Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at Nate Holden Performing Arts Center

Written by Lanie Robertson and directed by Wren T. Brown, this drama with music examines and explores the life of the legendary Billie Holiday during one of her final performances in Philadelphia, in March 1959, four months shy of her death, at the age of 44. Karole Foreman (Fences at International City Theatre) will star in the title role along with music director Stephan Terry (NAACP Award-winner for Recorded in Hollywood at the Kirk Douglas Theatre). LADY DAY AT EMERSONS BAR & GRILL will feature 14 of Billie Holidays hits including When A Woman Loves A Man, God Bless the Child, What a Little Moonlight Can Do, Easy Livin, Strange Fruit, among others.