Virginia Stage Company is excited to invite you to a unique post-show talkback experience with Blues for an Alabama Sky’s playwright, Pearl Cleage!

Following our performance, please stick around as the cast and playwright join us onstage to delve deeper into the creative process and research that goes into bringing such an evocative story to life.

This captivating and achingly beautiful tale, set against the enrapturing somber yet vibrant backdrop of the 1930s Harlem Renaissance, explores the challenges of choice and identity in the face of unimaginable adversity. The Blues are getting bluer and the gin is running dry. A free-spirited Cotton Club singer has just been fired with nowhere left to go but down. So, she turns to her best friend, an extravagant costume designer with plans to dress Josephine Baker in Paris. Maybe they can run away together? Or maybe the handsome Southerner that just came knocking can offer an even better life? But the saxophone dreams of Harlem rarely end as smoothly as they start.

Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Sunday, April 21st, 2024

Postshow Talk with playwright Pearl Cleage - 5 pm at The Wells Theatre

Blues for an Alabama Sky written by Pearl Cleage comes to the Wells Theatre April 17 - May 5, 2024. Sponsored by Capital Group and supported by the generous partnership of The YWCA of South-Hampton Roads.