Our Season

2012-2013

*Annual Events

January 2013

*Heritage: A Look at America's Darker Side

January 22, 2013 @ 7:00pm

East Ballroom – University of Utah Olpin Union

FEBRUARY 2013

*THE EDWARD LEWIS BLACK THEATER FESTIVAL

Tue, Feb 19, 6:30pm, Level 4 Conference Room
The Witness
by Vivienne Franzmann
This play by Vivienne Franzmann addresses issues of guilt and dishonest actions facing a white journalist who witnesses war-zone atrocities, and adopts the child captured in one of his most famous images. The relationship between him and his daughter becomes fraught when old information about the image is unveiled. This thrilling play questions the role of journalism and our relationship with the developing world.

Wed, Feb 20, 6:30pm, Conference Rooms A&B
The Whipping Man
by Matthew Lopez
Winner of the 2011 John Gassner New Play Award from the NY Outer Critics Circle, The Whipping Man presents a challenging tale of slaves and their former master, forced to come to terms with their past relationship at the end of the American Civil War. Set during Passover, in 1865, a Jewish Confederate officer returns home to find his family missing, with only two former slaves left to care for the badly wounded man. In celebrating the freedom from bondage his ancestors experienced after centuries of slavery, Officer Caleb DeLeon is confronted with his own past of slave holding.

Sat, Feb 23, 1pm, Main Library Auditorium
Sunset Baby
by Dominique Morisseau
Sunset Baby premiered in September of 2012 and explores the challenging relationship between a former black revolutionary and his estranged daughter after his wife’s passing. The story explores generational communication breakdowns, the way social movements and their participants effect later generations, and the effects absent fathers have on young daughters.

Salt Lake City Main Library (New Partner)

SPRING 2013

BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY by Pearl Cleage

Opening May 2nd – May 19th, 2013

It’s summer in Harlem and the hot talk on the street is all about the failing economy, rampant homelessness, Right to Choose vs Right to Life, gay hate crimes and the preachings of the Christian Right. It’s 1930. The Harlem Renaissance has just collided with the Great Depression, leaving the folks up and down 125th Street reeling. Margaret Sanger is struggling to establish the first women’s health clinic in Harlem and idealistic young social worker Delia Patterson is determined to help. Doctor Sam Thomas sees daily the results of high birth rate in the face of meager pre-natal care, but his patients aren’t asking for birth control—they’re asking for jobs. Nightclub singer Angel Allen has just lost her job—and been dumped by her gangster boyfriend–forcing her to move in with longtime friend Guy. Guy, a costume designer by trade, has problems of his own—the kind that come from being gay and black and trying to hold onto dreams that hardly anyone seems to want to come true. The cast of characters that populates this thought-provoking and engaging drama is rounded out by Leland Cunningham, a Good Christian Gentleman from Alabama, whose sudden appearance in the lives of Delia, Sam, Angel and Guy changes everything.

Opening May 2nd-May 19th, 2013

Utah Arts Alliance (Arts Hub)

SUMMER 2013

*SUMMER ARTS TRAINING PROGRAM

(Admittance by Audition ONLY)-Go to Summer Arts Program for further information.

July-22 through August 16^th 2013

Utah Arts Alliance (Arts Hub)