Wine in the Wilderness tickets
About Wine in the Wilderness
Get Wine in the Wilderness tickets to see another stunning play from Alice Childress, who recently took Broadway by storm with her drama Trouble in Mind. A master chronicler of the African American experience in 20th-century America, Alice Childress and her plays did not always get their due in her day. Now, Tony Award winner LaChanze, who starred in Trouble in Mind, revisits another vital Childress play by making her New York directorial debut with Wine in the Wilderness. Set an alert to get Wine in the Wilderness tickets on TodayTix.
In Childress's Harlem-set play in the 1960s, artist Bill Jameson is poised to finally complete his highly anticipated triptych of Black womanhood. His friends set him up with the perfect muse, Tomorrow Marie, but Tomorrow is not ordinary or silent. Bill soon learns he's getting more than he bargained for as Tomorrow redefines how Black women are seen in art.
Wine in the Wilderness runs off Broadway at Classic Stage Company for a limited this spring — get tickets soon on TodayTix.
Run time
1hr 25min. No intermission.
Categories
Start date
March 6th, 2025
End date
April 19th, 2025
Wine in the Wilderness cast and creative team
By: Alice Childress
Director: LaChanze
Producer: Classic Stage Company
Cast list: Grantham Coleman (as Bill), Olivia Washington (as Tommy), Brooks Brantly (as Sonny-man), Lakisha Michelle May (as Cynthia), Milton Craig Nealy (as Oldtimer)
Sets: Arnulfo Maldonado
Costumes: Dede Ayite
Lighting: Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Sound: Bill Toles
Other info: Wig and hair design by Nikiya Mathis
More information about Wine in the Wilderness
Born in 1916, Alice Childress was one of America's most prolific African American female dramatists: the great-great-granddaughter of a slave, Childress chronicled the modern Black experience in New York. She wrote and produced plays for four decades straight in the 1900s, becoming one of that century's most well-known writers. Nonetheless, systemic racism in the American theatre and broader culture limited her fame. A dynamic and fearless writer, Childress often addressed racism head-on in her plays, which often made them unstageable at the time. Producers told her to tame one of her most famous works, Trouble in Mind, by downplaying its themes.
Nonetheless, Childress stayed true to herself and wrote bold plays that caught fire after her death in 1994. She won the Drama Desk Harold S. Prince Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022 but also enjoyed literary success during her lifetime, winning the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and receiving an honorable mention in 1982 for the Coretta Scott King Award. Today, theatres are rediscovering and appreciating Childress's texts, which continue to resonate and shed a light on race relations within the arts community.
What to watch for
- You've likely seen LaChanze on stage; she won a Tony Award for The Color Purple, originated the role of Ti Moune in Once On This Island, and starred in Trouble in Mind on Broadway.
- Wine in the Wilderness will feel right at home at Classic Stage Company, a company known for taking beloved texts — by everyone from Shakespeare and Moliere to Stephen Sondheim and Terrence McNally — and invigorating them with new life in timely revivals.
- Alice Childress is enjoying a renaissance in New York; the Broadway debut of her play Trouble in Mind received rave reviews, including five stars in New York Theatre Guide: "In a time when Broadway is going through its own reckoning with its history of erasure, this revival of Trouble in Mind asks, how far have we truly come?"
- Childress was known for more than her plays: She wrote children’s books, published more than 30 newspaper columns for Freedom, and acted on Broadway.
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