Transition as a noun means "the process or period of changing from one state to another." As a verb it means "to undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition." Both definiti…
The convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the political uprisings resulting from the anti-Black violence that killed George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade last year (as well as th…
Questions of "canon" have haunted me throughout my theatrical education and subsequent professional career. As a precocious young child obsessed with the performing arts, I searched and sear…
"It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts." This quote by musician Oscar Levant is what opens the film Spook. Based on a solo stage piece by the same name, written and pe…
Introducing the real Ma Rainey. Ahead of the premiere on December 18, 2020 of August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, it is important for audiences to realize that Ma Rainey is not a …
A daughter confronts her police officer father. An absurdist game show tries to determine who is the most Black. A candidate for district attorney confronts her traumatic past. A sex worker …
In his 1996 speech, "The Ground On Which I Stand," acclaimed playwright August Wilson charged the American theatre industry to take seriously the funding and producing of Black theatre. This…
By Hana Sharif, Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. For the last episode of season two of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley talk with Hana S.
By Hana Sharif, Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. For the last episode of season two of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley talk with Hana S.
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. In this episode, Daughters of Lorraine Podcast hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss how Black playwrights, such as Adrienne Kennedy, Tarrell Alvin M…
When I first encountered Adrienne Kennedy, through her Obie award winning 1964 play Funnyhouse of a Negro as a student in graduate school, I was surprised I had never heard of her. After …
By Kevin Stephen McAllister, Vaughn Ryan Midder, Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. The Daughters of Lorraine Podcast hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss the advent of We See You, White…
By Renea Brown, Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. Daughters of Lorraine Podcast hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview actress Renea Brown on the interactions between Black theatre and …
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. In this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss "What is a Black musical?" using James Baldwin's Amen Cor…
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. The Daughters of Lorraine Podcast returns for another episode where hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridely discuss Lorraine Hansberry's life, legacy, and othe…
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley, Otis Ramsey-Zoë. For the final episode of the first season of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview dramaturg and d…
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss the transformative power of Aleshea Harris' What to Send Up When it Goes Down by centering Black rage, ritua…
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. In this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley focus on representations of slavery on stage by Black playwrig…
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. On this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley review Arena Stage's production of August Wilson's Jitney, …
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. For this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley focus on the histories and enduring legacies of lynching dram…
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. On this first episode of Daughters' of Lorraine Podcast, Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey discuss Woolly Mammoth's production of Fairview by Jackie Sibb…
Theatre is an integral part of society. It is often the mirror that society uses to see its reflection. Oftentimes, that reflection isn’t always pretty. Though this art form has all…
There is nothing new about African-Americans composing musical theatre. From timeless classics like Porgy and Bess to the smash hit Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk, Black artist…
“Powerful” is the best way to describe the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter organization was started by three Black women activists:Â Alicia Garza, P…
August Wilson‘s Seven Guitars will be performed at Two River Theater from September 12, 2015 to October 4, 2015. The play, part of Wilson’s famous Pittsburgh Cycle, chro…