Production Schedule

January
24 - 25 at 8pm
26 at 3pm
29 at 8pm
30 - 31 at 8pm

February
1 at 8pm
2 at 3pm*

An Africana Studies and Theatre and Dance Department Production

Sistas on Fire! A Newsical
by Professor Marcia McNair & Professor Anissa Moore
Directed by Juson Williams

*All proceeds from the Sunday, February 2nd show will go to the Professor Kenneth V. Jenkins Memorial Scholarship Fund. The scholarship supports students of the African Diaspora who demonstrate academic achievement and outstanding participation in campus and community activities. A reception will follow in NCC's Theatre Building sponsored by the Black History Month Committee.

In Sistas on Fire! A Newsical, the personal becomes the political when passionately-opinionated African American women speak their minds in a soul-stirring mix of song, dance, spoken word poetry and prose. The interrelated dramatic monologues examine pressing social issues from an African American female perspective.

May 1 - 2 at 8pm
May 3 at 3pm

May 6 - 9 at 8pm
May 10 at 3pm

Directed by Victor Abravaya

Action unfolds in the lobby of a rundown hotel as the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day. The drama is of passing events in their lives, of everyday encounters and of the human comedy, with conversations often overlapping into a contrapuntal musical flow. In the resulting mosaic each character emerges clearly and perceptively defined, and the sum total of what they are—or wish they were—becomes a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world's eyes..

Directed by Miriam Hertzson

Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, the Grammy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated smash, made history as Broadway’s longest-running musical revue. The show features 40 of the greatest songs of the past century. This refreshing, sizzling-hot, production of the show, directed and choreographed by Professor Miriam Hertzson will appear in the Little Theatre for the first time, bringing these sensational rock and roll songs to a new generation.