The Obie and AUDELCO Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre founded in 1972 by Restoration, as a not-for-profit theatre whose mission is to present the exquisite, ever-evolving and complex diversity of voices within the African Diaspora as world-class storytelling for the community. The Billie is one of the last remaining theaters forged in the Civil Rights/Black Arts Movements and the only theatre run by people of color in the cultural mecca of Brooklyn.