Stories by Salamishah Tillet

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31 stories by "Salamishah Tillet"

When Culture Really Began to Reckon With White Privilege by Salamishah Tillet

Black artists didn't wait around for institutional change. They are making it happen.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:18am on December 9, 2020☆⚑

Claudia Rankine Looks at White Privilege From 35,000 Feet by Salamishah Tillet

How 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 11:48am on February 26, 2020☆⚑

Charles Fuller Never Expected Broadway. At 80, He's Arrived. by Salamishah Tillet

The 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.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:24pm on February 11, 2020☆⚑

He Took Her Parts in 'Fires in the Mirror.' All 29 of Them. by Salamishah Tillet

Why Anna Deavere Smith handed Michael Benjamin Washington a revival of her breakthrough 1992 documentary solo show about the Crown Heights race riot.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18am on November 1, 2019☆⚑

One Fateful Night with Donny Hathaway by Salamishah Tillet

The bio-play "Twisted Melodies" aims to remind us of his timeless musicianship and unsettling personal struggles.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:54pm on May 27, 2019☆⚑

For Lorraine Hansberry, 'A Raisin in the Sun' Was Just the Start by Salamishah Tillet

The new documentary "Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart" explores a more complex and complicated playwright than the civil rights figure known to most people.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:43pm on January 12, 2018☆⚑

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