HE WROTE IT AT THE END BUT IT'S ABOUT THE BEGINNING AND IT IS SUCH A POWERFUL PLAY.

DIRECT BIDE CHUCK SMITH WITH FABULOUS PERFORMANCES MANY AND WHAT IT DOES IT GOES -- IT'S SET IN PITTSBURGH BUT IT IS A STORY OF A WOMAN WHO IS 280 OR 300 YEARS OLD WHICH MEANS SHE CAME OVER ON THE EARLY SLAVE SHIP AND THE YOUNG BLACK GUY FROM THE SOUTH WHO HAS COME NORTH AND SHE HAS TO TEACH HIM A LOT OF LESSONS.

AND SHE DOES IT IN WHAT IS ALMOST LIKE AN OTHER RHEA ABOUT THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE OCEAN AND TO THIS CITY OF BONES WHICH IS WHAT SHE CALLS IT.

BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO THE SHOW I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY THE STORY.

IT IS ABOUT A HOUSEHOLD IN PITTSBURGH AT A ROUGH TIME AND YOU GO AWAY AND YOU THINK THAT YOU'VE BEEN I DON'T KNOW, RAISED.

THAT IS THE BEST WORD.

>> THAT IS A RINGING ENDORSEMENT SET IN PITTSBURGH.

AND RELENTLESS AT TIMELINE THEATRE WHICH IS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE YOU CALL PERHAPS A BURGEONING AUGUST WILLSON SUCCESSOR.

>> SHE IS A FEMALE AND I THINK SHE MIGHT BE THE FEMALE ALTERNATIVE TO AUGUST WILLSON.

SHE WROTE A PLAYSET IN 1919 AND ABOUT AN ASPECT OF BLACK CULTURE CALLED THE BLACK VICTORIANS.

ALTHOUGH THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND PARENTS WERE INVOLVED IN SLAVERY, THEY ARE FREE AND FOR VARIOUS REASONS, THEY'VE BEEN EDUCATED AND THEY ACTUALLY NOW ARE PART OF THE BLACK ELITE.

AND IT'S ABOUT TWO SISTERS ABOUT TO EMPTY THE HOME OF THEIR MOTHER AND IN A SERIES OF DIARIES THEY FOUND OUT THE TRUTH OF THE PAST WHICH THEY NEVER KNEW AND IT IS A FASCINATING PLAY BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND BEAUTIFULLY ACTED.

DIRECTED BYRON ENABLED PARSON AND I THINK IT'S ONLY GOING TO RUN FOR EIGHT OR NINE DAYS I HOPE PEOPLE WILL SEE IT.

>> THEATRE WEEK AT THE TIMELINE THEATRE.

NEXT WOMEN OF SOUL.

IT IS SORT OF A TRIBUTE TO ALL THE GREAT SOUL SINGERS IN HISTORY ROCK HISTORY ARETHA FRANKLIN AMY WINEHOUSE BUT MORE THAN A MUSICAL REVIEW, CORRECT?

>> IT IS IT'S BEAUTIFULLY PUT TOGETHER IT IS A LITTLE BIT ON A TIME-FRAME FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE LATEST.

AND HOW ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT THE WOMEN WERE SOME RELIGIOUS, SOME HIPSTERS, IT IS A VERY, VERY -- >> JANICE JOPLIN.

>> AND EACH OF THE ACTRESSES CAPTURE THE SOUND OF THE SINGER'S VOICES THAT WE KNOW SO WELL.

AND AT THE END OF THE SHOW THERE IS A TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLIN.

>> ARE ALL THE WOMEN SOUND ALIKES FOR THE LIKES OF MAVIS STAPLES AND JANICE JOPLIN?

>> THEY HAVE REALLY HAVE CAUGHT THE TIMBER OF THE VOICES AND THE PERSONALITIES AND THEY ARE DRESSED UP TO THE 9s.

AND I THINK IT IS A SHOW THAT IS REALLY WORTH SEEING.

>> THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF FUN.

WE HAVE BLUES IN THE NIGHT.

THIS IS ONE THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE.

TELL US ABOUT THIS ONE AND THE SONGWRITERS REPRESENTED HERE?

>> IT HAS.

THIS ONE HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE EARLY 1980s AND IT'S SET IN 1938, THE END OF THE DEPRESSION ABOUT THREE WOMEN ALL AT DIFFERENT AGES AND ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS.

LOVE AFFAIR PROBLEMS, MONEY PROBLEMS, LIFE PROBLEMS IN GENERAL.

AND THEY ARE ALL LIVE IN SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOTELS A HOTEL THAT WAS ONCE POSH BUT NOW ON ITS HEELS.

AND THEY SING AND IT SORT OF FOLLOWS THE LINE OF THEIR LIFE AT THE MOMENT.

AND SO ALL THE SONGS ARE BLUES SONGS AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS SONGS THAT THEY SING.

AND THEY ARE FABULOUS.

FELICIA FIELDS AND DON LYNN, AND PAT KENNEDY AND THE THREE ARE WONDERFUL AND THERE WERE TWO GUYS.

ONE WHO IS A DANCER WHO IS KIND OF THE BACKDROP FOR THE WHOLE THING AND A SINGER AT THE HOTEL WHO HAS ISSUES WITH GIRLS.

>> LET'S MOVE ON TO "WEST SIDE STORY" AT THE MARRIOTT LINCOLNSHIRE.

WE KNOW ABOUT THE STEVE VEP SPIELBERG ADAPTATION HOW DOES THIS STACK UP?

>> I HAVE NOT SEEN THE "THIS IS A ROBBERY"VIE U THIS IS AN INTIMATE SPACE IN THE REALM AND THE DANCING WHO DID SOME OF THE DANCE SETTINGS FOR PARADISE SQUARE WHICH IS GOING TO BROADWAY IS TERRIFIC.

AND THE VOICES ARE GREAT AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO HEAR BERNSTEIN, SONDHEIM TUNES AGAIN.

>> THEY DO ELABORATE PRODUCTIONS AT MARRIOTT.