Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center

By: Jun. 07, 2023
Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center

The Middletown Arts Center presents the final weekend of August Wilson’s Jitney, produced by the Dunbar Repertory Company and directed by Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr., June 9-11, 2023. See photos from the production.

Director Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr. of Dunbar Repertory Company embarks on the company’s goal to present all ten plays in August Wilson’s celebrated “The American Century Cycle” over the next five years. Jitney, the seventh play in the Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright’s cycle on the black experience in 20th-century America, is set in the early 1970s and follows a group of men trying to eke out a living by driving unlicensed cabs, or jitneys, in the black neighborhood of Pittsburgh’s Hill District. 

Ticket prices are $20 and are general admission. Purchase tickets online at middletownarts.org or call the MAC Box Office at 732.706.4100. The Middletown Arts Center is located at 36 Church Street in Middletown, NJ (next to the Middletown train station). Free parking is available onsite with additional free parking available in station metered lot on weekday evenings after 6 p.m. and on weekends.

Set in an unofficial taxi station threatened with demolition in 1977, Jitney explores the lives and relationships of drivers, highlighting conflicts between generations and different concepts of legacy and identity. When the city of Pittsburgh threatens to board up the gypsy cab business and the boss’ son returns from prison, tempers flare, potent secrets are revealed and the fragile threads binding these people together may come undone at last. A thoroughly revised version of a play Wilson first wrote in 1979, Jitney was produced in New York for the first time in spring 2000, winning rave reviews and the accolade of the New York Drama Critics Circle as the best play of the year.

Jitney’s cast includes Collin Roach (Youngblood), Jo Leo Carney Waterton (Turnbo), Larry Calhoun (Fielding), Bellamy Shivers (Doub), Joseph Taylor (Shealy), Kirk Lambert (Philmore), Arthur Gregory Pugh (Becker), Damien S. Berger (Booster) and Dani Richards (Rena). The crew includes Stephanie Schoppe (Production Stage Manager) and Mark Antonio Henderson (Associate Artistic Director).

Photo Credit: Fawn Nocera Photography/ John Posada Photography

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Collin Roach and Jo Leo Carney Waterton

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Larry Calhoun and Jo Leo Carney Waterton

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Joseph Taylor and Bellamy Shivers

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Kirk Lambert

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Dani Richards and Collin Roach

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Jo Leo Carney Waterton

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Damien S. Berger and Arthur Gregory Pugh

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Jo Leo Carney Waterton, Collin Roach

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Arthur Gregory Pugh

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Jo Leo Carney Waterton, Collin Roach and Larry Calhoun

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Arthur Gregory Pugh and Collin Roach

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Dani Richards

Photos: First Look At August Wilson's JITNEY At The Middletown Arts Center
Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr., Collin Roach, Dani Richards, Joseph Taylor, Mark Antonio Henderson, Larry Calhoun, Damien S. Berger, Bellamy Shivers, Arthur Gregory Pugh, Jo Leo Carney Waterton, Kirk Lambert




RELATED STORIES - New Jersey

1
Classic American Tales Return in Two Locations This Month Photo
Classic American Tales Return in Two Locations This Month

In October, the nonprofit Classic American Tales will be at The Dormer House in Cape May and End of the Road Theater in North Cape May, before taking shows on the road. Learn more about the upcoming performances here!

2
MEAN GIRLS High School Version Will Be the Inaugural Musical at Starlight PAC Photo
MEAN GIRLS High School Version Will Be the Inaugural Musical at Starlight PAC

The Starlight Performing Arts Center will present at the Surflight Theatre, Mean Girls- High School Version. Learn more about the musical and find out how to get tickets here!

3
Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup and David Shenk to Present THE MOVING MEMORY PROJECT: FILL IN T Photo
Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup and David Shenk to Present THE MOVING MEMORY PROJECT: FILL IN THE BLANK Next Month

Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup and David Shenk present the Moving Memory project: fill in the blank on October 6. Get event and ticket information here!

4
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey to Present A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Beginning Next Month Photo
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey to Present A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Beginning Next Month

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) will present its penultimate production for the 2023 Main Stage season, Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons beginning, next month.

More Hot Stories For You

Videos


#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Dogfight
Main Street Theatre Company (10/07-10/15)Tracker
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Bulrusher
McCarter Theatre Center (9/13-10/07)Tracker
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# PIPPIN!
Jersey Shore Arts Center (10/06-10/15)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Joshua Bell Leads the New Jersey Symphony
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (12/01-12/01)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (2/17-2/17)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Schumann’s Cello Concerto
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (10/19-10/19)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# The Dragon King - A Tanglewood Marionettes Production
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (11/04-11/04)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Memphis
Playhouse 22 (6/07-6/23)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Discover Beethoven's Eroica
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (5/18-5/18)
#repshow# in #getregions.name[i]# Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert
State Theatre New Jersey (4/06-4/06)
VIEW ALL SHOWS  ADD A SHOW  

Recommended For You