WRITTEN BY
Harrison David Rivers
BASED ON THE BOOK BY
Geoff Dyer
DIRECTED BY
Lou Bellamy
But Beautiful
May 20 through June 13, 2027
A horn player looks back on an archetypal jazz life: flashes of genius, dark episodes, and friendships with musical greats. Adapting Geoff Dyer’s landmark novel, playwright Harrison David Rivers (This Bitter Earth, Weathering) explores the 20th century’s defining genre through the minds of those who made it.
This evocative memory play mirrors the rhythm of the music itself, creating an impressionistic tapestry of the jazz world, its mysteries, and its personalities.
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