Podcasts about Seven Guitars

Celebrated actor and playwright Wali Jamal joins us in a captivating episode that promises to both educate and inspire. Unpacking his rich career dedicated to African American history, Wali takes us on a journey from his early passion for theater to a memorable encounter with Denzel Washington at the August Wilson House Ground Blessing Ceremony. His dedication to bringing to light the stories of historical figures and civil rights icons shines through, revealing the transformative power of theater in keeping these vital narratives alive.Wali's creative process comes alive as he shares the riveting stories of unsung Black American heroes like Robert Smalls. Witness his dedication to authenticity through his roles as he delves into character preparation, mastering dialects, and even learning to play the harmonica overnight for a role in August Wilson's "Seven Guitars." His insights into character embodiment underscore the meticulous effort required to portray such roles authentically and the genuine rewards of connecting with these historical figures.This episode also tackles the broader themes of storytelling in theater, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how Wali and other playwrights balance authenticity with creativity. From the influence of renowned playwrights like Stephen Sondheim and Lin-Manuel Miranda to the necessity of diversity in theater, Wali's narrative encourages aspiring playwrights to challenge mainstream narratives as we explore how collaboration and inclusion can reshape the stage, ensuring that underrepresented figures finally get their spotlight.Support the showQuill & Curtain podcast is sponsored by Theatre Marketing Lab. Theatre Marketing Lab founder Julie Nemitz has been lifting up theatre organizations and theatre artists since 2019. The Lab exists to help theatremakers like you expand your exposure by developing personal branding and marketing skills that promote your works with more clarity and purpose, always rooted in authenticity so your talent and works can be seen on more stages worldwide. To learn more visit: https://theatremarketinglab.com To support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/QuillandCurtainPodcast The Podcast SWAG store!: https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-quill-and-curtain-podcast/To read Darrin's plays, click: https://newplayexchange.org/users/76352/darrin-friedman

Christopher Akerlind, has designed lighting, and occasionally scenery, for over 650 productions of theater, opera, and dance across the U.S. and around the world, including 24 shows on Broadway. Chris's recent work includes Waiting for Godot at Theatre for a New Audience, Lynn Nottage's play Clyde's on Broadway and at the Mark Taper Forum, The Light in the Piazza, for which he won his first Tony, Paula Vogel's play Indecent, winning him both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards, Rocky the Musical, which garnered him a Tony nomination, Sting's musical The Last Ship, and The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, for which he was also Tony nominated. Among Chris's other Broadway lighting designs are: August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Seven Guitars, Talk Radio, and the musical, Waitress.Chris's numerous shows not on Broadway include: Scene with Cranes for CalArts Center for New Performance; the premiere of M Butterfly for the Santa Fe Opera; and Martha Clarke's devised pieces God's Fool, Angel Reapers, and Cheri. Chris has also received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, four Drama Desk Awards, the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration, two Chicago area Joseph Jefferson Awards, as well as numerous nominations for the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.Chris has taught lighting design at schools like Cal Arts, USC, CMU, and his alma mater, Yale.

