Love Jones: The Musical

Paramount Theatre
2025 Broadway Oakland

When it hit the big screen in 1997, Love Jones left filmgoers swooning over the courtship of two young star-crossed lovers set to the soulful sounds of Maxwell, Cassandra Wilson and more. Two decades later, the Larenz Tate-Nia Long romantic drama has inspired a new stage adaptation by the film's original writer-director Theodore Witcher, and featuring a musical collaboration from MC Lyte, Musiq Soulchild, Marsha Ambrosius, Chrisette Michele, Raheem DeVaughn and Dave Hollister. Love Jones: The Musical once again traces the complicated relationship between poet Darius Lovehall and photographer Nina Mosley, whose paths initially cross at a boho nightclub in Chicago. What happens after love at first sight? Find out when this stirring romantic musical hits the stage at Oakland's Paramount Theatre.