Walking around downtown Philadelphia, James Ijames reflected on his new play, “Good Bones,” gentrification and the absence that “haunts the cities.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM“Wicked,” which arrives to the big screen this fall, redeems the villain who is barely a character in L. Frank Baum’s classic novel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThe veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMSuzan-Lori Parks’s play is the latest work by a Black writer seeking to prioritize Hemings’s life and perspective to make her fully dimensional.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMA new adaptation shows how rich Alice Walker’s novel is and how the source material can lend itself to unconventional storytelling.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMThe stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young and the director Kenny Leon discuss the revival, and why its satirical take on racism is still so timely.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMCorey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II discuss their electrifying performances in the Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMAs she makes her Broadway directorial debut, she said her “vision is about seeing a deeper way into” what August Wilson intended with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PMThe actress, nominated for a Tony Award for her magnetic performance in “Macbeth,” is drawn to female characters who challenge the status quo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMThe female protagonists in “Trouble in Mind,” “Caroline, or Change” and “Clyde’s” show the richness that comes from having a multitude of Black voices onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMThe “Pass Over” playwright’s bold decision to alter her play’s ending was essential, she said, to convey the message that “we as a people need to heal.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMBy staging Kathleen Collins’s rich psychological portraits of Black women, a theatrical group aims to enlighten, heal and inspire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMOscar-nominated performances this season put the emphasis on the trauma, not the artistry, of Billie Holiday and Ma Rainey. The most insightful movie might just be “Soul.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:44AMBlack artists didn’t wait around for institutional change. They are making it happen.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMHow do you turn a magazine article about air travel and race relations into theater? For “Help,” Rankine’s new play, she started with a pile of letters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThe creator of “A Soldier’s Play” has largely written for black theaters. But now he has the chance to remind the biggest audiences: African-Americans served, too.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMHow does who you are affect how you see this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama? Two critics finally have the talk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe bio-play “Twisted Melodies” aims to remind us of his timeless musicianship and unsettling personal struggles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMThe new documentary “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” explores a more complex and complicated playwright than the civil rights figure known to most people.
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