The Billie Holiday Theatre has announced details for its 2024-25 season. ... Award-winning actor, singer and writer Daniel Koa Beaty’s critically acclaimed one-person show, ...

Desiree Montes first played Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" in a 2014 Theatre Downtown-Greater Orlando Actors Theatre co-production. ... the actor has found more to dig into.

NEW BERN, N.C. – Billie Holiday, known for her unique and haunting voice, seemingly lived several lifetimes in her short 44 years. New Bern Civic Theatre’s upcoming show Lady Day at Emerson ...

Billie Holiday builds herself up, then melts down. Story by Naveen Kumar • 5mo. A jazz trio grooves onstage, swapping solos like small talk as patrons settle in at cafe tables.

Megan Rivers sat down with Tanea Renee, a Baltimore-native actress portraying another Baltimore native, the legendary Billie Holiday, at Baltimore Center Stage.

Singer/actor Thomasina Petrus revisits her signature role as jazz icon Billie Holiday. Subscribe. Log In. Minnesota News You Can Use.

Thomasina Petrus first connected with Billie Holiday in 1986, when she was 15. "That's the year my grandmother died. She kind of raised all of us," said Petrus, who plays Holiday in "Lady Day at ...

Billie Holiday had reasons to sing the blues. Abandoned by her father and raised in Harlem by her often-unemployed mother, “we were starving,” Billie recalled. But she learned how to survive.

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer, she closed the event with an effortlessly sophisticated 11-song set ...