Just finished an intense two month run at the
Billie Holiday Theatre appearing on stage with Jerome Preston Bates, E.L. Janie, Dianne Kirksey and Peggie Alston in Lorey Hayes' political drama
POWER PLAY directed by Marjorie Moon. The play will be included in the Lincoln Center Library's Bound Edition of the 2005 Highlights of the New York Theater Season.
I caught up with Lorey in New York at the
New Federal Theatre Marvtastic Bash for Larry Leon Hamlin, the founder, producer and artistic director of the
National Black Theatre Festival, the premier celebration of African American in the arts held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from August 1-6, 2005.
Next up for the actress/playwright is a reading of
THE DRAGONFLY TALE, a play Lorey co-wrote with Bobby Crear, at the
13th Street Repertory Company Theatre on April 24th at 4:30 in New York.
The Dragonfly Tale
Our colleagues Peggy Alston and Jerome Preston Bates from
POWERPLAY will be performing in the
Billie Holiday Theatre’s blockbuster production of Joyce Sylvester’s
FREEDA PEOPLES at the
National Black Theatre Festival, Aug. 2-4, 2005. The hilarious play, set in a church, deals with the relationships between the deacons, the trustees and the new pastor. No one is really who they seem to be in this comedy drama which will have you rolling in the aisles. Hal Williams, Marilyn Coleman, Jammie Patton, Kim Sullivan and William Williams round out the cast.
FREEDA PEOPLES Aug 2-4, 2005
3 and 8 p.m. Embassy Suites, Pavilion. Tickets $40.
Tickets are available online at www.nbtf.org, by phone, 336-723-7907, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; at the box office, 610 Coliseum Drive, at the Benton Convention Center or at the theaters before each performance.
