When asked what drew them to Ruby’s story, Nate Jacobs, the director of Ruby the Musical and artistic director of Westcoast ...
Ruby McCollum sat in a courtroom where the truth of her story was almost erased, but the Black press made sure that would never happen. In 1952, the story of a Black woman in Florida who killed a ...
It’s a mostly sung musical inspired by the true story of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman (thanks to her husband’s gambling operation) who killed a prominent white doctor and politician in ...