We Three Queens

Written & Directed By Billy Ray Brewton
Music By Flannery Whaley

September 5-21, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sunday Matinees at 2:30pm

Performed at Theatre Downtown

In the 1980’s, Cosmos was the biggest pop group in the world. Javelin, Comet, and Goldstar were household names. After sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll tore them apart, each found a new purpose in life. For Javelin, it was Jesus and family. For Comet, it was K-Mart and her mother. For Goldstar, it was her two minimally-talented sisters. Years later, when each is at rock bottom, the idea of a reunion tour becomes a reality, forcing each of them to face their demons, embrace the music within, and get over their petty grievances for the good of music itself.

Assistant Directed By Alex Jenkins
Swing: Sara James

Featuring: Jalen Brown, Bates Redwine, Ken Saunders, Jonathan Goldstein, Isaiah Pierce, Penny Thomas, Lori Mercer, Julie Meadows, Joshua Eubanks, Lee J. Green

Billy Ray Brewton is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. His plays include: A Beast/A Burden (Hollywood Fringe Festival; Off-Broadway So-Ho Playhouse); The Xmascist, Must Come Down, After School Special, and The 13th Friday: Ready, Set, Die! Musicals include: Country Roses: The Musical, Dragula: The Musical, Skanks in a One Horse Town, and We Three Queens. He has written stage adaptations of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, and John Dryden’s Marriage-a-la-Mode. Most recently he directed Red Light Winter for Los Angeles’s Catharsis Theatre Collective and Son-of-a-Bitch, an award-winner at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the horror film, Show Yourself (available on Tubi) and produced the 2025 documentary, Coroner to the Stars. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and is the co-founder of Birmingham’s Theatre Downtown.