Night Cities: A Bayard Rustin Ritual

A young Bayard Rustin-before Civil Rights Movement fame must choose between his private desires as a queer black man and his public calling as an agent of social justice and civic change.

Set against the vibrant labor movement of the 1930s and 40s, this piece embraces the musicality, dream imagery, and liberation of jazz playwriting to explore one man's quest for complex humanity in a world that limits who we are to how we can be used for the good of others.