Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door, a play with original songs, is about a highly educated and successful Black man who descended from victims of slavery, Jim Crow, and lynching. In one sleepless night, visits from the man’s deceased brother, grandfather, and great grandfather force him to relive his family’s history from 1850 to 1995 and to come to terms with his identity and the effect of the past on the present. In Blue Door, according to Variety, “demons are faced with humor and incisive metaphors.” The Seattle Times called the play “razor-sharp, funny and poignant . . . alternately ironic and touching.”

Blue Door is produced by Perisphere Theater, a professional Silver Spring-based company whose mission is to produce plays that examine personal and collective history and the notion of history itself. The play is directed by Henery Wyand and features DeJeanette Horne and Jaucqir LaFond.