Moments later, Roz White is smiling behind the mic as Billie Holiday, a pro who knows how to hit her mark. We’re in Philadelphia, a city Billie admits she hates because she was once arrested ...

September 13, 2024 3 min Roz White as Billie Holiday in Mosaic Theater Company’s production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.” (Chris Banks) Review by Naveen Kumar ...

Billie Holiday rose to prominence in 1939 headlining at Manhattan’s Café Society, America’s first integrated nightclub. The price of that fame was to be stalked by law enforcement and the media.

Billie Holiday in 1958. Photo: Don Huntstein/Sony Music Entertainment In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell.

Discussed in this essay: Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year, by Paul Alexander. Knopf. 368 pages. $32. E arly on in Billie Holiday’s 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues, ...