This brilliantly inventive, lyrically expressive play deals with the coming of age of a young man from rural South Carolina. Originally produced by the Negro Ensemble Company and then transferred to Broadway,

Home will be the third Samm-Art Williams play produced at Jubilee Theatre. Its poignant story of the African- American experience in the United states will remind you that it’s always good to be home.

Continuing the 30th Anniversary Season is the timeless classic by Jubilee founder Rudy Eastman and composer Douglas Balentine. Based on the sermon poems by James Weldon Johnson, it has become a staple at Jubilee Theatre. This holiday musical returns to the stage for the first time in several year with the music audiences have grown to love. God’s Trombones is a musical celebration that will lift your spirits and rock your soul.

Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery tells the story of a young black girl’s coming of age in the South during the sixties. Daughter, the main character and narrator, shares with the audience how the women who raised her, some blood relatives and some not, prepared her for womanhood. Youngblood’s poetic language brings Daughter’s experience to life on the stage.

In 1821, forty years before Lincoln ended slavery, and fifty years before African Americans earned the right to vote, the first black theatrical group in the country was performing Shakespeare in a Manhattan theater, attracting both black and white audiences. Yet the progressive work of The African Company of New York reached much further than their stage, touching on historical and socio-economic conditions of African Americans and beginning to create a new community in New York and the United States.

Alice Wonder, the Eastman and Rogers hit of 2002, returns as part of the 30th Anniversary Season with director Joe Rogers. Starring Sheran Goodspeed-Keyton as Alice Wonder and Robert Rouse as Cat Daddy, this version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland will have you rollicking with laughter. Revisit and relive all the great characters of this classic Eastman and Rogers musical: from Sister Dukes, Rasta Blue and the Notorious Hump D to the incomparable Queen of Hearts and She Dee Dee and She Day Day. This is the Jubilee musical you have been waiting to see again... and again.