“These Stories Are Important to Share”: Silent Shame at the African Diaspora...
Filmmaker Dalia Tapia's debut feature, Silent Shame, premieres at the National Geographic African Diaspora Film Festival Saturday at 12:30pm: It's a well-paced drama with tough subject matter—a man...
View ArticleThe Jury of Live Theater: A Chat With A Time to Kill‘s Sebastian Arcelus
A Time to Kill is now enjoying its third life. The play is set in Mississippi in the 1980s, when two drunken white men gang rape a 10-year-old black girl. Fearing that the men will receive a mere...
View ArticleOutside the Black Box: A Chat With Robert O’Hara
photo credit, Stan Barouh Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy is rich in '80s-specific references—Jheri curls, the moonwalk, Superman underpants—but it's mostly about examining associations and stereotypes, not...
View ArticleThere Goes the Neighborhood: Why Clybourne Park Doesn’t Do Right by Its...
“There’s no way to escape the fact that I’m a racist,” Bruce Norris told New York magazine this February, two months before his play Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. During his...
View ArticleStrange as Fiction: A Chat With Trouble in Mind Director Irene Lewis
E. Faye Butler in "Trouble in Mind" At once sobering and edifying, Alice Childress’ 1957 Trouble in Mind, currently running at Arena Stage, is a biting backstage satire of the theater world of the...
View ArticleRobert O’Hara Tweaks The Mountaintop for Arena Stage Co-Production
The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s award-winning play about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the night before he was killed at Memphis' Lorraine Motel, is enjoying a post-Broadway life at Arena Stage. But those...
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