Keith David is a classically trained actor, winning 3 Emmys out of 6 nominations as well as being nominated for a Tony award. He starred in the recently concluded TV series "Greenleaf" for Oprah Winfrey's OWN network. Upcoming films include "Horizon Line" with Allison Williams ("Get Out") and "Black As Night," for Amazon. In "Greenleaf" Keith portrayed 'Bishop James Greenleaf', the charismatic and God-fearing leader of the Calvary Fellowship and the patriarch of the family. The series followed the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family, their scandalous secrets and lies, and their sprawling Memphis megachurch. The series was praised for its push and pull dynamic, its hypocrisy, and its compelling characters. Keith's stellar performance was best stated by The Hollywood Reporter, "... Keith David ...is perfectly cast as Bishop Greenleaf. Whether he's playing to the congregation at the altar or getting conspiratorial in a smaller venue, this is an unusually great and meaty role for David." On the big screen, Keith co-starred with Chadwick Boseman in "21 Bridges". Prior credits include "Night School" with Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish and "Tales from the Hood 2". Additional titles include the Academy award-winning films "Crash" and "Platoon." He is widely recognized for appearing in the highly-acclaimed films Disney's "The Princess and the Frog", "Requiem for a Dream", "Men at Work", "They Live", "There's Something About Mary", and "The Thing." Other recent TV credits include an upcoming appearance on "Creepshow," "NCIS: New Orleans", "Blackish," MacGyver", and "Fresh Off the Boat". Earlier credits include "Community", "Enlisted", "ER", and "Mister Roger's Neighborhood". On Broadway, Keith starred in August Wilson's "Seven Guitars" and "Jelly's Last Jam" for which he garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. Keith's work as a voice actor has made him a household name. His rich and powerful voice has been featured in national commercials, award shows, documentaries, video games, and animation. His work in narration has earned him three Emmys for Ken Burns' "Jackie Robinson", "The War", and "Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson". Some of his other voice acting credits include countless fan favorites such as "Adventure Time", "Bojack Horseman," "Rick & Morty", "Spawn", and "Gargoyles". Keith has lent his voice to many video game titles. Recently he portrayed the character "Spawn" in the reboot of the "Mortal Kombat" video game. Other appearances include the "Halo" series (games 2, 3, and 5), the "Saint's Row" series (games 1, 2, and 4), as well as the "Mass Effect" series (games 1,2, and 3). Born and raised in New York by his parents Lester and Dolores, Keith became interested in the arts at a very young age. After appearing in his school's production of "The Wizard of Oz", he knew this was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He enrolled in New York's High School of the Performing Arts and continued his studies at The Juilliard School. After graduation, he was immediately hired by Joseph Papp as an understudy for the role of Tullus Aufidius in William Shakespeare's "Coriolanus." His work with Mr. Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival launched his incredible career. In addition to his versatile acting and voiceover work, Keith is also a remarkable singer. He's has been touring in 2 shows, "Too Marvelous for Words", in which he portrays the legendary singer Nat King Cole, and a show about the incredible Blues singer Joe Williams, "Here's to Life." Twitter: @ImKeithDavid  Instagram: @SilverThroat  Facebook: @ImKeithDavid Copyright 2023-2024 TME Productions. All Rights Reserved  May not be used without permission.  Contact info@tme.productions

Another all star panel, for the latest episode of the KDHX podcast Tangazo. ------   World renowned Jazz Diva the incomparable Denise Thimes, spoke passionately about her mission with the Mildred Thimes Pancreatic Foundation, which she founded in 2011. -------   The foundation is named for Denise's mother the late Mildred Thimes, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer. -------   Denise, also talks about her deep relationship with Ron Himes and the iconic, St.Louis Black Repertory Theatre Company.  Thimes was featured in numerous Black Repertory productions throughout the years, including “Joe Turner Has Come and Gone” and one of my all time favorites,”Seven Guitars with the late, Linda Kennedy. -------   She also talks about how she and the Bosman Twins have taken Chicago by storm, often appearing back to back on weekends at the iconic Winters Jazz Club,  in downtown Chicago. ------   Himes, Founder and Director of the world recognized StLouis  Black Repertory Theatre Company, talks with energy and enthusiasm about his upcoming 47th season and the Reps annual Fall fundraising Gala, scheduled for November the 11th.. -----   The gala will feature the nationally known Tuskegee Golden Voices Concert Choir directed by Dr. Wayne Barr. The choir was founded in 1887 by Booker T Washington. ------   Actor  Wendell Pierce, will receive the Black Repertory's Woodie King lifetime achievement award, at the Gala . -----   Pierce won critical acclaim for his starring role of ‘Willie Lomax, in Arthur Millers, “Death of a Salesman” on broadway.  He has had role's in numerous movies including, Malcom X, Selma and Waiting to Exhale, just to name a few. ------   Antonio Fargus aka Huggy Bear, of the Starsky and Hutch tv series, will be in attendance.   Lastly we spoke with Ousmane Gaye, a Griot fellow with the “Griot Black History Museum,” founded by its Director Lois Conley, once  known as the, “World Black History Wax Museum.” -------   The Griot Black History Museum, has gained national recognition as one of the best Black History Museums in the nation. ------   

