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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill starring Audra McDonald hits the West End in June 2016

Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winner Audra McDonald will make her long-awaited West End debut this summer portraying legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the musical play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. The critically acclaimed production will play a limited engagement at the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre from 25 June to 3 September, having broken box office records at the Circle in […]

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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill – Circle in the Square, New York

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill continues at the Circle in the Square theatre, New York, until 1 June. In an arresting note in the programme for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, playwright Lanie Robertson explains ‘Why I Wrote the Play’. “In 1959,” it says, “a boyfriend of mine saw the great Billie […]

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