
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Broadway)
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Lanie Robertson’s brilliant contemporary drama with music 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill' made a spectacular, historically monumental Broadway debut at the Circle in the Square Theatre in 2014, earning near-universal critical adulation and running for over 150 performances. The raw, real-time psychological narrative unfolds inside a gritty, smoke-filled Philadelphia lounge bar in 1959, tracking jazz icon Billie Holiday as she executes one of her final, tragic solo concert performances, weaving her signature multi-platinum song catalog with unvarnished, liquor-fueled monologues detailing racism and addiction. Five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald made history by winning her sixth statue for this performance.

