The Secret Life of Bees is presented in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, Lauren Shuler Donner, Marianne Mills, Bob Cohen, Hugo Six and Atlantic Theater Company. Directed by Whitney White and based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, this production “deserves to generate a real buzz” ( The Telegraph). Written by playwright Lynn Nottage, composer Duncan Sheik and lyricist Susan Birkenhead, The Secret Life of Bees is “buzzing with delights” ( The Times) and features “performances of real star quality” ( WhatsOnStage).

When this unlikely pair flee their small town, they seek salvation at a remote honey bee farm run by the remarkable Boatwright sisters.

Rosaleen is fighting for her right to vote, and Lily is escaping her violent father. The Telegraph, Independent, The Times, The i, Financial Times, Daily Mirror, WhatsOnStageįrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Sweat, the Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening, and Tony Award-nominated lyricist of Jelly’s Last Jam comes a “vibrant new musical” ( The i) full of “astonishingly powerful music” ( The Guardian) about a group of women ignited by rebellion and longing for acceptance.ġ964, South Carolina.

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