Season Announcement
Director Kenny Leon and True Colors Theatre Company are proud to announce the 2018-2019 season – “Moments Make The Movement.” The four productions of this 16th season are woven together by a thread of radical change; at the societal, organizational and familial levels. The season opens in September with Nina Simone: Four Women by Christina Ham. This “play with music” explores Nina Simone’s shift from popular R&B singer to vocal activist, following the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth […]
Nina Simone: Four Women
September 16, 1963. The day after the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama led Nina Simone to shift her career from artist to artist-activist as she believed, “An artist’s responsibility is to reflect the times.” Nina Simone: Four Women uses the framework of one of her most blistering songs “Four Women” to give voice to a group of women who suffered from self-hatred due to the different […]
Skeleton Crew
At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she’ll support herself and her unborn child, Faye has to decide how and where she’ll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dreams […]
The First Noel
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Synopsis
Set in 1980’s Harlem, The First Noel is a musical that follows three generations of a family forever changed by the tragic loss of a loved one, when an unexpected visit reveals some long-absent Christmas joy. It is a story about how a community is healed, one family at a time, as […]
King Hedley II by August Wilson
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Advisory: Contains Adult Language and Situations
Run Time: 2.5 Hours plus 1 intermission
SYNOPSIS
Its 1980’s inner city Pittsburgh, King Hedley II is an ex-con peddling stolen refrigerators to save up for his own business and hopefully a new life. Desperately fighting to overcome his record, his family and a world that’s against him, King spends his time trying to plant […]
Holler if Ya Hear Me
Advisory: Contains Adult Language and Situations
Run Time: 2 Hours, plus 15 in intermission | Download the playbill
*PLEASE NOTE THAT EVENING SHOWS BEGIN AT 7:30 PM
An American musical inspired by the music and lyrics of late rapper Tupac Shakur. The music of one of the 20th century’s most influential and culturally prominent voices comes to life in this non-biographical musical about friendship, family, revenge, change, and hope. ‘On […]
