“Jitney” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Powerfully written and performed, Jitney at Oregon Shakespeare Festival definitely is a -- maybe THE -- highlight of the theater season.
A Meaningful “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” hits Netflix tomorrow, December 18. I was lucky enough to see it last Friday, and I would like to recommend it! Highly! Forgive me if I assume that you know that the original play was written by August Wilson and that you know his importance in American Theater. My name was watermarked on all scenes so that I couldn't record it and anonymously share it before its release. And, you probably know that “Ma Rainey” is set in Chicago in the 1920’s and is the play deals with a recording audition for Ma and her band. [...]
UniSon
Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Steven Sapp (Poet), Asia Mark (Apprentice) photo from OSF UniSon A new musical by UNIVERSES Inspired by August Wilson's Poetry In association with Constanza Romero WORLD PREMIERE UniSon is a brief, brilliant, shotgun wedding between poetry and drama, lubricated into position with just the right amount, and right style, of original music. UNIVERSES and collaborators pulled off a transformation. Wilson's original poetry, supplemented by UNIVERSES verses, are used as the dialogue in a coherent, sensible, sensitive narrative. No longer just words, even vivid words, the views and observations in poems are given context [...]