November 4 to November 29, 2015
(performances run Thursdays at 7:30pm, Friday at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 4:00pm and 7:30pm, and Sundays at 3:00pm)
Previews: November 4 & 5 at 7:30pm (Tickets: $20)
Opening: November 6 at 7:30pm
The place – a “beulah box”, the ubiquitous raggedy beauty salon of Chicago’s South Side. The people – three “transplants,” or African Americans who have escaped to the queer-friendly North Side. What draws each back here, to the dangerous place where they grew up? Death in a Beulah Box is a pressure cooker of the psychological wounds of racism, and how African Americans’ choices over healing those wounds, or not, pit them against each another.
written by Barbara Wells
directed by Jason Paul Smith
Featuring: Kimberly Banks, Jeff Broitman, Basha Evans, and Watson Swift
Resident Stage Manager: Jess Koster
Resident Set and Lighting Designer: Pat Henderson
Creative Team
Barbara Wells
Playwright
Jason Paul Smith
Director
Pat Henderson
Set & Lighting Designer
Kimberly Banks
Carol
Jeff Broitman
Death
Basha Evans
20
Watson Swift
Luis
Jess Koster
Resident Stage Manager
Coming Soon
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- “Death in a Beulah Box” cast after a rehearsal at the Berger Park Cultural Center. From left to right, Jess Koster, Basha Evans, Kimberly Banks, Watson Swift, Jeff Broitman.