BLACK GOLD
(National New Play Network World Premiere)
by Seth Rozin
Directed by Christopher Zinovitch
October 22 – November 15
Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7:30pm
Sundays (Oct 26th, Nov 2nd & 9th, 3pm)

What happens when an African-American man living in Detroit’s inner-city purchases an oil rig on eBay and discovers one of America’s largest oil reserves right under his own backyard? Will the poor get rich or will the rich just get richer? 

View the BLACK GOLD trailer on YouTube!

Christopher Zinovitch (ArtsWest Director of Theater and Education) directs six actors playing over 80 roles in the World Premiere of this fast-paced, vaudevillian satire of class, race and greed in a country that will go to dangerous lengths to keep the cheap crude flowing. 

Click here to read ArtsWest's Interview with Playwright Seth Rozin.

The award-winning BLACK GOLD (2008 Smith Prize, Best New Play) is the perfect play for the days immediately preceding – and following – the 2008 presidential election. 

BLACK GOLD features performances by Nancy Calos-Nakano, Beth A. Cooper, Alex Garnett, James Lyle, Aaron Washington and Bob Williams.

Recommended for ages 17 and older – adult situations. 

“[Seth] Rozin has crafted a complicated work for insane times, a new-century cautionary fable that ...leaves us laughing all the way to oblivion.”
– W. Rosenfeld, Philadelphia Inquirer

BLACK GOLD is made possible in part by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture

Original Artwork by Theresa Neinas.
Photo: Bob Williams and Alex Garnett face off in Black Gold at ArtsWest. Photo by Matthew Durham.