Past Half Remembered

Single Black Female

Lisa B. Thompson’s Single Black Female takes a comic look at the pleasures and perils of being a single middle class black woman who’s got everything she wants and needs except more R-E-S-P-E-C-T – and a man! The play mines topics such as dating (on the Internet and the old-fashioned way!), gynecology, family gatherings, shopping, racial bias, white folks and, poignantly, the odd sense of loss a black woman feels when she does find a man and leaves her single sisters behind.

Single Black Female stars Soara-Joye Ross (Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall, Dessa Rose at Lincoln Center, Dance of the Vampires on Broadway) and Riddick Marie (A House with No Walls at New Repertory Theatre, Faust at the Metropolitan Opera). Director Colman Domingo, whose acting credits include Well and Passing Strange on Broadway, has directed productions at Geva Theatre and the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Rep.

Playwright Lisa B. Thompson is the author of Monroe; Dreadtime Stories: One Sista’s Hair; and her newest play Underground.

New Professional Theatre – the New York-based company that is home to minority playwrights and theatre artists – presents the limited Off-Broadway return engagement of Single Black Female, back by popular demand.

Length of performance: TBA
Intermission: Yes
Age appropriateness: 13 and up

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