The first theatrical presentation in the newly-renovated Billie Holiday Theatre is the 80th Anniversary reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God helmed by the Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson who recently directed the critically acclaimed August Wilson’s Jitney on Broadway.
Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes is the epic tale of Janie Crawford, whose search for self takes her on a journey that stretches across decades. Told with haunting sympathy and piercing immediacy, audiences are taken on a journey through life and love. Read by an acclaimed cast of actors with original compositions performed live by Bill Sims, Jr.
This seminal novel in the American literary canon prompted Alice Walker to say, “There is no book more important to me than this one.”
