About This Show
To celebrate Black History Month, the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at Sacred Heart University presents a special performance of Raisin’ Cane — A Theatrical Portrait in Prose, Poetry and Jazz, featuring Jasmine Guy, star of stage, screen and television.
The Harlem Renaissance was a pent-up explosion of brilliant prose, poetry, politics and music of African-Americans ready to say their piece in the 1920s and early 30s. For this production, the words, thoughts and ideas of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, George Schuyler, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, W.E. Dubois, Gwendolyn Bennett, Father Divine, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many others are woven into a panoramic theatrical narrative tapestry that scans an extraordinary outpouring of artistic endeavor lasting a full decade until the Great Depression brought all to an end. Jean Toomer’s seminal work Cane, the incomparable short novel that started the sparks flying, is given its full due in this musical theater work.