Scenic Designer Hannah Beachler on Infusing The Wiz with Black American Culture
The production designer Hannah Beachler has left her visual mark on several landmark works of Black cinema and storytelling in recent years, including Moonlight, the 2015 Rock film Creed, Beyoncé's Lemonade and Marvel's Black Panther. It feels entirely appropriate that Beachler's first-ever theatrical project would be a revival of The Wiz, the historic celebration of Blackness on Broadway, now in its final weeks…