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Opinion Shakespeare in the Park with an All-Black Cast is Still Played Out The Merry Wives of Windsor is on stage this summer in Central Park.
Few today would question a Black man cast as Shakespeare’s Moor in Othello, but it wasn’t always like that. There are likely many reasons fair-skinned men always got the role, one being a ...
This PBS special combines poet Caroline Randall Williams’s narration with dances by the Nashville Ballet and music by Rhiannon Giddens to propose that the ‘Dark Lady’ of Sonnet 130 was black.
Q: Shakespeare’s Globe is built near the Bard’s original playhouse, and you’ve put him onstage. And yet, the play feels very contemporary. A: Shakespeare was hugely experimental.
There's been a movement in the U.S. since the 1990's to cast more Black actors in Shakespeare. But the once-popular trend of colorblind casting is giving way, in many quarters, to calls for color ...
Theater & Dance ‘Red Velvet’ spotlights a pioneering Black actor who played Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production tells the story of Ira Aldridge, an American actor in 1833 London ...
Ms. Williams, 31, didn’t start as a poet. She grew up in Nashville wanting to act in Shakespearean plays. But she couldn’t find multilayered stories about black women in that repertory.
A portrait of William Shakespeare was removed from Fisher-Bennett Hall and replaced with a photo of Audre Lorde, a black female writer, it was reported Tuesday.
Mawa Theatre Company is a Shakespeare company with a difference—the UK’s first to be comprised of Black and Black mixed race women. Founded by actors Maisey Bawden, Gabrielle Brooks, Danielle ...
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