Porchlight Music Theatre presents "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill"

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:21:00 -0600

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson’s starring Alexis Rogers as Billie Holiday and directed by Porchlight Artistic Associate Rob Lindley with music direction by Jaret Landon takes the audience to 1959 in a small bar in Philadelphia. Around midnight, the lights go down and the show of a lifetime begins. Witness one of last performances of the world’s greatest chanteuse, Miss Billie Holiday, intimately given four months before the passing of this tragic musical superstar. With her stellar jazz trio, she revisits her life, loves and losses in more than a dozen quintessential, thrilling and gut-wrenching numbers. It’s a salty, sensual, often humorous, and always riveting portrait of the legendary lady and her legacy of music.

The 12th Annual Chicago Comedy Sketch Festival

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:29:00 -0600

Celebrating its 12th year in Chicago as the nation's largest sketch comedy festival, the Chicago Comedy Sketch Festival welcomes more than 1000 artists in 169 performances over eight days. Performances include local, national and international talents performing in solo, group and children's productions.

Performances take place Thursday - Sunday with multiple performances taking place at one time all at Stage 773.

WBEZ | Stage 773

Porchlight Music Theatre presents "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill"

The 12th Annual Chicago Comedy Sketch Festival