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Actors Denzel Washington and Sharon Washington in a scene from the NY Shakespeare Festival Central Park production of the play "Richard III"
“On Sugarland”
Theatre: New York Theatre Workshop
Run: Feb. 5, 2022 - March 20,2022
“Sugarland is on precarious soil—three mobile homes line a southern cul-de-sac replete with years and years of decorative folk-art treasures and keepsakes. Young Sadie calls on generations of matriarchal ancestors to find the truth about her mother while the denizens of Sugarland rise each day to holler for the dead—conscripted soldiers lost to a greedy war—in a ritual reclamation of timeless grief.
This sweeping new work from Obie Award-winning playwright Aleshea Harris (Is God Is, What to Send Up When It Goes Down) is at once a spectacular pageant and spirited meditation on remarkable people transcending difficult circumstances. On Sugarland brings joyous life to communal healing with a glorious ensemble of 14 performers in a production directed by Obie Award winner, NYTW Usual Suspect & former 2050 Fellow Whitney White (What to Send Up When It Goes Down) and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly (Hurricane Diane, The House That Will Not Stand)”
There are soooo many ways to be black
We are so beautiful, so strong, so talented, so intelligent, so versatile, so innovative, we are excellence!
Scholastic Scope, December 6, 1973 - Five on the Black Hand Side
Call for Plays!
Hello everyone! I am looking for some new plays to talk about in my costume design class. I am currently at a school that is not very diverse and I am trying to broaden horizons by giving them something other than the same ole Shakespeare, Wilde, and Chekov.
More specifically I'm looking for something either written by a member of the queer community or members of that community are a integral part of the story. But, if you have other ideas for plays I'm all ears! I'm always looking for a good play and something different.
Currently on my list is: "Yellowman" by Dael Orlandersmith (Black woman playwright) "Silence" by Moira Buffini (white woman playwright) "Songs My Mother Taught Me" by Wakando Yamauchi (Japanese woman playwright) "The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall (Black woman playwright) "Rowing to America: The Immigrant Project" by J. Rufus Caleb, et al (many playwrights involved in this piece)
The drama will be the first show to open at the August Wilson Theatre.
In Pass Over, Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner — talking smack, passing the time, and hoping that today a miracle will come. A provocative mash-up of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga, Pass Over exposes the unquestionable human spirit of young black men who dream about a promised land they've yet to find. The drama was first presented at Steppenwolf Theatre, with Spike Lee capturing Taymor's production in a film that is currently available on Amazon Prime.
James Earl Jones, and father, Robert Earl Jones onstage during the 1962 production of “Moon on a rainbow shawl.”
The musical premiered at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons last year.
Michael R. Jackson has been named the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his musical A Strange Loop.
The semi-autobiographical piece is the 10th musical to receive the distinction, following Hamilton, Next to Normal, Rent, Sunday in the Park With George, A Chorus Line, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Fiorello!, South Pacific, and Of Thee I Sing.
A Strange Loop made its world premiere last year at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in a co-production with Page 73. The musical, inspired by Jackson's own experiences, follows a young artist at war with a host of demons—not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head—in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.