Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill @ THE SPACE PIRATES THEATRE COLLECTIVE

Photo by Skye LaFontaine

F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Lanie Robertson’s play about the legendary jazz songstress Billie Holiday, has become a popular offering in theaters both large and small since its 1986 debut, with Audra McDonald winning a Tony for Best Actress during its 2014 Broadway run. Read more…

Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA

As we enter the intimate Zebra Room underground club in East Hollywood, we find ourselves enveloped inside a somewhat grungy yet atmospheric long-gone Philadelphia nightspot in the spring of 1959, site of Lanie Robertson’s flawless Outer Critics Award-winning and two-time Tony-nominated theatrical masterpiece. Read more…