OnyxFest Theater Festival

Presented by the Africana Repertory Theatre of IUPUI (A.R.T.I.) in conjunction with IndyFringe. Productions will be staged November 3-5 at IndyFringe Basile Theater and Crispus Attucks Auditorium November 10-12.

This year’s line-up of plays are as follows:

–TIGONIE by Levi Frazier Jr. A man whose checkered past comes back to haunt him. A tale of regret, repentance, and reconciliation. Religion and hypocrisy surface.

–5 MOODS OF BLACK ANGUISH by Josiah McCruiston. Inspired by the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and August Wilson. Spoken word, prose and sermonettes explore the pain and glory of a people with unconquerable spirits.

–THE HEART OF A MAN by Ardre Orie. An all-male cast stage production that reveals the eye-opening and sometimes harsh truths on dating, marriage, sexuality, domestic violence, and love, from the male’s perspective.

–RIGHT BEHIND YOU by Deborah Patrick. Generations of women reflect on contrasting experiences as the elder of the family is dying of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic.

–BABE by Delores Thornton. Based on a true story. Therapy helps reveal the buried truths of an 82-year African American woman who reaches inner depth of self-realization.