Event

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness famed jazz singer Joyce Cobb deliver one of Billie Holiday's last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music.

"The richest jazz singing in town just now is at [this] subtle absorbing dramatic performance.... Evokes all the sordidness of a woman entirely shaped by suffering.... By the end ... one is filled with an unexpected joy.... Robertson's play is a spare, shrewdly constructed piece."-- N.Y. Times.

"Hurts and exhilarates in just the right proportions."-- New York Magazine.

"Original and riveting."-- London Times.