"These are my friends," Billie Holiday (Anya Nebel) tells her accompanist (LeVar Betts), gesturing at the audience. It is March of 1959, and Holiday will be dead in four months. She's singing at Emerson's Bar & Grill, in Philadelphia, a city she doesn't care for at all; but what Holiday is really doing is both […] The post Review: ‘Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill’ at Anacostia Playhouse a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PM on July 17, 2017