Rhapsody in Black
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Sunday, Sep 25, 2022 2pm
- Saturday, Sep 24, 2022 8pm
- Friday, Sep 23, 2022 8pm
Location
TPAC - Tennessee Performing Arts Center
505 Deaderick St
Details
Written and performed by LeLand Gantt and developed at NYC’s Actors Studio by Estelle Parsons, Rhapsody In Black is a one-man show that explores LeLand’s personal journey to understand and eventually transcend racism in America. We follow his life story – from an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, to teenage experiments with crime and drugs, to scholastic achievement and an acting career that lands adult LeLand in situations where he is virtually the only African American in the room. His efforts to cope with the various psychological effects of consistently being marked “The Other” are recounted in remarkable and exquisitely moving detail, guaranteed to leave lasting impressions.
