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Soulful Christmas: A Gospel Holiday Concert
December 1-24, 2016
Buriel Clay Theater, San Francisco
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Create Your Own 2016-2017
Purchase a 3 to 6 Play Passport Package
LHT Productions can be purchased as single tickets
and/or included in a Passport Subscription. Partner Plays All Require an LHT Passport Subscription.
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November 11-December 4, 2016
(LHT PASSPORT PARTNER - Subscription Purchase Required)
by Keith Josef Adkins
directed by L. Peter Callender
Set in Kentucky in 1843, SAFE HOUSE examines the lives of one free family of color and the tensions that arise between two brothers with conflicting aspirations. While one brother dreams of opening his own business, the other risks everything in an effort to help fugitive slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. Based on true events in the lives of his ancestors.
(Single Tickets, 2 Play Package or add to a Passport Subscription)
Music Director Yvonne Cobbs
Celebrating over 20 years of Gospel Music at LHT, SOULFUL CHRISTMAS: A Gospel Holiday Concert, LHT's original production features renowned Music Director, Yvonne Cobbs, and the legendary Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Choir who perform gospel and secular holiday songs at the Buriel Clay Theater in San Francisco.
January 19-February 12, 2017
(LHT PASSPORT PARTNER - Subscription Purchase Required)
by Nambi E. Kelley - Based on the Novel by Richard Wright (West Coast Premiere)
directed by Seret Scott
Bigger Thomas dares to want more out of life. Things start looking up when he lands a plum job with the well-to-do Dalton family, but their daughter Mary proves to be as dangerous as she is alluring. A fateful decision sends Bigger down a violent and inescapable path. Misrepresented and underestimated by everyone around him, Bigger has no one to turn to except himself.
March 30-April 23, 2017
(LHT PASSPORT PARTNER - Subscription Purchase Required)
written and directed by Robert Lepage
Jazz legend Miles Davis travels to Europe in 1949 to discover the pleasures of Paris, unlock his creativity, and find his heroine in Juliette Gréco. At the same time, French filmmaker Jean Cocteau embarks on his own opium-fueled journey to New York.
May 11-June 4, 2017
(Single Tickets, 2 Play Package or add to a Passport Subscription)
by Samm-Art Willilams
directed by Steven Anthony Jones
Cephus Miles, an orphan, inherited his family farm in South Carolina. He is content to work the land-until his childhood sweetheart rejects him for college. Cephus is imprisoned as a draft evader for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War. By the time he is released, Cephus has lost his land to the tax collector and heads north to build a new life. Despite all, he never loses his indomitable spirit and the conviction that one day his quest for fulfillment will be rewarded.
(LHT PASSPORT PARTNER - Subscription Purchase Required)
by Han Ong (World Premiere)
directed by Loretta Greco
GRANDEUR imagines a meeting between an ambitious young journalist and the shape-shifting music legend, Gil Scott-Heron. Questions of legacy, art, hope, and redemption drive this funny and gut-wrenching exchange. Featuring Carl Lumbly.
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QUESTIONS? Contact the Box Office at (415) 474-8800or email BoxOffice@LHTSF.org.
[NOTE: All Sales are FINAL. No Refunds. Exchanges can be made pending availability. A $5 per ticket Exchange Fee will apply. A Convenience Fee WILL apply to ALL orders. Passport Plays must be selected no less than two weeks prior to any performance date.]
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EVERY 28 HOURS
October 21 - November 12
at PianoFight
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE and a Collaboration of Bay Area Theaters Present EVERY 28 HOURS -- A Series of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Black Lives Matters
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Every 28 Hours is a series of one-minute plays written by 90 contributing artists from across the nation who focus on the widely shared and contested statistic that every twenty-eight hours a black person in the United States is killed by a vigilante, security guard, or the police.
Inspired by Black Lives Matter, this national project was co-created and first produced by Dominic D'Andrea of the One Minute Play Festival and Claudia Alick of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival after the killing of Michael Brown, a young African American, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014.
The Bay Area production of Every 28 Hours opens Friday, October 21st at PianoFight, 144 Taylor Street in San Francisco, for a four-week run October 21-November 12.
The local project was spearheaded by FaultLine Theater which formed a collaboration with A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Campo Santo, Crowded Fire Theater and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre to mount the production in the Bay Area.
Directors include
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre's Artistic Director, Steven Anthony Jones,
Donald Lacy, Luna Malbroux, Mina Morita and Tyrone Davis.
Each event is followed by facilitated discussions
led by local activists and artists about this critical Civil Rights moment in America.
4-WEEK RUN
October 21-November 12, 2016
Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
144 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tickets are FREE 30 minutes before
each performance on a first-come, first-served basis.
Seating is limited.
Tickets can be reserved online with a
Donations will cover production expenses.
Any and all profit will be donated to the official #BlackLivesMatter organization.
Click to listen to interview with Steven Anthony Jones on KGO radio's Theater Row with Brian Copeland.
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Help Support Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Celebrating 35 Years in 2016!
If you do not wish to donate online using PayPal or a credit card, checks can be made payable and mailed to:
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
762 Fulton Street, Suite 204
San Francisco, CA 94102
SEW Productions, Inc./Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. Thank you!
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Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is funded in part by
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