When family matriarch Gloria dies, a raucous multi-day wake begins, testing her family’s stamina and composure. Depicting the Caribbean tradition called Nine Nights, Natasha Gordon’s play “N... Read more
A dark, wonderful, and unusual musical graces Theater J at the Edlavitch DCJCC this month. “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story” threads the relationship of two refugee Romanian Jews in Canada b... Read more
Alice Walker’s pulitzer-prize-winning epistolary novel, The Color Purple, has touched millions since its 1983 publication. Furthered by Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film adaptation, which starred... Read more
Ira Aldridge, a Black American-born actor from the 19th century, was the highest paid artist in Russia of his time, knighted in Britain, and received the Pour le Mérite award from the King o... Read more
It’s time for the annual Memphis Hot Wings Festival, and this year a team of queer Black men—“New Wing Order”—is going to win it all. But as friends and family reunite to prep hundreds of ch... Read more
Clichés of butterflies or fireworks might be cute, but a kiss that spills golden light out from the heavens, accompanied by the “Hallelujah” chorus is on an entirely different level. Before... Read more
With four centuries passed, it seems likely there will be new versions of “Romeo And Juliet” for at least several centuries more. One example, “Shakespeare in Love,” imagines a William Shake... Read more
“Drumfolk” is a triumph, plain and simple. A showcase of dance and history, this production is the first of a multi-year partnership between Step Afrika!, the first professional stepping dan... Read more
Tall branches stretch skyward, a thick twisted trunk sways, and the coiled roots of an old Yew tree come walking—a monster called forth by a 13-year-old boy’s inner turmoil. Centering on the... Read more
Even if you are too young or out of the loop to know the name Gloria Estefan, you almost certainly know some of her earworm hits like “Conga” and “1-2-3.” The musical depicting her rise to f... Read more
