The National Center of Afro-American Artists will offer its seasonal production of Langston Hughes’s “Black Nativity” at the Paramount Center in Boston, starting on Dec. 2 and continuing through Dec. 18.

With a cast of nearly 75 youth and adults, Black Nativity captures and shares the joy of the Christmas season with energetic dancing and gleeful youth and adult voices in the language of ordinary Black people as imagined by the Harlem Renaissance poet.

Black Nativity is powerfully informed by the legacy of Boston’s arts visionary Elma Lewis and the collaborations that she forged with other leading institutions, including Northeastern University, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Emerson College.

The song-play will be performed at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with matinees at 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

The Paramount Center is located at 559 Washington St., Boston. Tickets are available through the ArtsEmerson Box Office in person or online at blacknativity.org.