Jeanine Tesori

The Broadway musical soundtrack was made in collaboration with Roundabout Theatre Company under their new Broadway Records label imprint Roundabout Records. The show is about Caroline Thibodeaux, a Black woman working as a maid for a Jewish family in 1963 Louisiana, as the civil rights movement is transforming America.

A performance by the Washington National Opera. Conducted by Roderick Cox. "In Harlem, a couple celebrates the birth of their firstborn--a boy, Black and beautiful. As the mother worries for their son's future in today's America, the father wrestles with his role as a police officer, a "Black man in blue." When the unimaginable happens and the son is killed by a white officer, they must face every family's worst fear." --

Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love....

Louisiana, 1963: A nation reeling from the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy assassination. Caroline, a black maid, and Noah, the son of the Jewish family she works for, struggle to find an identity for their friendship. Through their intimate story, this beautiful new musical portrays the changing rhythms of a nation. Tony Kushner and composer Jeanine Tesori have created a story that addresses contemporary questions of culture, community,...