19 stories by "Soraya Nadia McDonald, Soraya Nadia McDonald"
It's the summer before the 1997-98 basketball season and the Lady Train, a standout high school team from a remote warren of southeast Arkansas, is in pursuit of a state title. But, as with …
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw has a reputation for tap dancing on third rails, cemented by previous works such as Job, Prophet, and Thomas & Sally " yes that Thomas and that Sally.* With Th…
Men these days are Not OK. American men, like their counterparts around the globe, are in crisis. They are succumbing to deaths of despair, struggling with alienation and are responsible for…
Suzanne Alexander, much like the woman who created her, has been waiting for a small eternity to be heard. Alexander, the character at the center of Ohio State Murders, is the brainchild…
With every performance of Paradise Square, star Joaquina Kalukango has brought down the house with a teary, snot-nosed, full-throated rendition of "Let it Burn." Sunday night, America witnes…
One of the first things a photography student learns about is a concept known as depth of field. If a person focuses a lens on an object in their foreground, they must compromise on renderin…
It was bound to happen. A producer or two was going to witness the money-printing, multiyear grip Hamilton had on Broadway and pop culture at large and try to replicate it with another multi…
It's taken nearly 20 years and Ja-heez-us knows how many rewrites from book writer, lyricist and composer Michael R. Jackson, but A Strange Loop has finally bewitched Broadway. The 2020 winn…
Amid a plague, both of disease and revanchism, Monday morning's Tony nominations announcement offered history-making and hope with a bevy of stacked categories. Tony winners Adrienne War…
The Scottish play might be a tragedy, but that doesn't mean it can't be loads of fun. A new Broadway production of Macbeth opened April 28 starring James Bond " sorry, Daniel Craig " as Macb…
Two years after playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson was named the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in drama, his musical, A Strange Loop, is finally making its "big, Black and queer" Broa…
In the world constructed by Dominique Morisseau in her new off-Broadway play, there are two kinds of confederates: the ones who think you're too radical, and the ones who don't think you're …
A new group is aiming to make a sea change on Broadway by vaulting Black people into some of its most powerful positions. Broadway producers Barbara Broccoli (Once, The Band's Visit), Li…
A new group is aiming to make a sea change on Broadway by vaulting Black people into some of its most powerful positions. Broadway producers Barbara Broccoli (Once, The Band's Visit), Li…
After a global pandemic made for the most calamitous year in the history of American theater, actor Adrienne Warren and playwright Katori Hall are among the many Tony nominees who will final…
After a global pandemic made for the most calamitous year in the history of American theater, actor Adrienne Warren and playwright Katori Hall are among the many Tony nominees who will final…
There was a time when Black dignity on screen wasn't guaranteed. It had to be fought for and insisted upon, repeatedly. And Cicely Tyson, who died Jan. 28 at age 96, led a generation of path…
There was a time when Black dignity on screen wasn't guaranteed. It had to be fought for and insisted upon, repeatedly. And Cicely Tyson, who died Jan. 28 at age 96, led a generation of path…
For most of 2020, the artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage has been thinking about the future in six-week chunks. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the entire economy into disarray, th…
