PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- "FIRE!!" is one hot production, featuring music, dancing and poetry at Mt. Airy's historic Sedgwick Theatre.

"It is inspired by the work of Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston," says Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Director of "FIRE!!". "From the Harlem Renaissance."

In 1926, those writers and other artists published a groundbreaking magazine called "FIRE!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists".

"'FIRE!!' was the name of the magazine, but the irony was there was never another one because all of those issues were burned in a fire," she says. "Someone burned down the building."

The play weaves together the lives of the legendary artists.

"With the fictional premise that they are putting on a gala for the evening," she says. "They needed to raise money for t

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