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February 14, 2015

 
Our 34th Season -- 2014-2015  
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Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
Passport Season Subscriptions
February through July 2015  
Significant savings are still available --
Hurry to Secure Your Tickets!!! 
NOW is a great time to become a Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) Subscriber!!!
 
There are still six plays being offered between February and July 2015 with Cutting Ball Theater's world premiere ofMount Misery just added as a passport selection.

LHT's production of Thurgood forms the foundation of each subscription package. 
Subscribers can then choose two or more of our partner theatres' plays to create an LHT
2014-2015 Passport Subscription of your choice. See LHT's Thurgood, plus a 
variety of plays selected expressly with our LHT audience in mind.

Subscription prices start at $105 for three plays ($95 for seniors).
This is a significant savings over purchasing single tickets to each show!

 
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[NOTE: LHT does not sell single tickets to partner theater plays. However, if you are already an LHT 2014-2015 subscriber, you can add Mount Misery to your current subscription. Subscribers can also add extra tickets for Thurgood to their subscription. Single tickets for Thurgood will also go on sale for the general public in April or May.] 
Passport Play Selections 
 
Subscriptions Include LHT's Production of Thurgood and 
Your Choice of 2 to 5 Additional Plays February-July 2015     
  








San Fra
ncisco Playhouse presents
Tree
written by Julie Hebert
directed by Jon Tracy
An unexpected knock at the door turns a family upside-down. In this story of beginnings and endings, betrayal and love, three generations twist and grow in astonishing ways.
LHT Dates: January 25-March 7, 2015, San Francisco

 
Just Theatre in association with Shotgun Players at the Ashby Stage presents
We Are Proud to Present
written by Jackie Sibblies Drury
directed by Molly Aaronson-Gelb
When an interracial group of actors get together to do a theatrical presentation about the origins of Namibia, issues of race in our "postracial" society come up...
LHT Dates: February 7-22, 2015, Berkeley
 

Marin Theatre Company presents 
The Convert
by Danai Gurira
(Bay Area Premiere)
The Convert follows a young Shona woman in Southern Africa at the turn of the 19th century as she wrestles with the impacts of English colonization on her people, her family and herself. Against her family's wishes, she escapes an arranged marriage, converts to Christianity and becomes servant and student to an African evangelist.
LHT Dates: February 25-March 15, 2015, Mill Valley

 
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) presents 
Let There Be Love
by Kwame Kwei-Armah
An immigrant's tale of beginnings, endings and nationalism set against the music of Nat King Cole.
LHT Dates: April 8-19, 2015, San Francisco

 
The Cutting Ball Theater
presents
Mount Misery
by Andrew Saito 
(World Premiere) JUST ADDED!
Directed by Rob Melrose 
On a plantation in a small Maryland town, a teenaged slave named Frederick Douglass once fought and triumphed against a cruel overseer named Edward Covey. In 2003, Covey's home, "Mount Misery," was purchased by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for $1.5 million. In Mount Misery, Saito imagines Rumsfeld and Douglass' interactions crossing the boundaries of time.
LHT Dates: May 14-31, 2015, San Francisco
 

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT)
 presents
 
Thurgood  Foundation of all subscriptions 
by George Stevens Jr.
Directed by Margo Hall
An eye-opening, humorous and uplifting portrait of a true American and Civil Rights Era hero based on the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. From a childhood in the back alleys of Baltimore, Thurgood overcame many adversities on an unlikely journey of epic proportions to become the first African-American Justice on the Supreme Court. 
LHT Dates: July 9-July 26, 2015
Creativity Theater, San Francisco
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It's a Wrap
 
 
THE FINAL VERSION
by Ishmael Reed
 
 
The cast reads "The Final Version" at MoAD on Sat., February 7
Our popular BATA staged readings series continued with The Final Version by Ishmael Reed at 2 pm on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the Museum of the African Diaspora(MoAD) in San Francisco. Directed by Margo Hall, the cast and crew included:
 
Lee. . . Artist Fountain
Veronica. . . Halili Knox
Ruth. . . Clara McDaniel
Hank. . . Michael J. Asberry 
Mable. . . Melissa Quine
Bess. . . Safiya Fredericks
Editor/Newscaster. . . Elena Wright
Ernest. . . Erick Crawford 
WASP Narrator. . . Alex Skinner  
Stage Manager. . . Karmyn Johnson

 
First produced on off Broadway at theNuyorican Poet's Cafe in New York City in December 2013, Reed's play is about the Soviet Nazi non-aggression pact of 1939 that caused the disruption of the Communist party in the USA. Black writer, Lee Ransom, who has been sponsored by the party, is a rising star in the party based upon his being jailed for organizing Southern workers. He is invited to have his book published by an uptown publishing company on the condition that his proletarian novel, "Let The Red Flags Unfurl," be de-radicalized. This involves the deletion of two characters who might offend mainstream audiences. Ransom has to decide whether to remain true to his radical principles, or go for the money. He decides to cut the characters to secure the deal. Flash forward to 1965. A new publishing company wants to publish the original novel. The two dropped characters fight with Lee over whether he should take a gamble and publish his original version, or whether it is still too "red hot."

 

(Left to Right) Artist Fountain, Erick Crawford, Margo Hall, Michael J. Asberry and Alex SkinnerMembers of The Final Version cast pose with Director Margo Hall.
  

The next LHT BATA Staged Readings scheduled at MoAD are onApril 18, 2015 and June 6, 2015. Admission to the museum and the reading is free for MoAD Members and LHT Subscribers.

Admission to the reading is free to all others with General Admission to MoAD (Adults $10; Seniors and Students $5) Click here for more information

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ABOUT LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE
The core mission of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) is to promote the performing arts.
LHT presents plays by America's foremost African-American and multicultural playwrights; provides employment and career-building opportunities for actors, directors, designers, and technicians; and fosters youth development and education through community outreach. LHT distinguishes itself as an eclectic learning community, sustained by both rigor and creativity.  LHT draws from aesthetic, cultural and economic resources of the San Francisco Bay Area to enrich and strengthen the performing arts. Founded in 1981 in San Francisco, the theatre was named after Lorraine Hansberry, an American playwright whose "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. LHT has produced more than 130 plays, including west coast and world premieres, experimental works, classics in the African-American canon, lively musicals, and poignant socio-political dramas. LHT's presentations range from the works of Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison to Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Charles Fuller, Alice Walker and August Wilson; to large-scale musicals celebrating Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Lester Young, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake and others; to award winning dramas by James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and our namesake Lorraine Hansberry; to pioneering experimental theatre artists Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange and Maria Irene Fornes, and new works by Robert Alexander, Roger Guenveur Smith, David Rousseve, Prince Gomolvilas, among others.
 
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"There is always something left to love.

And if you ain't learned that,

you ain't learned nothing."

Lorraine Hansberry 

 

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