ABOUT ABANDONLuella is alone – haunted by the ghost of her son. Joshua is alone – kicked out of his house by his brother. One winter night these two people collide. Luella is looking for redemption; Joshua is looking for family. By the next morning, these two lonely souls are meshed together into an American Family in its truest sense. A world premiere by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright James Ijames, Abandon is sometimes violent, sometimes healing; with a gossamer veil that separates the worlds of the living and the dead, and shame and acceptance.Melanye Finister (Luella, she/her) is an artist and resident company member at People's Light, a member of Wilma Hothouse, and an artistic advisory board member at PlayPenn. People's Light: The Diary of Anne Frank, The Matchmaker, All My Sons, Fences, The Winter's Tale, Seven Guitars, The Return of Don Quixote, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Something You Did, Fabulation, and The Member of the Wedding. Theatre Includes: Wilma Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Flashpoint Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Venture Theatre, Temple Theaters and Walnut Street Theatre. Training: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University.Brenson Thomas (Gabriel, he/him) is a Black and queer writer, actor, and theatre-maker. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College's MFA Theatre program, his plays include how i got over, or…red Kool-Aid stains on bubblegum lips; What We Lost & Never Knew; and How We Return, an upcoming commission for Constellation Stage & Screen in Bloomington, IN. Brenson also writes for TV/Film, most recently on Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe's Twenties on BET. As a performer, Brenson has collaborated with Tony Award Winner Stew, Raja Feather Kelly, Lightning Rod Special in The Appointment (FringeArts/Next Door at NYTW; Barrymore Nominee for Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical), Arden Theatre Company in the world premiere of R. Eric Thomas' Backing Track, and Into the Woods, and with 1812 Productions for This is the Week That Is: 2020, and the Wilma Theater. When he's not hunched over his laptop crying about blank Google docs, Brenson enjoys long walks around his beloved Philly, doing bad accents, smashing patriarchal white supremacist structures, and Beyoncé.FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION: https://theatreexile.org/shows/abandon/

On today's episode of The Confluence: Ahead of the May primary, we discuss the candidates for Allegheny County executive and where the race stands; the University of Pittsburgh's production of “Seven Guitars” by August Wilson; and artists choose their favorite pieces from the 58th Carnegie International.

Today on Boston Public Radio: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tracy Kidder and Dr. Jim O'Connell of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless program joined to discuss Kidder's new book “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People.” We opened the lines to get listener reactions on the mass shooting at Michigan State University. Juliette Kayyem discusses what we know about the Michigan State University shooting, recent swatting at multiple school districts in Mass, and her latest column in the Atlantic about the unidentified flying objects. Kayyem is former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, and the faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Jared Bowen discusses the American Heritage Museum's Hanoi Hilton exhibit, August Wilson's Seven Guitars by the Actor's Shakespeare Project, and the Last Dance of Magic Mike. Bowen is GBH's Executive Arts Editor and host of Open Studio. Sy Montgomery discusses new research that finds orca mothers are so drained after raising one male calf that it drastically reduces their chances of having another one. Montgomery is a journalist, naturalist and a BPR contributor. We ended the show by talking to listeners about the toll parenting has.

