Alums of two recent acclaimed Off-Broadway musicals will perform at Theatre Communications Group's , honoring playwright David Henry Hwang and North Carolina Black Repertory Company's National Black Theatre Festival. James Jackson, Jr. will perform "Memory Song" from Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop, and Billy Bustamante and Alyse Alan Louis will perform a selection from Soft Power, written by Hwang and Jeanine Tesori.
The event, set for February 3 at the Edison Ballroom, will also feature Phenomenal Maya playwright Nambi E. Kelley and producer Stephen Byrd, who will salute NBTF Artistic Director Jackie Alexander and Board President Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin.
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