Photo Flash: New Colony/Definition's BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI Extends Through February 21

Due to popular demand, The New Colony and Definition Theatre Company's critically-acclaimed drama BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI will add one additional week of performances, extending through Sunday, February 21, 2016 at The Den Theatre's Upstairs Main Stage, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. There will also be an added performance on Sunday, February 14 at 7:30 pm. Tickets for all performances are currently available at www.thenewcolony.org.

Check out photos from the show below!

Written by The New Colony's Co-Artistic Director Evan Linder and directed by Definition Theatre's Tyrone Phillips, this searing new drama features Jeffery Owen Freelon Jr., Kiki Layne, Evan Linder, Liz Sharpe and Cecelia Wingate.

Jim and Laurel Parker are about to become new parents. They are broke. They are loud. They are "proud white trash." When Laurel finally gives birth to their overdue child, she and Jim are faced with the biggest challenge of their lives: their baby boy is black, the result of Laurel's affair the previous year. The lives of their families and friends are thrown into turmoil in Byhalia, Mississippi, a town with a racially-charged past that still affects its present.

BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI debuted as part as of a unique "world premiere conversation," with full productions opening in Chicago, Toronto, ON, Memphis, TN and Charleston, SC the same weekend, followed by staged readings in three additional cities and culminating in an international online talkback on Monday, January 11, 2016 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day). For additional information, visit the active blog at wpconvo.com.

The production team for BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI includes: John Wilson (scenic design), Kotryno Hilko (costume designer), Slick Jorgensen (lighting design), Gary Tiedemann (sound effects), Kira Lyon (props design), Liz Sharpe (hair and make-up design), Kat Zukaitis (dramaturg), Eli Grove (technical director), Sarah Collonge (production manager), Maria Privitera (script supervisor) and Clarissa Jugo (stage manager).

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