Rejoice!

The history of gospel music has influenced much of today’s popular music and is intertwined with the African American struggles and triumphs of the 19th and 20th centuries. Using the music of gospel master Thomas Dorsey, playwright Cheryl L. West gives audiences the tale of a family of evangelist who struggles between the patriarch’s drive to uphold tradition and the younger generation’s need to make their own kind of music. Rejoice! is a vivid glimpse of the import, and impact, of this unique American art form.