The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus

In a musical drama set at the 1927 Charles County Maryland Fair Grounds, playwright Steven A. Butler Jr. tells the story of how his great-great grandparents, Ollie Tyson and Ruby Dyson, fell in love, settled, and raised a family in the small town of La Plata, Maryland.

Interwoven with the intense drama is original music that will have audience members on the edge of their seats as circus performers navigate the struggles that African-American performers had to deal with in order to survive an art they loved.