Arena Stage / The Women of Brewster Place

Notes from Molly: Helping the gifted Tim Acito develop this joyous and inspirational new musical has been a labor of love for all of us at Arena. For me, one of the delights of working on the project has been the opportunity to collaborate with such a remarkable colleague. Tim is a true triple threat as it’s rare to have a composer, book writer and lyricist in the same artist. In this astonishing work, Tim establishes himself as a major voice in American musical theater.

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co-production with Alliance Theater
music, lyrics and book by Tim Acito
based on the novel by Gloria Naylor
directed by Molly Smith
October 19 through December 9, 2007
in the Kreeger

Click here to view the video trailer from The Women of Brewster Place and listen to selected songs from the show >

sponsored by B. Thomas Mansbach, Helga Tarver, Shugoll Research and the National Endowment for the Arts

Based on Gloria Naylor’s best selling novel, this soaring musical adaptation of The Women of Brewster Place chronicles the dreams and realities of ten diverse African American women who live in a decaying housing project on a dead-end street. more