As we gear up for the Booking Magnet LIVE 2022 Annual Actors Conference, I'm pleased to introduce you to Keith Bolden. Enjoy this interview and be sure to connect with us on social media to share your takeaways. Xo! - Christine Connect with Keith Arthur Bolden here: Instagram- keitharthurbolden Website- www.keitharthurbolden.com About Keith… Keith Arthur Bolden native of Los Angeles, California, earned his MFA in Acting from the University of Illinois and is currently an associate professor of Theatre and Performance at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. He considers himself a tri-coastal actor and it is demonstrated in his work, and in his ability to transform and embody a variety of characters based on his travels, life experiences and observation of the human condition. Directing Credits include: Hands Up! (Alliance Theatre, Fall 2021), Pipeline (Horizon Theatre), Two Trains Running (Triad Stage), Topdog/Underdog (NC Black Rep), Hands Up (Hattiloo Theatre), Hoodoo Love, Seven Guitars, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Piano Lesson (Spelman College) Acting Credits include: Paradise Blue (True Colors Theatre), Fetch Clay Make Man (Dallas Theatre Center), Between Riverside and Crazy (True Colors Theatre), Dreamgirls (DOMA Theatre), Gem of the Ocean (The Fountain Theatre, Rubicon Theatre), A Raisin in the Sun (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Hartford Stage, Cape Fear Regional Theatre), CROWNS (Texas Southern University-Guest Artist), Neighbors (Matrix Theatre), Fences, Take Me Out (Human Race Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Ragtime (Penn State-Guest Artist), The Exonerated, among others Recent Film/TV credits: the upcoming film TILL, Terror Lake Drive, Genius: Aretha Franklin, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Games People Play, The Ms. Pat Show, Creepshow, American Soul, Mile 22, Cobra Kai, The Haunting of Hill House, Behind the Movement, Underground, Black Lightning, Being Mary Jane, Nashville, Greenleaf, A Baby for Christmas, Swamp Murders, Containment, Your Worst Nightmare, Saints and Sinners, The Have and Have Nots, Goosebumps, Vampire Diaries, Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip. Join us at the BOOKING MAGNET LIVE 2022 - Actors Conference Learn more: https://bookingmagnetlive.com/ CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/actresschristinehorn/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/actresschristinehorn HBA Website: http://hollywoodboundactors.com/ My Official Website: http://christinehorn.com/ JOIN OUR HOLLYWOOD BOUND ACTORS ONLINE COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hollywoodboundactors/ JOIN OUR HOLLYWOOD BOUND ACTORS TEXT COMMUNITY: Text the word HBA to (470) 666-7011. Standard messaging and data rates apply. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-hollywood-bound-actor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-hollywood-bound-actor/support

Cassandra “Cassie" Freeman has made her mark in everything from drama to laugh out loud comedy across film, television and the stage. She will next been seen starring as Aunt Viv in Peacock's dramatic re-telling of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR, entitled BEL-AIR. The drama, which hails from Will Smith's Westbrook Studios, is expected to premiere in early 2022. In 2019, Freeman starred as FBI agent Jackie Pettigrew in NBC's drama series THE ENEMY WITHIN alongside Morris Chestnut. She has also starred in memorable roles in TBS' THE LAST OG, ABC's FOR LIFE, Marvel's LUKE CAGE and the acclaimed FX series ATLANTA (in the iconic Juneteenth episode). In film, Freeman most recently starred in David Gutnik's MATERNA, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She's best known for her feature roles in Spike Lee's INSIDE MAN opposite Denzel Washington and Chris Rock's I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE. In theater, Freeman has starred off-Broadway in August Wilson's SEVEN GUITARS, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Originally from Florida, she currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.   

In March 2020, Joy Jones was rehearsing the part of Vera in the Arena Stage production of August Wilson's Seven Guitars directed by Tazewell Thompson. It's not a surprise that Arena Stage would be mounting Seven Guitars. A long-time grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts,  Arena Stage is a pioneer of the Regional Theater Movement and the largest company in the country dedicated to American plays and playwrights. The surprise came with the pandemic that closed theaters and brought the country to a halt or at least a pause.  It took over a year and a half, but Seven Guitars finally opened at Arena Stage in late November 2021 with cast and audience equally jubilant. In this podcast, Joy Jones talks about the role of Vera, playing August Wilson, working with Tazewell Thompson, re-entering the rehearsal room and the stage after the shut down, and learning to love the arts as a kid in Washington DC. (You can find my 2015 interview with Tazewell Thompson here). Follow us on:  Apple Podcasts   Google Podcasts

