15 stories by "Jordan Ealey"
I could not help but root for these two lost and lonely souls to find solace in each other.
Transition as a noun means "the process or period of changing from one state to another." As a verb it means "to undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition." Both definiti…
The convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the political uprisings resulting from the anti-Black violence that killed George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade last year (as well as th…
Questions of "canon" have haunted me throughout my theatrical education and subsequent professional career. As a precocious young child obsessed with the performing arts, I searched and sear…
"It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts." This quote by musician Oscar Levant is what opens the film Spook. Based on a solo stage piece by the same name, written and pe…
Introducing the real Ma Rainey. Ahead of the premiere on December 18, 2020 of August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, it is important for audiences to realize that Ma Rainey is not a …
A daughter confronts her police officer father. An absurdist game show tries to determine who is the most Black. A candidate for district attorney confronts her traumatic past. A sex worker …
In his 1996 speech, "The Ground On Which I Stand," acclaimed playwright August Wilson charged the American theatre industry to take seriously the funding and producing of Black theatre. This…
When I first encountered Adrienne Kennedy, through her Obie award winning 1964 play Funnyhouse of a Negro as a student in graduate school, I was surprised I had never heard of her. After …
Theatre is an integral part of society. It is often the mirror that society uses to see its reflection. Oftentimes, that reflection isn’t always pretty. Though this art form has all…
There is nothing new about African-Americans composing musical theatre. From timeless classics like Porgy and Bess to the smash hit Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk, Black artist…
“Powerful” is the best way to describe the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter organization was started by three Black women activists:Â Alicia Garza, P…
August Wilson‘s Seven Guitars will be performed at Two River Theater from September 12, 2015 to October 4, 2015. The play, part of Wilson’s famous Pittsburgh Cycle, chro…
Photo by Bill Brymer. Courtesy Actors Theatre of Louisville August Wilson’s work is getting a lot of much-deserved love and attention this upcoming theatre season. Actors Theatre…
What if…”What’s Love Got To Do With It,” the 1993 movie based on the life of Tina Turner, was adapted into a musical? Picture this. You're seated in a Broadway theatre an…
