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Jewelle Gomez's "Leaving the Blues"


  • The Flea 20 Thomas Street New York, NY, 10007 United States (map)
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Written by Jewelle Gomez
Directed by Mark Finley

Where: The Flea
20 Thomas Street, New York, NY

When: January 16 – February 8, 2020
Running time:
2 hours 20 minutes

Hop onto an imaginary train of memories with famed African-American blues and jazz singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter as she follows her long-dead friend, black comedian Bert Williams (Will), now her glad-handed guide and conductor. He has promised to stir up enough memories of her past successes, friends, and loves to encourage her return to the music she left some twenty years past in the late 1950s. Hunter’s life story, rife with danger, uncertainty, heartbreak, and triumph lays bare the tension that our racial and sexual histories create inside all of us and the danger that history has been and can be to our ability to love.


Press Contact: Michele Karlsberg
Marketing and Management

MicheleKarlsberg@me.com
917-359-2803

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Note: Production Photos available via PRESS KIT link; (photo credit MIKIODO)


Earlier Event: December 3
Happy Holidays Party
Later Event: June 1
Summer Show 2020