Two productions that originated on Pittsburgh stages in the past year are headed to the International Black Theatre Festival this summer.

Headed to Winston-Salem, N.C., for the 18th biennial festival are Mark Clayton Southers‘ The Bluegrass Mile, which debuted at his Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company in October 2023, and the biomusical Blues Is the Roots: The Willie Dixon Story, a February 2024 production of the New Horizon Theater, Inc., written by Charles Dumas.

The International Black Theatre Festival, a program of North Carolina Black Rep, runs July 29-August 3, 2024, and features a selection of 120 new works, world premieres and Black classics, performed over six days by national and international professional Black theater companies at venues throughout Winston-Salem.

For details on each production at the festival, visit https://ncblackrep.org/events/blues-is-the-roots/ and https://ncblackrep.org/events/the-bluegrass-mile/.

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Tags: Blues Is the Roots, Charles Dumas, International Black Theatre Festival, Mark Clayton Southers, New Horizon Theater, North Carolina Black Rep, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, The Bluegrass Mile, Willie Dixon