ZACK WINOKUR, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
LAURA CLEMENT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Gospel at Colonus
CONCEIVED AND ADAPTED BY
LEE BREUER
MUSIC COMPOSED BY
BOB TELSON
ORIGINAL LYRICS BY
LEE BREUER
ADAPTED LYRICS BY
BOB TELSON & LEE BREUER
DIRECTED BY
SHAYOK MISHA CHOWDHURY
CO-MUSIC DIRECTOR
DIONNE MCCLAIN-FREENEY
CO-MUSIC DIRECTOR
JAMES HALL
SCENIC DESIGNER
DAVID ZINN
COSTUME DESIGNER
MONTANA LEVI BLANCO
LIGHTING DESIGNER
STACEY DEROSIER
SOUND DESIGNER
GARTH MACALEAVEY
HAIR & WIG DESIGNER
COOKIE JORDAN
CHOIR
JAMES HALL WORSHIP & PRAISE
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
ALYSSA K. HOWARD
FEATURING STEPHANIE BERRY, DR. KEVIN BOND, BOBBY BRYAN, KIM BURRELL, PASTOR CHARLES, SCHANEL CRAWFORD, JAQWANNA CRAWFORD, JACQUETTA FAYTON, ANGIE GOSHEA, JAMES HALL, SAMANTHA HOWARD, AYANA GEORGE JACKSON, ROBYN MCLEOD, BRANDON MICHAEL NASE, JON-MICHAEL REESE, TEDDY REID, TJ RIDDICK, VISCHON ROBINSON, FRANK SENIOR, SERPENTWITHFEET, DAVÓNE TINES, LENNY VANCOOTEN, EUGENE MARCUS WALKER, DARLENE NIKKI WASHINGTON
About This Performance
The epic myth of Oedipus is reborn as a Pentecostal ritual that remakes prophecy as testimony and brokenness as transcendence.
A man condemned from birth searches for grace. A choir lifts him up. The congregation – the audience – bears witness to his tale. But here, tragedy is not an ending – it’s the road to deliverance.
Director, and Pulitzer Prize-finalist, Shayok Misha Chowdhury gathers a powerhouse ensemble to bring this legendary work to life and build a space for us to gather, rejoice, and transform.
Run time: 90 minutes
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Seating is general admission within each section, seated front to back
- A limited number of standing rail tickets will be available for $10
- There will be no late seating
- This performance includes haze and strobing lights.
Based on an adaptation of Sophocles’ OEDIPUS AT COLONUS in the version by Robert Fitzgerald and incorporating passages from both Sophocles’ OEDIPUS REX and ANTIGONE in the versions by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, which are published as THE OEDIPUS CYCLE OF SOPHOCLES, a Harvest/HBJ Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc..
Produced on Broadway, 1988 by Dodger Productions, Liza Lorwin, Louis Busch Hager, Playhouse Square Center and Fifth Avenue Productions; Executive Producers Michael David, Edward Strong and Sherman Warner. Originally Produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, Harvey Lichtenstein, Executive Producer, Joseph V. Melillo, Producer, in association with Liza Lorwin and Walker Art Center.” Subsequent productions from 1997-2018, produced by Sharon Levy, Dovetail Productions.
THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS is available through Theater Communications Group, NYC, and that the original cast recording is released on the Elektra/Nonesuch label.