Tony Award winner LaChanze will direct Alice Childress’ Wine in the Wilderness in her New York directorial debut. The production is part of Classic Stage Company’s 2024-25 season, which will also include William Inge’s Bus Stop, directed by Jack Cummings III and featuring, for the first time, an all-Asian American cast.

In Wine in the Wilderness, set against the backdrop of the 1964 Harlem riot on a hot summer night, fortune has smiled on artist Bill Jameson—his friends have just introduced him to a model for the final piece of his triptych on Black womanhood. But this woman, Tomorrow Marie, is no mere muse, and she’s about to give Bill much more than he bargained for. Wine in the Wilderness is a rarely seen play from Childress, whose drama Trouble in Mind was recently presented on Broadway, starring LaChanze. Performances will run from March through April 2025.

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