BWW Interview: Playwright France-Luce Benson's Been Ready For SHOWTIME - BLUES
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.
Heritage Theatre Festival To Present Katori Hall's THE MOUNTAINTOP
Heritage Theatre Festival will wrap up its 2018 season with The Mountaintop, an Olivier Award-winning play by Katori Hall. The Mountaintop is built around a fantastical imagining of the final night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, and a chance encounter with a motel maid that offers a rare window into the human side of the American icon and presents a compelling bridge from this world to the next.
'Birthright' Opens At Billie Holiday Theatre 5/16
Award-winning author/director Jackie Alexander's 'BIRTHRIGHT' takes place one year after Katrina in Slidell, Louisiana, fifteen miles northeast of New Orleans. 'BIRTHRIGHT' will have its World Premiere at the Billie Holiday Theatre ( 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) on Friday, May 16th where it will run through Sunday, June 29th.