What People Say …
What critics and audiences say about our theatre.
Black Cast Finds Universal Themes in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’
In the second of three local productions of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," audiences face the greatest challenge to their suspension of disbelief, due to simple facts of American history. The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now being...
Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre Company Announces Its 2019 Season Spotlighting Disenfranchised Communities
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre Company is proud to present its 27th season line up of "The DREAM – REALIZED." In keeping with its mission, Voices has selected a trilogy of...
A RAISIN in the SUN – A HIT
Brian Sands – Ambush “…it's like watching the Juilliard String Quartet play a work by Beethoven or Mozart” Just returned home from the Voices in the Dark/Ashe production of "A Raisin in the Sun." If you care about theatre in...
Raisin the Sun’ at Ashe Cultural Arts is Small but Mighty
By TheodoreP.Mahne,NOLA.com|TheTimes-Picayune Like the houseplant that Lena Younger dreams of carrying to her family’s long-sought new home, “A Raisin in the Sun” is a hardy perennial. Director Tommye Myrick’s new production of Lorraine Hansberry’s breakthrough drama, now marking the 60th...
Preview production of “Le Code Noir”
June 6, 2019, marks the 300th anniversary of the first slave ships arriving in Louisiana. The Historic New Orleans Collection and Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre Company, Inc., will commemorate the occasion with an abridged performance of the historical...
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...
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...
Tommye Myrick’s mission is to tell more Black stories
Director-producer Tommye Myrick started her own theater production company, Voices in the Dark, in 1992 and recently directed the play, "Fly" at the National World War II Museum as she continues her career in telling Black stories. Credit: Tommye Myrick photo by...
Tommye Myrick’s historical drama ‘Le Code Noir’ premieres in Congo Square Oct. 13-15
Photo by A.B. Sykes Photography / Provided by Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre “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...
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"...