SpeakEasy Stage Company
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Roberts Studio Theatre - 527 Tremont Street
May 2 – May 31 2025“A play as equally affecting as it is hilarious!”—Entertainment Weekly
2024 Tony Nominee – Best Play! It’s a hot summer day in 2019, and in Harlem, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding salon is open for business, even though its eponymous owner is hours away from getting married. Presiding over the shop’s team of talented, high-spirited, West African designers is Jaja’s daughter Marie, a DREAMer who has set her sights on college. When shocking news disrupts the day’s festivities, the women must grapple with what it means to be outsiders in the place they call home.
“A play as equally affecting as it is hilarious!”—Entertainment Weekly
2024 Tony Nominee – Best Play! It’s a hot summer day in 2019, and in Harlem, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding salon is open for business, even though its eponymous owner is hours away from getting married. Presiding over the shop’s team of talented, high-spirited, West African designers is Jaja’s daughter Marie, a DREAMer who has set her sights on college. When shocking news disrupts the day’s festivities, the women must grapple with what it means to be outsiders in the place they call home.
Duration
90 minutes with no intermission
SIGNIFICANT DATES
- Post Show Conversations: Sun. 5/11 at 3pm, Th. 5/29 at 2pm
- Blackout Performance: – Fri. 5/16 at 7:30pm
- Open Captioning: Sat. 5/17 at 7:30 pm, Sun. 5/18 at 3 pm
- Audio Description: Sat. 5/24 at 2 pm, Fri. 5/30 at 7:30 pm
- Relaxed Performance: Wed. 5/28 at 7 pm
CONTENT ADVISORY
Some strong language
Recommended for Ages 12+
Presented By:
Speakeasy Stage Company
SpeakEasy Stage is a non-profit theatre company located in the South End of Boston. Led by award-winning Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault, we produce 28 weeks of new plays and musicals each season at the Nancy and Ed Roberts Studio Theater in the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont St
The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.
Directions and parking for the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
