February 23 - March 12, 2023

It is 1959 and legendary jazz singer, Billie Holiday is about to take the stage at Emerson’s Bar & Grill for one of her final performances. Through songs and stories, Lady Day reveals her loneliness, inner fire, and a spirit that refuses to break. Interwoven with more than a dozen musical numbers including “When a Woman Loves a Man,” “God Bless the Child,” “Strange Fruit,” and "Crazy He Calls Me", Billie’s song will linger long after the curtain comes down. This production also features a live band! Sponsored by WFJA & WWGP.

Showtimes

Thursdays at 2pm

Fridays at 7:30pm

Saturdays at 2pm & 7:30pm

Sundays at 2pm

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Meet Jenece Upton, our Lady Day

Chicago actress to make her Temple Theatre debut as Billie Holiday, recreating one of the jazz legend’s final performances in a small, rundown Philadelphia bar just months before her death.

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UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

February 28, 2023 - 7:30pm

GOSPEL SINGER. PERFORMER. HISTORIAN. EDUCATOR.

Mary D Williams has traveled to hundreds of colleges and universities, several hundred public schools, hundreds of churches, libraries, and several Civic Education Consortium trainings, and Programs for the Humanities & Human Values for public school teachers’ institutes, several of them week-long training sessions for teachers. Performances for the United States Congress, lecture/performances for Civil Rights symposiums in Montpelier, France, concerts in the North Carolina State Capital as well as concerts for men and women that are incarcerated in the State and County penitentiaries, benefit performances for Cancer patients, domestic violence and homeless victims. 

March 23, 2023 - 2pm

March 25, 2023 - 7:30pm

"Moments With Paul" is a powerful spoken and sung retrospective on the life of the 20th century Renaissance Man, Paul Robeson. 

Journey through the life of the great Renaissance Man, Paul Robeson. You will hear about the life of this athlete, scholar, lawyer, actor, singer and human, civil and worker's rights activist. Mr. Robeson used his fame as a performer to speak out against discrimination and for human rights. Interwoven throughout the stories and monologues are over 30 of Robeson songs sung (including his famous rendition of Old Man River) by Jason McKinney (Winston-Salem). Mr. McKinney is accompanied by Christopher Bagley (Greensboro). 

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