT)
7:30pm
CHERRYS
written and directed by Deborah Goodwin

September 21st
CHERRYS will be holding an invitation only taped reading with a very special cast, featuring: Leslie Uggams, Gloria Reuben, James McDaniel, Bill Cobbs and Aleksie Archer
Stay tuned for clips from those events on youtube: www.youtube.com/user/thecelltheatre

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for ELLEN CRAFT...
Monday, October 12th, Blackboard will be doing something new, and presenting this "New American Opera"
Conception, Lyrics, Libretto by: Sherry Boone Music & Libretto by: Sean Jeremy Palmer Directed by & Developed with Tamilla Woodard

ELLEN CRAFT is based on one of the most fantastical slave escapes of all time. Ellen is the offspring of a white slave-owner and a black slave. She escapes to freedom by disguising herself as a white man while her darker-skinned lover William poses as “his” slave. An “oversized impossible American Legend brought stunningly to life” (Matthew Murray, Off Broadway), ELLEN CRAFT is the story of one woman’s struggle to reconcile all parts of herself. This New American Opera is a hybrid of the epic musical with style inuences of Puccini, Sondheim and Aaron Copland.

A 20 min. talk back will follow every featured reading and 1-2 questions will be taken following each reading on Community Evenings! ~Donations greatly appreciated~ For Submission Information, E-mail: blackboardreadingseries@gmail.com

Visit our Updated website! http://www.blackboardplays.com/

Thank You for supporting THIS NEW COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS over the past year!
See you tonight!

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