Knock Me a Kiss quickly became one of the hot tickets during the 2011 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Out of the 40 plays and musicals and countless readings and workshops of other new plays, Perry Tannenbaum wrote in Back Stage, “Among the best was Knock Me a Kiss.”

Tannenbaum also wrote, “the denouement of Charles Smith’s play (was) arguably the most significant moment of the entire festival.”

Referring to the canon of Black American Theatre, Tannenbaum wrote, “Knock Me a Kiss has a fighting chance of becoming part of that black theater canon.”

It was a great production and a brilliant cast. By the morning after the first performance, tickets for the rest of the run had sold out.

Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre and Chuck Smith’s Legacy Creative Arts are currently working to bring Knock me a Kiss back to New York in the spring of 2012. Stay tuned for details.