In March 2020, Joy Jones was rehearsing the part of Vera in the Arena Stage production of August Wilson's Seven Guitars directed by Tazewell Thompson. It's not a surprise that Arena Stage would be mounting Seven Guitars. A long-time grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts,  Arena Stage is a pioneer of the Regional Theater Movement and the largest company in the country dedicated to American plays and playwrights. The surprise came with the pandemic that closed theaters and brought the country to a halt or at least a pause.  It took over a year and a half, but Seven Guitars finally opened at Arena Stage in late November 2021 with cast and audience equally jubilant. In this podcast, Joy Jones talks about the role of Vera, playing August Wilson, working with Tazewell Thompson, re-entering the rehearsal room and the stage after the shut down, and learning to love the arts as a kid in Washington DC. (You can find my 2015 interview with Tazewell Thompson here). Follow us on:  Apple Podcasts   Google Podcasts

Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo, professor of public health at College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, joins us to talk about the response to the new COVID-19 Omicron variant, which is rapidly spreading around the world and just made landfall in the U.S. We talk about how there has not been a consistent response to Omicron across the board, and whether it really is more contagious than the Delta variant. We also talk about how we will have to learn with spikes and new variants in the foreseeable future, how healthcare costs keep rising in the U.S., and what could be done about it. Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer for MintPress News, author, journalist, media analyst and member of the Glasgow University Media Group, joins us to tell us about the intersection of Silicon Valley, the national security state and the Open Technology Fund, which bills itself as an independent provider of privacy apps, but is actually funded and controlled by the United States Agency for Global Media, a government body responsible for overseeing U.S.-funded state media outlets overseas, including Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, and how these apps are used to advance U.S. interests abroad and destabilize governments they consider to be enemies. David Swanson, activist, journalist, radio host and author of the book "Curing Exceptionalism," talks to us about how the Pentagon "cover-up" in the Kabul drone killing of a family continues, with the news that no U.S. troops will be punished for deadly Kabul strike, how impunity is rampant in the military, and war crimes accusations only apply to our opponents. We also talk about the strike force Talon Anvil, which operated in Syria from 2014 to 2019 and is responsible for countless civilian deaths and how the burden of responsibility gets shifted across the board. Roz White, award winning actress, joins hosts Michelle Witte and Bob Schlehuber to talk about the play “Seven Guitars,” and the journey of each of the characters through the music, through the hope, and through the pain that links them all together.

Mei Ann Teo, theatre, film maker, and Associate Artistic Director of New Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, stops by the podcast to give Holly and Meghan a master class in civically minded art, church skits as artistic awakenings, queer plays written by “straight” identifying teens, liberation as a way to subvert the grand narrative and the life changing moment that set them on the path to being a devised theater creator. She shares more about the unique way that Oregon Shakespeare Festival @OSFashland is approaching the artistic director role and how we need to all come to terms with our addiction to producing Shakespeare. Most importantly they blow our mind by teasing the queer camp Little Shop of Horrors of our dreams that we're unapologetically thirsty for. Meghan and Holly talk about the New York Times article “As Broadway Returns, Shows Rethink and Restage Depictions of Race” and share some upcoming work from previous guests. You can find a full transcript of this episode here. Article Discussed As Broadway Returns, Shows Rethink and Restage Depictions of Race Action of the Ep:  Check out our previous guests' creative projects! Luciernagas with National Queer Theater at the 14th St. Y November 11-30th - written by prior guest Javier Rivera DeBruin Chicken and Biscuits on Broadway through January 2, 2022- sound design by prior guest Twi McCallum “Wait, Is This a Date?” - new podcast hosted by prior guest Drew Gregory August Wilson's Seven Guitars at Arena Stage in DC November 26-December 26th featuring prior guest Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi as Ruby Mirrors by prior guest Azure D. Osborne-Lee premiering virtually on November 10, 2021 Maybe Burke in Maybzgiving: A Queernucopia at 54 Below November 23, 2021 Mei Ann Teo: Website | Instagram  Oregon Shakespeare Festival Web Site Queer Culture Recs: Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians by JEB Queer | Art | Film Screenings at the IFC Queer Gives: The Jean Moye Dark Fund - Learn More & Donate Episode Credits: Edited by Meghan Dixon Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ruben Santiago-Hudson is currently starring in Lackawanna Blues which he wrote and directed on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club. He also directed the Broadway production, Jitney which garnered several awards for “Outstanding Revival” including a Tony® Award and six Tony® nominations. Santiago-Hudson recently adapted August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for Netflix, which was produced by Denzel Washington, directed by George C. Wolfe, and starred Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Ruben's directing credits include: The Piano Lesson, Skeleton Crew, Othello, Gem of The Ocean, Paradise Blue, My Children! My Africa!, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Cabin in the Sky, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Two Trains Running, Things of Dry Hours and more. Santiago-Hudson received a Tony® Award as featured actor for his performance in August Wilson's Seven Guitars and made his Broadway acting debut alongside Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam. Other Broadway credits include Stick Fly and Gem of The Ocean. Select theater credits include The Winter's Tale, Henry VIII and Measure for Measure (The Delacorte) Ceremonies in Dark Old Men and A Soldier's Play (NEC), Lackawanna Blues and East Texas Hot Links (The Public Theater). He wrote, executive produced, and co-starred in the HBO film Lackawanna Blues based on his OBIE and Helen Hayes Award-winning play. The movie received many honors including Emmy, Golden Globe, NAACP Image Award, The Christopher Award, and the Humanitas Prize. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: The Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center

