musicals

This week Speakeasy Stage opens “Once on This Island,” a powerful musical of love, loss and purpose. Running March 11 through April 16, the show follows the journey of Ti Moune, a girl guided by island gods on a fearless journey that changes the course of history.

“It’s a coming-of-age story,” says six-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter BeBe Winans about “Born For This: A New Musical.” He continues, “Me and my sister left Detroit, Michigan. She was 15 and I was 17 and we went to South Carolina, to Pineville. My world changed. Even being in the midst of it, I knew that this would be a stepping stone for something that I could apply to the rest of my life. It turns out that was the truth.”