His name gained popularity in the 1990s for masterfully providing a bellyful of laughter to the masses. After spending decades in the wings, roots play legend Balfour Anderson is back in the spotlight with Jamaican Hustlers. “ Jamaican Hustlers.
The Everton Dawkins-led Jamaica Roots Theatre Foundation held its second annual Roots Theatre Awards on Saturday in Ocho Rios, inducting four stalwarts into the newly created Roots Theatre Hall of Fame. Garfield ‘Bad Boy Trevor’ Reid, Daphne ‘Mae’.
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.