这周调戏栏目分享的剧目是这部美国剧作家 Augusut Wilson 奥古斯特·威尔逊 1984 年的话剧「莱妮大妈的黑臀」Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom。这部话剧最近被 Netflix 翻拍成为同名电影，也正好是今年奥斯卡奖最佳男主提名，Chuck Boseman （漫威海报扮演者），生前最后一部作品，电影的中文名叫「蓝调天后」。威尔逊以编年史的方式创作了10部发生在匹兹堡的系列话剧，分别展现了20世纪美国黑人在每一个10年的历史。Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 的故事发生在 1920 年代。威尔逊的匹兹堡系列话剧 Pittsburg Cycle分别是：1900s: Gem of the Ocean (2003)1910s: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1986)1920s: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984)1930s: The Piano Lesson (1987)1940s: Seven Guitars (1995)1950s: Fences (1985)1960s: Two Trains Running (1990)1970s: Jitney (1982)1980s: King Hedley II (1999)1990s: Radio Golf (2005)节目中提到的作品信息：电影「蓝调天后」Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Netflixhttps://movie.douban.com/subject/34439631/电影「冲出康普顿」Straight Outta Compton, F Gary Grayhttps://movie.douban.com/subject/3608742/电影「为奴十二年」12 Years a Slave，Steve McQueenhttps://movie.douban.com/subject/6879185/电影「白宫管家」The Butler，Lee Danielshttps://movie.douban.com/subject/3292949/美术馆National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonianhttps://nmaahc.si.edu See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tynia is an Inspirational speaker, Healthy Relationship Strategist, Certified Grief Specialist, Mental Health Counselor, Recording Artist, and Founder of Inspirational Spirit of the Phoenix, Inc. This episode is an introduction of some of the topics I will be discussing, and interviews of special guests. I will be on every other Monday at 7:00pm. My first guest will be Actor, Director, and Writer Jerome Preston Bates! Bates has appeared in several Broadway shows, creating the role of Floyd Barton opposite Viola Davis in August Wilson's Seven Guitars, has been featured in recurring roles on HBO's OZ and All My Children .Most recently, producer on the radio podcast Creating In A Time of Covid with West Coast and East Coast artist. Listen in on Monday, April 5, 2021 at 7:00 pm. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tynia-canada/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tynia-canada/support

MARGO HALL is an award-winning actor, director, activist, educator, and newly appointed Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. She has graced Bay Area stages for 30 years as a performer and director. She recently appeared in the hit film Blindspotting with Oakland native Daveed Diggs and All Day and a Night on Netflix. She was last seen onstage in Exit Strategy at The Aurora Theater. She recently directed How I Learned What I Learned at Marin Theatre Company, BARBECUE (which she also starred in) and Red Velvet for SF Playhouse and Brownsville, b-side for tray for Shotgun Players. Other acting credits include: Marin Theater Company- JAZZ, Skeleton Crew, Gem of the Ocean, Fences and Seven Guitars. 

