Alabama Story

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones.

A gentle children's book with an apparent hidden message stirs the passions of a segregationist senator and a no-nonsense state librarian in 1959 Montgomery, just as the civil rights movement is flowering. Inspired by true events, Alabama Story puts political foes, star-crossed childhood friends, and one feisty children's author on the same page to conjure a Deep South of the Imagination. This love letter to reading – a finalist in the 2014 National Playwrights Conference – coincides with the 50th anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.