Tonight’s performance of Penelope has been cancelled (Thursday, April 18 at 8PM). If you had tickets to tonight’s performance, the Box Office will be reaching out with options for your tickets.
News: People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. – The Washington Post
If you think there are some stories that simply can’t be set to music, well, try this one on for size: a pair of upstanding black sisters in 1890s Texas pass for white — and become bank robbers.
Now, imagine this is not simply one of those middle-of-the-night epiphanies that flickers on out of nowhere, but is rooted in fact. Or rather, in the legend passed down from one generation to the next in a black American family that revels in the mystery of how much of it — if any — is true.
Which is why it may be just right for the stage.
Read the full article on WashingtonPost.com.
Gun & Powder runs through February 23, 2020.
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