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HOPE RUNS ETERNAL
 
MARCH 8 - APRIL 9, 2006
Produced by:
Flat Top Entertainment
In association with the:
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and H.E.A.L.
Tickets:
$25.00 - $50.00
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A new play by veteran stage and television actor Richard Brooks, HOPE RUNS ETERNAL is a gritty slice of life drama about a mid-career R&B artist determined to make it in a youth oriented Hip Hop world. A career change is not the only problem the struggling singer faces, when into his life walks Hope, his wife’s sister. Everything changes. Set against the intriguing background of music, the mob and mayhem this new musical drama features six sizzling new original songs you won’t want to miss.

: PERFORMERS
Raymond:   Richard Brooks (Law and Order, Radio Golf, King Hedley II, To Sleep With Anger, The Crow 2: City of Angels, Good Vs Evil, Code Name: Wolverine)
Hope:   Victoria Platt Tilford (Guiding Light, Strong Medicine, CSI: Miami, Crossing Jordan)
Elaine:   Cynda Williams (Mo Better Blues, One False Move, MacArthur Park)
Johnny "Guitar"
Wilson:		   Roderick Garr (3 Strikes, Star Trek DS9)
Mac:   Roger E. Mosley (Magnum P.I., The District, Letters From A Killer , Unlawful Entry)

: DIRECTOR
Donald Douglass directed Police Boys at Playwrights Horizons; Dates and Nuts and Free Fall for the Wiessberger Foundation, the latter of which received seven Adelco nominations including Best Director; and the hit Off Broadway show Taxi to Jannah.  Regionally, he directed The Old Settler and Police Boys for the Pittsburgh Public Theater; the world premiere of Dominic Taylor's Wedding Dance for Crossroads Theater; Thulani Davis's Everybody Loves Ruby at the Mark Taper Forum; Flying West and Spunk at Penumbra Theater; I Am A Man at the Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Best Director nomination); George C. Wolfe's Spunk at Chicago's Goodman Theater, for which he was the first African American director to receive a Jefferson Award for Best Director; August Wilson's Fences for Baltimore Center Stage; The Colored Museum at Yale Repertory Theater which received the "Best Play in the State of Connecticut" award; The Piano Lesson and Fences at Rockford's New American Theater; and That Serious He Man Ball for the Chicago Theater Company.  He is currently producing and directing his first feature film, Born Again, for his company Baby Book Productions.

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