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If you’re not feeling suicidal around the holidays (we’ve heard it’s common), there’s always homicidal. Though the family in Black Theatre Troupe’s new musical Tellin’ It on the Mountain isn’t quite trying to kill each other, the Deans are a tempestuous bunch — and trying to reunite the girl group Sister Dean for a Christmas album brings old conflicts bubbling to the surface for what the show’s publicity materials describe as a “not-so-silent” night.
BTT hopes this première, created by a superpowered team of local writers and musicians, will become an annual tradition on a par with Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, the company’s longtime holiday mainstay that’s just been released in a major motion picture version. Be there for the birth of new theater at 1333 East Washington Street through Sunday, December 22. Tickets are $35, and Saturday, December 14’s performance begins at 8 p.m. Visit www.blacktheatretroupe.org or call 602-258-8129.
Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m.; Thursdays, Saturdays, 2 p.m. Starts: Dec. 6. Continues through Dec. 22, 2013
