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Why It's Important That a Black Actress Play Jimmy Carter

By REGINA ROBBINS

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

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Playwright Susan Lambert Hatem talks about her unconventional political history play --- A young man wants to know how it really went down in "the room where it happened." No, it's not a scene from Hamilton; it's from Susan Lambert Hatem's play Confidence (and The Speech), currently running at Theatre Row. Like Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical,...

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How Three Diverse Creators Brought a Musical About Racial Strife to Life

By JANICE C. SIMPSON

Monday, November 11, 2019 • Playwriting • 1 comment Share This

Mon Nov 11, 2019 • Playwriting • 1 comment Share This

The unusual development of Broadbend, Arkansas --- It's ironic that Broadbend, Arkansas -- the new two-person musical about an African-American father and daughter grappling with the personal impact of racial oppression in the '60s and '80s -- started off as a monologue about an elderly Southern white woman living in a nursing home during the pre-civil...

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This Is Not Another Slave Play

By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II

Friday, November 08, 2019 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

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The immersive Black History Museum takes a satirical look at 400 years of the African-American experience --- Regardless of how you identify, The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America at HERE Arts Center will probably make you uncomfortable. An immersive theatrical experience, the show/exhibition takes audiences on...

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Why Is This Woman Covered in Fur and Caged?

By DIEP TRAN

Thursday, November 07, 2019 • Playwriting • 2 comments Share This

Thu Nov 7, 2019 • Playwriting • 2 comments Share This

After almost a quarter century, Migdalia Cruz's FUR has its belated New York premiere --- Migdalia Cruz, who turns 61 this week, wrote FUR when she was in a very different place in her life. First staged in Chicago in 1995, the absurdist romance about a fur-covered woman has been produced all over the world, including in Turkey and Egypt. After almost...

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If You Think You Know Tina Turner's Story, You're Wrong

By KELUNDRA SMITH

Wednesday, November 06, 2019 • Playwriting • 5 comments Share This

Wed Nov 6, 2019 • Playwriting • 5 comments Share This

How the musical Tina reveals new facets of the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll --- When Tony-nominated playwright Katori Hall was approached about penning the book for Tina, the new Broadway musical about legendary singer-songwriter Tina Turner, she initially worried there might not be anything new to say. "Because she has lived her life as an open book, I...

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Finding the Drama in Cooking and Conversation

By GERARD RAYMOND

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Wed Oct 30, 2019 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Richard Nelson continues his poignant exploration of a changing America with his latest Rhinebeck Panorama play --- Don't come to The Michaels hungry -- at least not for food. As with the previous naturalistic dramas in writer-director Richard Nelson's Rhinebeck Panorama (The Apple Family Plays tetralogy, The Gabriels trilogy), his latest play at...

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Putting the Refugee Experience on Stage

By JONATHAN MANDELL

Thursday, October 24, 2019 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Thu Oct 24, 2019 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

This season, a striking number of new (and returning) plays are exploring the plight of the displaced --- Arian Moayed, who was only five years old when he and his family left post-revolutionary Iran, was so moved by "the incredible images and heartbreaking stories" coming from asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border that he felt compelled to do...

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