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Little Rock Connection: Arkansas Rep takes Maria & Rosetta out to the park
Arkansas Rep takes ‘Marie & Rosetta’ out to the park
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Eric E. Harrison
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Today at 1:00 a.m.
Director Steve H. Broadnax III rehearses with Miche Braden (left) as Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Johnique Mitchell as Marie Knight for “Marie & Rosetta,” which the Arkansas Repertory Theatre is staging outdoors in Little Rock’s War Memorial Park.
(Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Thornton)
En route to Broadway, director Steve H. Broadnax III is making a stop in his home town of Little Rock.
Broadnax, who directed the 2019 production of Native Gardens at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, is taking on another Rep project: Marie & Rosetta by George Brant, playing through Aug. 1 in a tent on the grounds of Little Rock s War Memorial Park.