National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of Billie Holiday National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of Billie Holiday National Museum of African ...
It’s also the year of Holiday’s death at age 44 ... Despite her protestation, the Billie we first meet in “Lady Day,” ...
(Photo by Kris Ikejiri) In the program director’s notes for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by Lyric Stage, the playwright recalls her boyfriend seeing Billie Holiday perform for some ...
“Billie Holiday is one of the great fashion icons ... elegant “lady” — a fact underscored by her nickname, Lady Day. She even ...
The spellbinding, sometimes brutally evocative lyrics of "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, describes lynchings in the American South.
On press night, and after only one same-day rehearsal, Michael Matlock, filling in as Jimmy for the ailing David Freeman ...
Billie Holiday gives the greatest concert of her life in a South Philadelphia bar. And you have a front row seat. One of MRT audiences’ favorite plays of all time, Lady Day elucidates the life ...
To honor Black History Month, Lyric Stage will present Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill from January 31 to February 23. The show will ...