Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre Announces 2007-08 Season/ Auditions for all plays to be held Sept. 9
Kuntu Repertory Theatre, based at the University of Pittsburgh, celebrates 33 years of Black theater with an exciting new season that begins Oct. 18.
The 2007-08 season includes:
Good Black Don’t Crack
By Rob Penny
Oct. 19-Nov. 3, 2007
A revival of this popular classic tells the story
of a single mother juggling family, work, and
her own need for intimacy.
Journey of the Spirit: A History of Gospel
Music
By Ernest McCarty
Jan. 24-Feb. 9, 2008
An original play with music, commissioned
by Kuntu Repertory Theatre.
Lavender Lizards & Lilac Landmines: Layla’s
Dream
By Ntozake Shange
March 20-April 5, 2008
A fresh look at love, life, relationships, and
the need to be wanted, from the acclaimed
author of For Colored Girls Who Have
Committed Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ain’t Misbehavin: The Fats Waller Musical
Show
Music by Thomas “Fats” Waller
Book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby
Jr.
May 15-May 31, 2008
Experience Harlem in the 1930s, with the
toe-tapping, foot-stomping and soul-stirring music of Fats Waller.
Auditions for all four plays will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 9 at Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. People of all ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to participate. Actors should be prepared to deliver a short monologue; dancers should prepare a short piece that shows their versatility; and singers should prepare 8 bars of two songs—one Gospel and one pop—that show their vocal range. Callbacks are scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. the same day. For more information, call 412-624-7298.
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