Gun & Powder
Jan 28 - Feb 23, 2020Inspired by a true story, make way for the sisters Clarke in a dynamic, moving and inspiring world premiere musical of notorious outlaws who ruled the Wild West.
To help their mother settle a sharecropper debt, Mary and Martha Clarke—African American twins—pass themselves as White to seize the funds by any means necessary. However, their bond of sisterhood is tested when they fall in love with two very different men, one Black, the other White.
Award-winning director Robert O’Hara (Broadway’s Slave Play) makes his Signature debut in this soaring musical that examines race, family and identity with two electrifying women who went from farm girls to legends with gun and powder.
Performance Information
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Run Time
Running time approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.
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Content Warnings
Contains theatrical haze, one gunshot and two instances of guns pointed at audience (but not shot).
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Specialty Nights
Discussion Nights February 18 & 19, 2020
Pride Night February 7, 2020 -
GalaPro
Closed Captioning available at every performance of our mainstage shows via the free GalaPro App
Cast Members
Montel Butler
Creative Team
Sponsors
Sponsored by Deborah G. Gandy and Wells Fargo
New work at Signature Theatre is sponsored by Dan & Gloria Logan with additional support from The Reva & David Logan Foundation
Gun & Powder was a recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater and developed through the SigWorks: Musical Theater Lab at Signature Theatre.
Gun & Powder is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Virginia Humanities