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Apr 13, 2021 Candis C. Jones and Erika Dickerson-Despenza Joseph Marzullo/WENN
The Public Theater presents the world premiere of Erika Dickerson-Despenza s audio play
Shadow/land April 13 as part of its spring digital theatre season. The play is available for free, on-demand streaming at Public Play Now as well as on all podcast platforms.
Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza is the Public s 2019-2020 Tow Foundation playwright-in-residence and a Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and Lilly Award recipient. She recently won the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for
cullud wattah, which was meant to debut at the Public last year but was canceled due to the pandemic.
Image: Paula Lobo
A Sun Ra tribute concert by a member of the pathbreaking pop group Labelle leads to reflections on how Black women artists and scientists have often been at the vanguard of their disciplines though most are still awaiting due recognition.
This essay is featured in
Boston Review’s new book,
Ancestors.
On the last night of Black History Month, February 29, 2020, I attended a concert held in the Temple of Dendur, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art the last such event that I would attend, it turned out, for a very long time. Those who have visited the room will know that it resembles a massive display case: a pavilion-like wall of glass exposes the temple to the sky, and a reflecting pool frames it below. On this night, the temple glowed lavender in the dark behind 600 folding chairs that had been set up to face a makeshift stage. A DJ played songs like Parliament’s “Mothership Connection (Star Child)” while four d
Ephraim Birney and Maggie Bofill in
The Sound Inside Pedro Bermudez
Broadway may be closed, but virtual theatregoers are about to get as close as possible to seeing a current Tony-nominated play. TheatreWorks Hartford will present an on-demand streaming production of
The Sound Inside April 11â30, starring Maggie Bofill and Ephraim Birney.
Written by Adam Rapp,
The Sound Inside follows Yale creative writing professor Bella Baird and her brilliant-but-guarded student Christopher Dunn. When Bella faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with Charlie, setting in motion a haunting look at what one person can do for another.
The production is co-directed by TheaterWorks Hartford Producing Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Pedro Bermudez. Serving on the creative team are set designer Lawrence E. Moten III, costume designer Alejo Vietti, lighting designer Amith Chandrashaker, and composer Billy Bivona with sound record