Star-Studded Closing Performance and Cast Encourages Voting at Billie Holiday Theatre production

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Nov. 8, 2016 - PRLog -- A star–studded line up attended the closing production of Billie Holiday Theatre's New York Premiere of Richard Wesley's AUTUMN over the weekend. Celebrities included Power's Omari Hardwick, Empire's Morocco Omari and TV Personality Deborah Roberts.  To a standing ovation, the AUTUMN cast consisting of stage, tv and film heavy-weights reminded the audience to vote.

Tapping the genius of Richard Wesley and the vision of acclaimed director Walter Dallas, Autumn explores the conflicts that arise when aspirations collide across generational, racial and gender divides marking sharply different political agendas against the needs of the people. AUTUMN rips the band-aid off of political posturing and shows just how sinister campaigns can get when ambition supersedes service.

Cast included: Jerome Preston Bates (Seven Guitars, Stickfly, Peeples), Terria Joseph (Empire, Cornerstone), Brent Langdon (House of Cards, The Program), Dorian Missick (Southland, Deliver Me From Evil, Zoe Ever After), Count Stovall (A Streetcar Named Desire, Driving Miss Daisy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and Pauletta Washington (Beloved, The Watsons Go to Birmingham).  Rounding out the cast was newcomer playwright and actor, Lekethia  Dalcoe.

Note: Images are available, upon request.

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The Billie Holiday Theatre (BHT) was founded in 1972 by Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration), a community development corporation whose mission is to be a catalyst for the progressive improvement of the quality of life for the people of Bedford Stuyvesant. BHT focuses on the discovery of new voices within the African Diaspora.  We seek to enlighten, entertain and educate with programming that resonates across cultural and generational barriers, and challenges social perceptions.
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