Jubilee Theatre
506 Main StreetFort Worth TX, USA
(817) 338-4204
www.jubileetheatre.org
About Jubilee Theatre
Located in downtown Fort Worth, Jubilee Theater thrills audiences with exceptional plays and musicals reflecting African-American culture. Performing in an intimate, 100-seat space, Jubilee Theatre has a reputation for offering outstanding original works and adaptations with incredible musical performances.
Upcoming Openings
Home for the Holidays
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 4, 2009 - Sunday, December 27, 2009
When a group of travelers get stranded in the airport over the holidays, each one has their own story to tell about where they are headed and from where they have come. Among the group is a soldier eager to return home to his family and the hero’s welcome that awaits him. ...more info
From the Mississippi Delta
Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 5, 2010 - Sunday, February 28, 2010
The journey begins in Greenwood, Mississippi—the Delta. Born in a rundown, drafty shotgun house to a poor but resourceful black woman, no one could have predicted the odyssey that would become Ida Mae Holland’s life. Curious, smart and precocious, young Ida learned from her mother how to dream big dreams, for herself and others, in their impoverished Delta community....more info
One Mo’ Time - An Evening at the Lyric Theatre 1926
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, May 2, 2010 - Tuesday, May 25, 2010
This long running Off Broadway show revived, to acclaim in the 2002 Broadway season, has audiences rockin’ the rafters and dancin’ in the aisles, thrilling to this artful recreation of old time, 1920’s Black vaudeville. This show’s powerful mix of music, including the Charleston, the black bottom, and the cakewalk, had one reviewer proclaiming “the mercury leaves the thermometer. One Mo’ Time is a hot, wild, ribald and rousing delight."-- Time Magazine.
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Reviews October 2009
Review of Sam Shade: A Detective Musical
With Sam Shade: A Detective Musical, Jubilee Theatre went old-school ¯ meaning back to the days before the 2005 death of founder and artistic director Rudy Eastman, when he and musical collaborator Joe Rogers regularly created clever ...more info
Preview of The Gospel Queen
In the Jubilee's continuing playlist of celebrating the African-American experience, The Gospel Queen focuses on one of gospel music's greatest sensations, Mahlia Jackson. Sheran Goodspeed Keyton embodies the iconic singer's ...more info
Review of The Bluest Eye
Adapting a Toni Morrison novel, with her vivid descriptions and poetically contorted narratives, can''t be an easy assignment. But playwright Lydia R. Diamond has done it right in her faithful and highly theatrical take on ...more info
Preview of The Bluest Eye
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940's Ohio. Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved by her family and schoolmates. Instead, ...more info
Preview of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange's unique, award-winning tale of the African-American woman's journey in America was first performed in Berkeley, California, in 1975. Taking For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf to ...more info