The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 is new play adapted by Reginald Andre Jackson
from the book by Christopher Paul Curtis.
It’s 1963 and the Watsons, an African-American family, journey from Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama to take their troublesome son, Byron, to live with his grandmother, a trip that lands them in one of the darkest moments in America’s racial history. A fictionalization of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Curtis’ novel won the Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Awards.
The show runs Sunday, January 23 and 30 and February 13, at 2:30pm. For more information visit MainStreetTheater.com
