Another way Abraham researched the evening-length work, set to run Nov. 13 at the Byham Theater, was by hosting an event with friends of his late parents. In 2018, as part of a residency with what’s now the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, he gathered friends and family members to talk about “the way [his parents] loved each other.”
Abraham’s mother died in May 2016 and his father five years before that. He remembers feeling the love from the community the first time his company, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, performed in Pittsburgh after his mom’s passing, and the love he felt from the city when Nov. 10 was declared “Kyle Abraham Day” in 2017.
“This is not only probably the most upbeat, celebratory work I’ve ever made,” he says.
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