Cecil Blutcher

Mark Bedard, Cecil Blutcher & More to Star in BUST World Premiere
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 12, 2024

Alliance Theatre and Goodman Theatre revealed the cast and creative team of their upcoming world-premiere co-production, BUST. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

Tickets On Sale Now For HANG TIME World Premiere at The Flea; Complete Cast Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 9, 2023

The Flea has announced the complete cast and design team for the world-premiere production of HANG TIME, the new play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Zora Howard.

Marsha Stephanie Blake, Becca Blackwell, Nidra Sousla Terre and More Join SHOWING UP From The Civilians
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 14, 2021

The Civilians has announced the cast for Showing Up, a free live streamed evening of music and performance inspired by photographer Accra Shepp’s portraits of Black Lives Matter activists. The online event features Emmy-Nominee Marsha Stephanie Blake, Sheldon Best, Becca Blackwell, Cecil Blutcher, and more.

Tony-Nominee Joaquina Kalukango, Snoop Dogg and More Join HURT VILLAGE Virtual Benefit Reading
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 2, 2020

A virtual reading of 2020 Tony Award- nominee Katori Hall's Hurt Village will benefit The Actors Fund. Broadcasting on YouTube-December 4 - 8, 2020.

Cape Cod Theatre Project Takes Audiences On Unexpected Journey In The South In BUST â€" An Afro-Currentist Play
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 15, 2020

BUST, written by playwright and actress, Zora Howard (HULU's Premature) is a true in-development play, is perhaps one of the Cape Cod Theatre Project's most anticipated readings of the season. What starts with a traffic stop of black man, quickly flips the script and a majority of what will transpire afterwards will be developed in the idyllic setting of the Cape and through audience feedback. Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct.

BWW Interview: Playwright France-Luce Benson's Been Ready For SHOWTIME - BLUES
by Gil Kaan - Jun 26, 2020

In these pandemic times, The Fountain Theatre has been Zooming their SATURDAY MATINEE series, the latest on June 27 being France-Luce Benson's SHOWTIME BLUES. The cast of this reading includes Cecil Blutcher, Suzette Azariah Gunn and Matt Kirkwood. I had the socially distant opportunity to pose a few questions to this prolific playwright.

Photo Coverage: Go Inside Opening Night of CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND
by Jennifer Broski - Feb 25, 2020

Cambodian Rock Band began performances on February 4 and opened just last night, February 24 on the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street). The production is a limited engagement through March 15, 2020.

Photo Flash: Take a Look at Signature Theatre's THE HOT WING KING
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 18, 2020

The Hot Wing King began performances on February 11 and opens on Sunday, March 1 in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street). The production is an limited engagement through March 22, 2019.

Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal For Signature Theatre's THE HOT WING KING
by Stephi Wild - Jan 24, 2020

The Hot Wing King begins performances on February 11 and opens on Sunday, March 4 in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street). The production is an limited engagement through March 22, 2019

Sheldon Best, Cecil Blutcher and More to Star in Signature Theatre's Production of THE HOT WING KING
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 7, 2020

Casting is confirmed for the Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Harold Wolpert, Executive Director) world premiere of The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. The production will play from February 11 to March 22, 2020 with opening night set for March 1 in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues).

BWW Review: PIPELINE at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
by Keith Waits - Jan 15, 2019

If Actors Theatre were to make an annual tradition of producing the latest Dominique Morisseau play every January, it would be a reason to rejoice. One year after the indelible Skeleton Crew, director Steve H. Broadnax III, and actor Patrese D. McClain have returned with Pipeline, an even stronger play that implodes the narrative cliches that have weighed down African American stories for generations.

BWW Review: Timely New Play PETROL STATION Premieres at Kennedy Center
by Barbara Johnson - Mar 25, 2017

Anglo-Kuwaiti writer-director Sulayman Al Bassam's new play PETROL STATION is as of-the-moment as it gets. Drawn from politics, literature, and myth, it features Muslim characters and is densely packed with urgent themes: justice for migrant workers, autonomy for women, cyclical violence. Epic set and lighting design (Eric Soyer) conjure a windswept desert in an imagined borderland torn by civil war, a dramatic backdrop that enhances the actors' delivery of poetic lines.