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LoveBabz LoveTalk welcomes Jenny Nelson and Tamika Pettway from Collective Consciousness Theatre to discuss their new production (Trouble

TROUBLE IN MIND

MARCH 12-29

By Alice Childress

Directed by Jenny Nelson

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Set during rehearsals for a major Broadway production, Trouble in Mind illuminates the inner life of a Black actress struggling with her career. Alice Childress's 1955 play – which finally premiered on Broadway in 2021 – is a funny, moving and heartbreaking look at racism, identity and ego in the high-stakes world of New York theatre.

 In Mind)

Written by August Wilson
Directed by Cheyenne Barboza

Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, Gem of the Ocean begins at the home of Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old spiritual healer and former slave believed to carry the memory of the African diaspora. When Citizen Barlow, a newcomer from the South, arrives haunted by guilt, Aunt Ester sends him on a spiritual journey to the mythical City of Bones to confront his past and ancestry. As the community wrestles with protest, injustice, and the cost of resistance, Citizen must choose the legacy he’ll carry forward. The first in The American Century Cycle, Gem of the Ocean is a lyrical story of reckoning and the path to freedom. 

https://www.newhaventheatercompany.com/

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