Black Nativity presented by Theater Alliance at Anacostia Playhouse

Black Nativity

Anacostia Playhouse
2020 Shannon Place SE Washington

This Christmas classic returns to Theater Alliance with a fresh voice. Langston Hughes chronicles and celebrates the birth of Jesus, while also celebrating the birth of Blackness. This classic story told through gospel, blues, funk, jazz, and dance asks you to look inward and find the wonder in life.

Presented by Theater Alliance

Thru - Jan 4, 2015

Price: $35

Show Type: Musical

Running Time: 2hrs, with one intermission

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Theater Alliance’s production of Black Nativity at the Anacostia Playhouse is a gloriously joyful noise indeed. An Afrocentric celebration of the Christmas story rooted in the strength and power of the African Diaspora, Black Nativity is a jubilant holiday classic and unforgettable theatrical experience. Under the direction of Eric Ruffin, this newly created Black Nativity has a freshness that exalts the black experience in transcendent universal themes of peace, love, joy and liberation that will appeal to all cultures, religions and ages."

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- Ramona Harper

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...My friends and I couldn’t stop singing and dancing to songs like “Joy to the World,” “Go Tell It On The Mountain” and “Oh Come Let Us Adore Him.” We even cracked up at a scene called No-Good Shepherd Boy where Roy Patten Jr. played a hilariously lazy shepherd while the other Shepherds, (Jason Johnson, Marquis D. Gibson, Elton Pittman and Addison Switzer) mesmerized the audience with a creative rhyme and dance."

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- Beatrice McClearn

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Want to see joy personified? Look no further than Black Nativity, now blazing the stage of the Anacostia Playhouse with light, love, hope and more joy to the world than any Scrooge could withstand.Part Christmas pageant and Sunday praise meeting, Black Nativity is unapologetically Afro-centric but altogether accessible to anyone seeking a celebration of the birth of Christ that is musically and spiritually uplifting.

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- Jeff Walker

Black Nativity presented by Theater Alliance at Anacostia Playhouse

Black Nativity

Black Nativity Reviews

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

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