Robert Townsend’s Pop-Up Film Festival benefits Chicago’s West Side branch of the NAACP and a local award-winning autism advocacy agency, The Answer Inc. Acclaimed actor and West Side native Robert ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Townsend wanted to blindly hire Beyoncé to star as Carmen Brown in the MTV film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and watched Queen ...

Robert Townsend recently opened up about witnessing Beyoncé’s undeniable spark during her very first audition for the MTV movie Carmen: A Hip Hopera. Speaking with Lena Waithe on Legacy Talk, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Rich Polk/WireImage), (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Robert Townsend saw something ...

Actor and director Robert Townsend will be joined by actor and comedian Lil Rel Howery at a weekend film festival in Chicago aimed at celebrating the city and its culture. Chicago Tonight is available ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago native has been in the entertainment business for 50 years, acting, writing, directing and producing. This weekend, Robert Townsend will be hosting a Pop-Up Film Festival at ...

Beyoncé was allegedly 'shaking' with nerves when she auditioned for 'Carmen: A Hip Hopera' in 2001, according to the director. Here's what he shared. Carmen: A Hip Hopera, directed by Robert Townsend, ...

It’s been more than 50 years since Robert Townsend started acting, but the West Side native still discusses his early experiences with plenty of details and delight. As an eager teenager, he took ...

Actor, director, filmmaker and producer Robert Townsend is bringing his one-man show ‘Living the Shuffle’ to the St. Louis region this weekend. The show will play Nov. 15-16 at The Kirkwood Performing ...

ST. LOUIS — Hollywood veteran and independent film trailblazer Robert Townsend is returning to the stage, and to St. Louis, with his deeply personal one-man show Living the Shuffle, performing two ...

A friend of mine recently issued a critic’s notebook challenge to me: Write about the most Blackfamous movie you know. I had an idea, but I thought of it so quickly that I questioned if I were right.

Robert Townsend wanted to blindly hire Beyoncé to star as Carmen Brown in the MTV film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and watched Queen Bey “blossom” right before his eyes. In conversation with Lena Waithe ...