Winner of four Washington D.C. Helen Hayes awards including Best Regional Musical, Crowns explores the lives of the “hat queens,” six women in the South whose stories of love, loss, identity and sisterhood are woven into the hats that crown their heads and the songs that speak their truth. Based on the acclaimed coffee table book, Crowns captures the thrill of self expression with a series of intimate musical portraits.

“Steamroller entertainment with a sweetly uplifting message! Both bittersweet memorial of hard times past and rousing celebration of cultural renewal present.”
- F. Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times

“DON’T MISS IT!”
“Classic gospel will have you rocking in your seats… the cast dazzles with song, dance and intimate portraits of their lives in turmoil and love.”
- Gail Choice, Our Weekly

Crowns is a co-production with Ebony Repertory Theatre in Association with Regina Taylor.
A special note about this landmark co-production for Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps:

“I am pleased and honored to enter into what I hope will be the beginning of a long and rewarding collaboration with Ebony Repertory Theatre. It is a great joy to be a participant in the Los Angeles premiere of Regina Taylor’s joyous paean to African-American women, which fits so well into the Playhouse season celebrating women onstage.”

Performances run from July 10 through August 16, 2009.

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