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The Visual and Performing Arts Theatre at Texas Southern University

presents The Break of Day, written by Dr. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. The

play explores the ways in which a family heals after the death of a

loved one. The all-male cast struggles to fix what’s broken in the

family after the death of the matriarch, who was accustomed to holding

the family together. This is a play about men helping to heal each

other in common and uncommon ways. When the play had its first

professional production, the Chicago Tribune titled its

review, “Break of Day” breaks with black family stereotypes” and the

reviewer noted, “The crime, poverty, violence and drugs so often

depicted as part of the black male experience are absent here, yet

Brown-Guillory also doesn't offer a rosy and warm Cosby Show approach.

The characters find themselves reeling from ‘remembering things that

take you back and knock the hell out of you’”. The Texas Southern

University production of The Break of Day is being directed by Dr.

Dianne Jemison-Pollard, Professor of Theater and Associate Dean for

Academic Affairs of the Thomas F. Freeman Honors College.

Showings: February 16-18 and 24-25, 2012 at 8:00pm

February 19 and 26, 0212 at 4pmLocation: Ollington Smith Playhouse located on the campus of Texas

Southern University adjacent to the Granville Sawyer Auditorium.

Tickets are $5.00 general admission and may be purchased at the door.

For more information and group sales, please call the Theatre Box

office at (713) 313-7157 or e-mail the Theatre House Manager at

meloncont@tsu.edu.