Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Porscha Shaw and the After Midnight band perform "Zaz Zuh Zaz" from The 5th Avenue Theatre Company's original production of After Midnight.
PLAYING AUGUST 4-25, 2025
Conceived by Jack Viertel
Selected text by Langston Hughes
Directed by Jay Santos
Choregraphed by Pamela Yasutake
Music Directed by William Knowles
Immerse yourself in the sultry, swingin’ Jazz Age of the Harlem Renaissance, where the Cotton Club is the place to be! Infused with the iconic tunes of Duke Ellington, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen, and more, After Midnight weaves groundbreaking jazz standards with rapturous dance and the rhythmic poetry of Langston Hughes in a jubilant production fit to blow the roof off the theater. Timeless songs like “Stormy Weather,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing” will have you leaping to your feet to join the fun.
Porscha Shaw and the After Midnight band perform "Zaz Zuh Zaz" from The 5th Avenue Theatre Company's original production of After Midnight.
PLAYING AUGUST 4-25, 2025
Conceived by Jack Viertel
Selected text by Langston Hughes
Directed by Jay Santos
Choregraphed by Pamela Yasutake
Music Directed by William Knowles
Immerse yourself in the sultry, swingin’ Jazz Age of the Harlem Renaissance, where the Cotton Club is the place to be! Infused with the iconic tunes of Duke Ellington, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen, and more, After Midnight weaves groundbreaking jazz standards with rapturous dance and the rhythmic poetry of Langston Hughes in a jubilant production fit to blow the roof off the theater. Timeless songs like “Stormy Weather,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing” will have you leaping to your feet to join the fun.
