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Pastor, entrepreneur and author T.D. Jakes on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to http://blacklistproject.comPastor, entrepreneur and author T.D. Jakes on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to... more
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Guitarist Slash remembers Michael Jackson on The Black List Vol 1. For more head to http://blacklistproject.comGuitarist Slash remembers Michael Jackson on The Black List Vol 1. For more head to... more
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Hip-hop producer, composer and MC RZA on The Black List. For more head to http://blacklistproject.comHip-hop producer, composer and MC RZA on The Black List. For more head to... more
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Actor Maya Rudolph on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to http://blacklistproject.com
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Activist Majora Carter on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to http://blacklistproject.comActivist Majora Carter on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to... more
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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to http://blacklistproject.comMassachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to... more
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Suzanne De Passe remembers her days working with the Jackson 5 on The Black List Vol 2. For more head to http://blacklistproject.comSuzanne De Passe remembers her days working with the Jackson 5 on The Black List Vol... more
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The Black List Project reveals the diverse experiences of being black in America through interviews and portrait sessions with leading African-American figures. For more head to http://blacklistproject.com/The Black List Project reveals the diverse experiences of being black in America... more
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"Broadway is more than just the theatre. It is one of the major elements in New York’s economy. When Broadway is down, New York is in trouble. Broadway is always all-hands-on-deck.
This has helped to create in the under-subsidised American theatre a long and distinguished history of black practitioners who have worked in the cauldron of the commercial sector, who, in fact, would not dream of working anywhere else.
Through a network of theatres, critics who write about black theatre, and showcases such as Black2Broadway, ideas are forged, relationships made, money is raised, all aimed at the Great White Way.
This vigour and “Yes we can” spirit creates the inevitable hits and misses, but, above all, everyone steps up to the plate. Thus Broadway has been re-invigorated, even re-invented by productions like Allen’s, born in an open environment of the possible.
Here in Britain, we, too, have a smaller but just as determined and talented cadre of producers and would-be producers full of zeal who work in the commercial realm or in a mixture of the commercial and subsidised.
Unfortunately, we have a problem that America does not: British theatre along with many theatre critics too often only recognise the subsidised theatre as the place and indeed home of “proper” black theatre practitioners.
Of course, this is never said aloud and would be vigorously denied, but the fact is evident. Like an exclusive club, the subsidised theatre “chooses”, and its choices, while largely artistic, can also have other criteria. These other criteria can often determine the content of a play or production, that content playing a large part in whether the production happens at all.
This approach can sometimes limit the scope of the work, causing the young in particular to self-select before approaching a subsidised theatre. The mature and the mid-career who might have other things to say that might be off the grid are not encouraged. This creates an environment of “the Chosen”, as well as a serious talent drain...""Broadway is more than just the theatre. It is one of the major elements in New... more
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A short film about the issues that divide and unite Africans and African Americans. Featuring students from Century Community and Technical College of White Bear Lake and Arlington High School of Saint Paul.A short film about the issues that divide and unite Africans and African Americans.... more
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I'm a self-taught artist. This is a sample of my work. I love to work in many mediums. I have had to put my art aside for a while to take of my elderly parents but I have to get back to business. My spirit is calling out for it. so I made this to motivate myself.I'm a self-taught artist. This is a sample of my work. I love to work in many mediums.... more
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"A Massachusetts regional music theater that has gone out of business will finally see one of its original musicals reach Broadway.
"Memphis," which premiered at the North Shore Music Theater in 2003, will open Oct. 19 on Broadway.
The musical tells the story of a white Memphis DJ who brings "race music" to the segregated South.
Former theater artistic director Jon Kimbell tells The Salem News it's the first time in the theater's 54-year history that one of its shows has made it to Broadway.
The defunct Beverly theater is scheduled to be sold at an Oct. 1 foreclosure auction. Officials announced in June that it had to close due to a $10 million debt.
"Memphis" played in LaJolla, Calif., and Seattle before earning a spot on Broadway.""A Massachusetts regional music theater that has gone out of business will finally see... more
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"Seated around a large table during the first week of rehearsal for "The Night Is a Child," director Sheldon Epps guides his actors' investigation of a scene between an American woman and the hotel owner she encounters in Brazil. He asks them about the differences between Boston and Brazil, the grayness versus the color, and the contrasts that these first scenes must embody.
With a cast led by JoBeth Williams, Charles Randolph-Wright's "The Night is a Child" opens Friday in its West Coast premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse, where Epps is artistic director. The play revolves around the experience of Williams' Bostonian, and that of her family, in the wake of a Columbine-style killing spree by one of her sons.
Key characters in this play are a white woman and her family. The director happens to be black, as does the playwright. Should it matter?
If the answer seems simple, recent dialogue in the theater community suggests otherwise. What Epps has created in this Pasadena rehearsal room is largely the exception. A theater that facilitates artists of any race or ethnicity working on plays about characters of any race or ethnicity is far from the norm.
In fact, since spring, when a revival of August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" opened on Broadway, the American theater has been engaged in a racially charged discussion of who should direct what. Should white artists direct plays that are black in authorship and subject? And by extension, should black -- and Latino, Asian, mixed-race and other -- directors be hired to stage plays written by white authors? Such are the questions being posed.
"I don't think there is a simple and satisfactory answer," says black playwright Lynn Nottage, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Ruined." "This conversation is part of our cultural growing pains, and it's one of the many steps in the road to defining our creative and cultural identity."
The controversy was ignited when Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher was tapped to helm the Wilson revival. Wilson, who died in 2005, had insisted that only black directors stage his work. But his widow, Constanza Romero, approved the choice of Sher, who is white. This production marked the first time a Wilson play had been directed by a white director on Broadway. And black artists have voiced concern about the precedent.
"The conversation around 'Joe Turner' has been a catalyst," says Laura Penn, executive director of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, a union for theater artists. "Yes, there was conversation about it as an aesthetic choice, but the conversation among our members quickly moved to access and opportunity."""Seated around a large table during the first week of rehearsal for "The Night Is a... more
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