plays
Robey Theatre Company releases nine scripts by Black playwrights in publishing venture
October 9, 2020For 26 years, the Robey Theatre Company has made its mission to tell the stories of the Black global diaspora on stage. It is now also doing so in print.
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August 28th online 65th anniversary reading of ‘The Ballad of Emmett Till’
August 26, 2020The Fountain Theatre has a long and esteemed history of producing and often premiering plays addressing the African-American experience, as well as other topics from a socially progressive standpoint.
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‘In the Heat of the Night’ on radio and streaming free
June 11, 2020The L.A. Theatre Works audio theater recording of John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night, adapted for the stage by Matt Pelfrey, will air on radio stations across the country.
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‘Taming the Lion’ tells the story of openly gay MGM actor William Haines
March 17, 2020A world premiere play that recently opened at Theatre 40 here tells the story of William Haines, at one time renowned as the world’s Number 1 Box Office male movie star.
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‘Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s’: On- and offstage lives
March 9, 2020Award-winning playwright Madhuri Shekar is the latest in this venerable lineage, injecting a female, (South Asian) Indian, and 21st-century sensibility with her idiosyncratic take on the iconic Grecian legend.
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