Don Baker, a blind young man, moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother. Jill Tanner, the freethinking young woman next door, takes a liking to him and his meticulously kept apartment. As they begin a closer relationship, Don's mother, Mrs. Baker, enters to "help" her son navigate his new life. Butterflies are Free is a funny, touching and emotional play about the risks that go with loving someone.
This show is rated PG-13 for mild partial nudity and reference to sexual activity.
On February 29, 1940, the Oscars are set to make history in Hollywood, but the night takes an unexpected turn when Bartender Arthur Brooks, a hopeful Black filmmaker from rural Alabama, and his best friend Dottie Hudson, a disillusioned maid at the Ambassador Hotel, find themselves at a crossroads. As Academy Award Nominee Hattie McDaniel unexpectedly opts out of the night's grand event, Arthur and Dottie are thrust into a frantic mission to convince her to attend and seize her historic victory. This gripping play delves into themes of race, class, gender, and the shifting dynamics of Hollywood's golden age.
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
The framework of this spine tingler is unusual: a lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long troubled him concerning every that transpired when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere mention of whom terrifies the locals, for she is a specter who haunts the neighborhood where her illegitimate child was accidentally killed. Anyone who sees her dies! The lawyer has invited some friends to watch as he and the actor recreate the events of that dark and stormy night. A classic of the genre.
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