SHOWSTOPPER by Angela J. Latham
Sunday, May 31 at 6:30 PM
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St.
Joy grew up with lots of rules, including ones against showbiz. Somehow, she ends up with a career in theatre anyway. SHOWSTOPPER takes place in a theatre where Joy and younger versions of herself reprise and/or watch the unlikely performances that led to her agency and artistry. The play takes inspiration from the words of Patti Smith, “You have to live your whole life continuously.”
Angela J Latham is an author, theatre artist, and teacher. She moved to Texas in 2022 to be near family and to have new creative adventures. Naturally, she joined ScriptWorks as soon as she got to town. Before that, she was a professor of theatre and performance studies in the Chicago area for many years. Her essays and performance texts have appeared in Theatre Journal, Performance Matters, Streetlight, Contrary, Dress: Journal of the Costume Society of America (in press), and others. She is the author of Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls and other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s.
Angela performed an abbreviated, solo version of SHOWSTOPPER in FronteraFest 2025.