2008-2009 Theatrical Season
Main Stage (Season Finale)
Twelve Angry Jurors
Drama Directed by Steve Ray
June 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, & 28, 2009
Ripple Theatre (3264 Brainerd Rd) CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS
Fridays & Saturdays 8:00pm, Sundays 4:00pm
Advance Tickets: Adults -$17.00; Groups 10 or more, Seniors 55+ and Students - $14.00; Saturday (6/27 only) matinee - $12.00
For Group, Seniors, and Student sales call 423-544-1597
All tickets (general seating) $20.00 day of show
Destiny Theatre Company presents the hit stage play adapted by Sherman Sergel based on the Emmy award-winning television movie “12 Angry Men” by Reginald Rose
FOR TICKETS:
The Chattanooga African-American Museum: 423-266-8658
Premier Hair and Beauty Supply: 5512 Brainerd Rd. 423-648-4206
Memorial Auditorium: 423-642-TIXS
or purchase online by CLICKING HERE
CAST
Foreman : Julie Van Valkenburg
Juror #2: Kimberly Shuman
Juror #3: Ikeko Bass
Juror #4: E'tienne Easley
Juror #5: Luz Mason
Juror #6: Vincent Phipps
Juror #7: Greg Williams
Juror #8: Dylan Kussman
Juror #9: Anthony Robinson
Juror #10: Tolga Muftuoglu
Juror #11: Brenda Schwab
Juror #12: Stacy Lightfoot
Guard: Charles Patterson
Judge (voice): Judge Walter Williams
Understudy: Myletta Lacey
Late Great Ladies of Jazz & Blues
Drama Written by Thomas W. Jones II
April 18, 19, 24, 25, & 26, 2009
Friday & Saturday 8:00pm, Sunday 4:00pm
Advance Tickets: Adults -$18.00, Groups 10 or more, Seniors 55+ and Students - $16.00
All tickets (general seating) $23.00 day of show
Pays tribute to Blues and Jazz Legends
From the Empress to the Queen "LATE GREAT LADIES OF JAZZ & BLUES" will take you on a musical journey celebrating Blues and Jazz icons Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Chattanooga’s own “The Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith. "LATE GREAT LADIES OF JAZZ & BLUES" is a non-stop musical journey that reaches the heart of a people and the soul if it’s music. For anyone with a pulse—a soul—"LATE GREAT LADIES OF JAZZ & BLUES" will shake the rafters with the foot stomping rhythms of jazz and blues.
FOR TICKETS:
The Chattanooga African-American Museum: 423-266-8658
Premier Hair and Beauty Supply: 5512 Brainerd Rd. 423-648-4206
Chattanooga Theatre Centre Box Office: 423-267-8534
Waiting to Be Invited
Drama Written by S. M. Shephard-Massat
February 19–22, 2009
19th - 7:00p.m., 20th - 8:00p.m., 21st - 8:00p.m., 22nd - 5:00p.m.
Olivet Baptist Church Kingdom Center, 730 M. L. King Blvd.
Black History Month Production
It's the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. Four middle-aged black women, co-workers from a local doll factory, travel by city bus to a "whites only" eating establishment inside a downtown Atlanta department store Their purpose is to "test" their newly acquired civil rights handed down by the Supreme Court outlawing segregation in eating establishments. This funny, touching play received the Kennedy Center Roger L. Stevens Award for New Playwrights and the Adrienne Kennedy Award for Most Promising Young Dramatist.
CAST
Ms. Louise … Lady Altovise
Ms. Odessa … Tongeia "Toni" Farmer
Ms. Delores … Pamella Clark
Ms. Ruth … Jacquelin Ramsey-Morgan
Ms. Ruth (understudy & bus rider) … Bertha Lawrence
Ms. Grayson … Julie VanValkenburg
Palmeroy Bateman … LaFrederick Thirkill
Back By Popular Demand...The Helen Hayes Award Winning Musical
Bessie’s Blues
Drama - Written and Directed By Thomas W. Jones II
April 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, and 26
Chattanooga Theatre Centre
BESSIE’S BLUES is more than a biography of Blues legend Bessie Smith it is a musical journey A Blues Odyssey through the 20th Century of Hip Shaking, Earth Quaking Rhythms. BESSIE’S BLUES is a travelogue thru the blues as voices are heard thru the Blues icon Chattanooga’s own and Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith. It is a non-stop musical journey that reaches the heart of a people and the soul if it’s music. For anyone with a pulse; a soul; Bessie’s Blues shakes the rafters with the foot stomping rhythms of the blues.
Youth Theatre Series
2nd Annual City Wide High School Monologue Competition
October 2009
This competition is part of our arts and education initiative to showcase the very talented youth of our next generation. Not do these young men and women get the opportunity to showcase their talents, but also they build self confidence and self discipline.
Each student will be allowed to showcase one monologue that is either dramatic or comedic and no more than 3 minutes in total length. These monologues can be taken from published works or may be original.
We want this event to be fun and memorable for our teens so join us and be part of touching the lives of our youth.
We look forward to seeing you at the competition
New Works Series
Artistic Director Thomas W. Jones II
Feature new published and unpublished works of established artist and emerging artists.
Why A Sistah Can’t Get No Love?
From the creators of Bessie's Blues and Black Nativity—a hilarious new adult comedy on the taboos of sex, love, and infidelity.
Written and Directed by Thomas W. Jones II
Starring Karl D'Wayne Gardner and Veronica Byrd
September 13 – October 19, 2008
Encore Theatre
