Chiaroscuro

National Black Theatre sets sail at the Flea with the NYC premiere of a nautical expedition by the late Aishah Rahman, a playwright and author associated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The play looks at colorism within the Black community, as manifested on a singles cruise—stewarded by an incranation of the African trickster spirit Papa Legba—on which all the men are considered undesirably dark-skinned. Abigail jean-baptiste directs a cast that includes Paige Gilbert, Ebony Marshall-Oliver, Lance Coadie Williams, Sidney DuPont, Gayle Samuels, Abenaa Quïïn and TL Thompson. (A limited number of "Pick Your Price" tickets, ranging from $5 to $25, are available at each performance.)