Ruben Santiago-Hudson had dreamed of being in an August Wilson from the first time he was in the audience of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He found himself crying during the play and realized he was not just deeply moved by the play and the actors in it but the tears were connected to this feeling that for the first time in his life he was seeing people on stage who were so familiar to him and he wanted to be a part of that kind of storytelling. It took a few tries but finally he was cast in Wilson’s Seven Guitars and that began a brotherhood and an artistic marriage between Ruben and the great playwright that lasted until the death of August Wilson. It was Wilson who encouraged Ruben not just to act in his work but to be one of the few artists he trusted to direct his work. Since then Ruben has directed his plays on Broadway and adapted Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for the screen. This is an artistic relationship that will be a part of theater history. Welcome Tony Award winner  Ruben Santiago Hudson  to the podcast. Hosted by Ilana Levine, Produced by Alan Seales, part of the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Adam and Budi interview Dramaturg Taylor BarfieldTaylor Barfield is a dramaturg, writer, and theater artist from Baltimore, MD. He currently serves as the Literary Manager for Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Before that, he was the Associate Artistic Director at Collaboraction Theatre Company in Chicago, IL. Select freelance dramaturgy credits include Nothing to Lose (But Our Chains) (Second City/Woolly Mammoth), Electra (Court Theatre), Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theatre), Barbecue (Strawdog), and Megastasis (Eclipse Theatre Company). Taylor also served as assistant director for the world premiere productions of Cadillac Crew (Yale Repertory Theatre), Man in the Ring (Court Theatre), and War (Yale Repertory Theatre), the Midwest premiere of Paradise Blue (Timeline Theatre), and the east coast premiere of Native Son (Yale Repertory Theatre). He received his M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama and his B.A. in Molecular/Cellular Biology and English Literature from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a D.F.A. candidate at the Yale School of Drama where his dissertation explores how contemporary African American playwrights re-imagine and re-stage black theater history. Taylor is also a member of the 2021 REALITY Leadership Institute. Mentioned in this episode:August Osage CountyDunbar Baldwin Hughes TheaterYahya Abdul Mateen IIActors Equity AssociationMamadou AthieFOLKSSarah WilliamsAugust Wilson American Century Cycle (first performance order)Jitney (set in the '70s) Fences (set in the '50s)Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (set in the '20s)Joe Turner's Come and Gone (set in the 1910s)The Piano Lesson (set in the '30s)Two Trains Running (set in the '60s)Seven Guitars (set in the '40s)King Hedley II (set in the '80s)Gem of the Ocean (set in the 1900s)Radio Golf (set in the '90s)Tori SampsonTwo River Theatre CompanyLark TheatreNew DramatistsPage 73Re-framing the Critic EF's Visit to a Small PlanetBeehive dramaturgyMusic credit: https://www.purple-planet.com

Actor/writer/director Ruben Santiago-Hudson is the kind of artist whose awe-inspiring dedication to the work can almost be overwhelming. He won a Tony Award for his performance in August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars.” His autobiographical play “Lackawanna Blues” was a sensation at the Public Theater and went on to be an award-winning HBO film. He started directing plays (particularly Wilson’s) and is now one of the most sought after directors working in theater. His production of “Jitney” on Broadway won the Tony award for Best Revival of a Play. As an actor, he can currently be seen on Showtime’s "Billions" and recently on BET’s "The Quad." He wrote the screenplay for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which is coming to Netflix (starring Viola Davis). In this hour he generously gives us so many golden nuggets about his approach to this amazing craft, both as an actor and director, that you’re going to want to listen with a pen and pad in hand.

