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City Sisters in Crime member Crystal Rhodes’ latest play, Lillian and Beulah,
will be presented each Saturday during February at the Lilly Theatre at Conner Prairie.
The play
is part of Conner Prairie’s Black Hoosiers: Untold Tales, honoring Black
History Month. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door.
Crystal
is an experienced playwright, with her plays being produced across the country,
including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She wrote Lillian
and Beulah when she was playwright-in-residence at Conner Prairie. She recently won a national playwriting competition.
The play
centers on real-life character Lillian Thomas Fox, a civic activist and
newspaper writer who rose to prominence in the late 1800s. She founded the
Indianapolis Women’s Improvement Club and was an organizing member of the
Indianapolis Anti-Lynching League. In 1900, she became the first African-American
woman in the nation to write regularly for a white newspaper, The Indianapolis News.
Well-known
local actress Gabrielle Patterson plays the part of Lillian Fox.
Patterson received rave reviews for her performance at Fringe Festival in the
Sisters in Crime play “Deadbeat.”
Remaining Performances
at February 9, 16 and 23 from 7 – 9 p.m.
Lilly Theatre is located in the Conner Prairie Welcome Center, 13400 Allisonville Road,
Fishers, Indiana.
