Airline Highway
Lisa D'Amour 's Airline Highway, like some of her other plays ( Detroit ), looks in on the lives of fringe people, those misfits who get lost along the way and end up on the outskirts of town, making the best of being outcasts and forming their own community. The action takes place at the Hummingbird Motel, located on Airline Highway in New Orleans. The time is now, the first week in May, to be exact, when Jazz Fest takes over and bros from Michigan infiltrate the city. The motel is home to a colorful, eclectic group, most of whom have a good heart (but that's not enough to pay the bills), including Sissy ( Tony nominee K. Todd Freeman ) and Tanya (Tony winner Julie White , who also earned a Tony nomination for this performance). During the time we get to know them (as some residents of the Hummingbird will tell you, you can't really know them in one afternoon) Sissy, Tanya and the others put together a living funeral for the ailing Miss Ruby (a feisty Judith Ro...