Current Season

Spring 2013

Simply Heavenly by Langston Hughes

The New York Journal-American, called SIMPLY HEAVENLY "…a treat. This story by Langston Hughes, based on his novels about Jesse B. Semple, a Joe Doakes Harlemite, seems…to capture the color and the humor and poetry of these neighbors-to-the-North as no outlander could imitate. This is the story of the New York Negro written from the inside out; it is a happy and exciting evening. There is a mood and a temper about this show that is unique." The New York Post describes the play: "It possesses such unhackneyed freshness and cheeriness of spirit, such humorous decency and regard for the human spirit, that, as offered last night at the 85th Street Playhouse, it was a real delight. Its great merit is that Mr. Hughes contemplates the people he is writing about with a respect that never becomes patronizing or stuffy and always retains its sense of humor."

Feburary 1 at 7pm and 2nd at 3pm.

Cox/Lewis Theater Tennessee State University

Spring 2013

Just released from jail, Blues singer Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton is asked to sign a record deal after a song he recorded months before he becomes an unexpected hit. After a year of trials and tribulations, Floyd is ready to right the past year's wrongs and return to Chicago with a new understanding of what's important in his life. Unfortunately his means of righting wrongs are inherently flawed.

The play's recurring theme is the African-American male's fight for his own humanity, self-understanding and self-acceptance in the face of personal and societal ills. The rooster is a recurring symbol of black man throughout the play, and provides a violent and shocking foreshadowing effect when Hedley delivers a fiery monologue and ritualistically slaughters one in front of the other characters.

April 3-5 at 7pm, April 6 at 3pm and 7pm, April 7 at 3pm

Cox/Lewis Theater Tennessee State University

Spring Festival of Plays

May 1 and 2 at 5pm

Cox/Lewis Theater Tennessee State UniversityDirected by Dr. Patrick Idoye

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