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An Evening with Sarah Jones

Presented by Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) at Rice University - Hamman Hall

May 15, 2010

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Houston Museum of African American Culture presents An Evening with Sarah Jones, Saturday, May 15, at 7:30pm in Rice University, Hamman Hall, 6100 Main St. Houston, TX (Entrance 21 off Rice Blvd).

Sarah Jones is a Tony Award winning playwright and performer. Her multi-character solo show Bridge & Tunnel was originally produced Off-Broadway by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and went on to become a critically acclaimed, long running hit on Broadway. Based on a piece commissioned by the National Immigration Forum and the Ford Foundation, Bridge & Tunnel examines the lives of a diverse group of immigrants from various backgrounds framed by one event: an annual poetry reading.

Surface Transit was Sarah's first off-Broadway solo show, which drew upon the diverse group of people in her family and neighborhood growing up in Queens, and was loosely framed by her Q46 bus commute to school. Sarah wove the stories of a multicultural cast of characters into a cleverly connected narrative filled with unexpected twists that explored community, prejudice, violence, art and activism in late 20th century New York. Surface Transit won a Helen Hayes Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, having been presented at The American Place Theater, Performance Space 122; The Kennedy Center's AFI Theater; the Berkeley Repertory Theater; and The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

For Houston, Ms. Jones will perform a stirring production which examines Jewish and African America relations in America developed especially for the Houston Museum of African American Culture.