{"id":391040,"date":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391040\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","slug":"coco-queens-brings-a-story-of-sisterhood-to-highland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391040\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCoco Queens\u201d Brings a Story of Sisterhood to Highland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Coco-Queens-Colorado-Boulevard-Newspaper.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-365268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Coco-Queens-Colorado-Boulevard-Newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"four women on a theater poster\" width=\"990\" height=\"610\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-365268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside In Theatre premieres \u201cCoco Queens\u201d (Photo \u2013 Outside In Theatre)<\/p>\n<p>Need a break from election stress, or just life in general? Catch the world premiere of a play that captures the soul and beauty of Black women\u2019s lives at Highland Park\u2019s Outside In Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>By Melanie Hooks<\/p>\n<p>Along with Blackgical Productions, director Jessica E. Williams and Outside In Theatre are staging Coco Queens, written by New York Times bestselling author and playwright LaDarrion Williams. The show runs through Tuesday, November 17.<\/p>\n<p>Set in 1975 Alabama, Coco Queens follows four Black women whose small-town beauty shop becomes a sanctuary as they navigate love, loss, secrets, and the complicated ties that bind them. Blending Southern humor and ancestral spirituality, the play celebrates sisterhood, self-discovery, and the power of finding your way home to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The four friends are played by Julanne Chidi Hill, who recently appeared in Boston Court Pasadena\u2019s Pericles; Mildred Marie Langford, who is also co-producing; Chanell Bell of Actor\u2019s Studio; and Sierra Nicolette Smith of P-Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Outside In Theatre is located at 5317 York Boulevard in Highland Park. <a href=\"https:\/\/outsideintheatre.vbotickets.com\/event\/coco_queens\/204133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tickets available online<\/a> for $25 for students and seniors and $40 for general admission. Mondays are Pay What You Can, with a minimum of $15 per seat.<\/p>\n<p>Select performances will include the Talk Back Series, featuring pre-show and post-show conversations to explore the play\u2019s themes with the artists and creatives behind the production and the wider community. Conversations will take place in Outside In\u2019s caf\u00e9 and lounge, The Lobby, before the show, or in the Artspace after a matinee performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Talk Back Series schedule includes:<\/p>\n<p>Nov 7: A Black Woman\u2019s Journey ft. Toccarra Cash &amp; Sophina Brown<br \/>\nNov 9: A Director\u2019s Journey ft. Andi Chapman &amp; Jessica E. Williams<br \/>\nNov 14: Playwright to Playwright ft. Dominique Morisseau &amp; LaDarrion Williams<br \/>\nNov 16: An Actor\u2019s Journey ft. The Cast of Coco Queens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside In Theatre premieres \u201cCoco Queens\u201d (Photo \u2013 Outside In Theatre) Need a break from election stress, or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-391040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}