Brass Birds Don’t Sing

Set in the 1950s, a journalist on the hunt for the next big scoop threatens to ruin the lives of two Jewish sisters who are trying to rebuild their lives after the Holocaust.
Format: Staged reading

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Premiere presented by Burning Coal Theater Company, Raleigh, NC, November 15, 2001. Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, Dunwoody, January 19 to February 13, 2005.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:

Samm-Art Williams

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