The Father Ho Lung and Friends musical Ruby (also called Ruby Magdalene, to make an analogy with the Magdalene of the Bible) is making its third public appearance. The first two productions were decades ago and many years apart. It has improved.
The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 56th of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. Many purists consid.
DESPITE packing the halls islandwide, producers of roots plays have long complained that they are ignored by mainstream Jamaican theatre. On August 20, however, they honoured their own at the inau.
AS a playwright for more than 40 years, writing dialogue is second nature for Basil Dawkins. Yet, he was speechless when the call came that he is to be a recipient of the Order of Distinction (OD).
From April 7 to 24, Braata Productions, a company dedicated to plays of the Caribbean and its diaspora, will present the New York live theater premiere of 'God's Way,' a play of dramatic realism by Dahlia Harris, a leading playwright of the island of Jamaica.