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Martin effectively channels jazz great in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill’
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“) Channeling the great jazz singer Billie Holiday has proven to be Sharon Martin’s forte. When she last performed the title role in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill five years ago, Martin garnered raves for her performance as the beaten-down and drug-addled singer. The…
Jazz singer Sharon Martin channels Billie Holiday in ‘Lady Day’
Alison Fensterstock, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Settle into your seat at the Juju Bag Café and, as jazz singer Sharon Martin turns from words to song, close your eyes and listen. Martin’s re-creation of singer Billie Holiday’s voice — which can’t be easy to conjure — is eerie in the production of “Lady Day at…
Sharon Martin is ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill’
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer – Of Beat Magazine Vocalist and actress Sharon Martin reprises her role as the legendary Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” to be staged every Friday and Saturday night in July (starting on July 7) at Sweet Lorraine’s. Directed by the noted Tommye Myrick,…
A stellar ‘Lady Day’ staged at Pontchartrain Landing
ENTERTAINMENT by: LBJ WGNO NEWS Posted: Apr 26, 2019 / 04:38 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 26, 2017 / 05:28 PM CDT NEW ORLEANS — For the next month, the Pontchartrain Landing Supper Club hosts the award winning stage production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.” Sharon Martin as Billie…
Billie Holiday is ALIVE and Well!
Noted Award Winning Director, Miss Tommye Myrick, has managed to very elegantly morph unsuspecting New Orleans audiences back in time with her presentation of the stage play/musical “LADY DAY at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”. The island-vibes at Gentilly’s The Juju Bag Cafe serves as picturesque backdrop while the wind blows in your hair, tiki torches…
Tommye Myrick is the Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum
Tommye Myrick is the Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture, and History. The museum, damaged during Katrina, has re-opened in Treme, an early African-American faubourg. Tommye describes the museum and explains the “Code Noir” (Black Code) that was the law defining the conditions of slavery when the French governed…
Tommye Myrick’s historical drama ‘Le Code Noir’ premieres in Congo Square Oct. 13-15
“Le Code Noir,†producer and director Tommye Myrick’s historical drama, starts in just the right place for its epic story. The outdoor historical drama premieres in Congo Square this weekend. That’s also the setting for the opening scene, where Santee, a 17-year-old woman with an infant, is being sold at a slave auction. “That’s part…
Tommye Myrick’s mission is to tell more Black stories
Sign up for Verite’s free daily newsletter and get the New Orleans news you need every weekday. Director and producer Tommye Myrick lived in Pontchartrain Park, but she spent most of her time growing up in Treme. She attended McDonogh 35 Senior High School and at the age of 18 was accepted into the Free Southern Theatre,…
The Show Must Go On
Break a leg: Director Tommye Myrick steps in capably for injured Sandra Anderson Richards in Myrick’s presentation of Dinah Was … Tommye Myrick has been keeping a secret from us. But now, due to a nasty twist of fate (and of ankle), the secret is out: this lady can act. In fact, she is as formidable…
Trodding the Boards 2019 in Review
The Year in Review I wish I could say that the 2019 theater season in New Orleans was exciting and provocative and rip-roaring and outrageous and edge-of-your-seaty and challenging and all sorts of other superlatives. But I can’t. Sure, there were many good shows as well as bad ones, some fantastic productions (which I’ll get…