It’s The Golden Age of Hollywood, and the streets of Los Angeles teem with aspiring starlets. When Vera Stark—maid to “America’s Little Sweetie Pie” Gloria Mitchell—lands a groundbreaking role in an antebellum epic, she turns Hollywood on its head and paves the way for future generations of Black actresses. Seventy years later, film buffs still wrestle with the life and legacy of this controversial star, for whom fame and fortune could only be achieved by joining the apparatus of a deeply racist industry. Hilarious and incisive, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage’s juxtaposition of screwball comedy and sly satire is both satisfying and timely.
- Lynn Nottage
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A Soulful Motown Christmas Holiday Cabaret
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Jingle Belles Comedy
Raue Center For The Arts (12/11 - 12/11) | |
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Anthony Rapp: Home for the Holidays
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Amadeus
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It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
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Elgin Symphony Orchestra
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This Too Shall Slap
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Holiday Brass & Choral Concerts
Saints Faith, Hope, and Charity Catholic Church (12/20 - 12/20) | |
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Ruth Page's The Nutcracker
College of Lake County’s (CLC) James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts (12/20 - 12/21) | |
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