We are giving away a pair of tickets to Paradise Blue @ Portland Playhouse September 24 – November 2. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed September 29.
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From our sponsors:
Penumbra Theatre Paradise Blue
Paradise Blue by Dominique Morriseau
Sep 24-27, Oct 1-4, Oct 8-12, Oct 15-19, Oct 22-26, Oct 29-Nov 1 @ 7:30pm
Sep 28 Oct 4-5, Oct 11-12, Oct 18-19, Oct 25-26, Nov 1-2 @ 2pm
$5-59.95 | 13+
Purchase Tickets: portlandplayhouse.org
Portland Playhouse
602 NE Prescott St, Portland, OR 97211
Step into a world of jazz, found family, and the inspiring resilience of a community on the brink.
It’s 1949 and gentrification is threatening Detroit’s Black Bottom, the city’s historic African American neighborhood. Blue, a talented but tormented trumpeter, must decide if he wants to fight to keep his jazz joint, the Paradise Club, alive. When a mysterious woman full of secrets and ulterior motives comes into town everything Blue thought he knew, and his relationships with the people at the heart of the Paradise Club, are thrown into question. Dominique Morisseau’s noir inflected musical drama explores the price of ambition, the weight of history, and what it means to be a people fighting to find their song in a community on the brink.
Paradise Blue
by Dominique Morisseau
directed by Lou Bellamy
a co-production with Penumbra Theatre in Saint Paul, MN