Crowns

Miami, FL – January 2011 – Featuring Tony Award-winning Broadway, TV and recording star Melba Moore (Hair, Purlie, Timbuktu), CROWNS delivers the gospel on hats! A play with music staged by M Ensemble, now celebrating 40 years as Florida’s oldest existing black theater company, Crowns was written by Regina Taylor, and based on Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry’s book Crowns, Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, the stunning stage adaptation highlights the role of hats in Southern black culture, the endurance of black women in the South, and the unconquerable urge for self-expression. Lively speeches, songs, dances, and dramatic action shape this touching story of one young woman’s journey and a community’s sacred history.