A decade makes a difference. I had never seen a local actor play the same role in the same show 10 years apart until this weekend. And it was a revelation. Desiree Montes, who was so good in a 2014 ...

Nikka Morton as Billie Holiday in Lyric Stage's 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. (Photo by Kris Ikejiri) In the program director’s notes for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by Lyric Stage, the ...

Stageworks Theatre will close its 2024-2025 season with Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a powerful play with music that brings the story and songs of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday to stage.

Billie Holiday is onstage dwindling before our eyes, struggling to sustain the fire that brought her to this moment. She’s already told her audience, “You can only get to where you’re at by way of ...

The Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities’s Black Box Theatre has turned into an immersive cabaret as it celebrates the music of Billie Holiday with Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, the second ...

Angela Wildflower grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and has since gone on to perform in Broadway productions and popular television series. She plays the iconic jazz singer in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar ...

Actress and singer Angela Wildflower brings Billie Holiday’s story and music to life in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” an intimate and powerful musical Feb. 19-22 in Whitefish. Set in a South ...

Desiree Montes was “terrified” the first time she portrayed legendary singer Billie Holiday. That was back in 2014. Fast-forward a decade, and now Montes is set to play Holiday a fifth time in Theater ...

Angela Wildflower’s journey over the past 15 years has taken her from Los Angeles to New York and from Whitefish, Montana, to South Sudan. Now she is returning to where her career began. The Kansas ...

Playing Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson’s jazz-infused biographical one-woman show “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” is a dream for many musical theater performers. The latest to attain that dream ...

“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” is one of Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s most popular shows. The audience favorite, last performed here in 1998 and running Feb. 5- 23, is a Tony Award-winning, ...