BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTE

Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute presents

‘Call Mr. Robeson’

Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9

SEATTLE –Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute will present Call Mr. Robeson, an award-winning play that received a standing ovation at New York's Carnegie Hall in February 2012, as part of Black History Month at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9. United Kingdom fringe theater website Fringe Review gave the performance five stars and calls it, “A stunning piece of musical theater ” Tickets are available via the Langston Institute’s website at www.langstoninstitute.org or by phone at 1-800-838-3006.F

Written and performed by United Kingdom-based, Nigerian-born playwright and singer Tayo Aluko and accompanied by renowned Seattle pianist Darrius Willrich, this roller-coaster journey through actor/singer Paul Robeson’s remarkable life highlights how his radical activism caused his downfall. The performance features well-known songs (including a dramatic rendition of “Ol’ Man River”), Robeson’s speeches and a defiant testimony to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House Committee on Un-American Activities. Seattle audiences will be regaled with Negro spirituals and songs from the labor movement performed by local choral groups The Sound of the Northwest and the Seattle Labor Chorus.