Playwrights' GYM
Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7 pm
FREE ADMISSION

At Last: Celebrating the Lives of Black Women by Dr. Mary E. Weems

Directed by Ashley Aquilla

Featuring: Ebani Edwards

Approximate running time: 60 minutes

Short description of the piece: "At Last" combines history, imagination and song to tell the complex, socially charged, redemptive stories of eleven Black women: Etta James, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Zora Neal Hurston, June Jordan, Phyllis Hyman, Queen Latifah, and Michelle Obama.