By Angela Carroll This article was first published in DC Theatre Scene. “Everyone in this play is dead,” Harriet Tubman (Tiffany Byrd) announces minutes into the first act. Frederick Douglass (Marquis…
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by Angela Carroll This article was first published in DC Theatre Scene. Familiar, by Tony Award winning playwright Danai Gurira, is an intimate comedy-drama set in the home of a first-generation Zimbabwean family…
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by Jason Williams This article was first published in the Northwest Current. In a town where long-standing institutions are increasingly contouring themselves to contemporary audiences, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returned…
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by Angela Carroll This article was first published in DC Theatre Scene. In the early 19th century, Ira Aldridge, an African American actor and playwright, was performing on European stages. A fraction…
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by Angela Carroll This article was first published in DC Theatre Scene. “Just what kind of man would abandon his son?” This is the central question writer/performer W. Allen Taylor has…
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This article was first published in TAGG and can be read on their site here. It’s a breath of fresh air to be able to find overlapping interests with someone, particularly…
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This article was first published by TAGG and can be found on their site here. The afterglow of the Supreme Court’s 2015 rule on marriage equality finally felt like something tangible had progressed…