Regional: The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet (Denver Center Theatre Company); Othello, Julius Caesar, The Man in the Iron Mask, Henry IV, Parts One and Two(Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Circle Mirror Transformation, No Man’s Lands, Seven Guitars, Invisible Hand, The Duchess of Malfi (Artists Repertory Theatre); A Lesson Before Dying; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Master Harold . . . and the Boys (Profiles Theatre Company); Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Pinocchio, El Zorrito, Peter Pan(Northwest Children’s Theater); Lorca in a Green Dress; Adriente Paciencia; Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue (Miracle Theatre); Charlotte’s Web, Tuck Everlasting, BFG, Holes, Cyrano (Oregon Children’s Theatre).Other credits: Associate artist in composition, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Awards: 2000–2001 Drammy, Sound Design and Composition, for a season of outstanding work at multiple theatres; 2001–2002 Drammy in Composition (Tuck Everlasting); 2004 Drammy in Composition (Lorca in a Green Dress). Education: MA, Music, Manhattan School of Music; BA, Music, University of Arizona.

This week on Arts Magazine, Artistic Director Karen Paisley talks about the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre production of “August Wilson’s Seven Guitars”, and guests from Potluck Productions chat about their upcoming […] The post “August Wilson’s Seven Guitars” & Potluck Productions appeared first on KKFI.

Actor, screenwriter and stage director Ruben Santiago-Hudson was born on November 24, 1956 in Lackawanna, New York to Alean Hudson and Ruben Santiago. He graduated from Lackawanna High School, earned his B.A. degree in theatre from Binghamton University in 1978, and his M.F.A. degree from Wayne State University in 1982. Santiago-Hudson first appeared as an actor in the 1988 film, Coming to America. He then played Captain Billy Cooper on the daytime drama Another World from 1990 to 1993, for which he became widely recognized. Santiago-Hudson made his Broadway debut as Buddy Bolden in Jelly's Last Jam in 1992, and starred in August Wilson's Seven Guitars in 1995. He wrote 2001's Lackawanna Blues, an autobiographical play, and then adapted it for the highly acclaimed, award-winning 2005 HBO film. He co-starred opposite Phylicia Rashad in Gem of the Ocean on Broadway in 2004. In 2007, he starred in a Public Broadcasting Service Nova documentary about the life of Percy Lavon Julian, and from 2009 to 2011, he played Captain Roy Montgomery in ABC's Castle. Santiago-Hudson returned to Broadway to star in Stick Fly in 2011, and is set to direct August Wilson's JITNEY! on Broadway in 2017. Santiago-Hudson's other feature film credits include Bleeding Hearts, Blown Away, Domestic Disturbance, Which Way Home, The Devil's Advocate, American Gangster, Mr. Brooks, Shaft, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Showtime's Solomon and Sheba. His other television show credits include The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, NYPD Blue, Touched by an Angel, The West Wing, Third Watch, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Showtime's Billions, the TNT series Public Morals, and five episodes of Law & Order. He has also lectured on theatre at colleges and universities across the United States, and served as a private acting coach. Santiago-Hudson received the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Performer in Seven Guitars. He was awarded the 2006 Humanitas Prize in writing for the HBO film adaptation of his play Lackawanna Blues, and received a NAACP Lifetime Achievement Theatre Award in 2009. In 2013, Santiago-Hudson won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director, an Obie Award for Direction, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for his work in the Off-Broadway production of The Piano Lesson. In 2016, he won an Obie Award for Special Citations: Collaboration of the play Skeleton Crew. He has also received an honorary doctorate of letters from Buffalo State College in 2006, and from Wayne State University in 2015. In 2014, The Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center was named in his honor in his hometown of Lackawanna, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What does it mean to be an artist at a time when the stories we choose to tell, and how we tell them, might just shape the future? The nuances of choice in life and on stage are the jump off for this episode of Life Invented. Join us in conversation with nationally recognized actor Aldo Billingslea, Professor of Theatre Arts at Santa Clara University. Explore yet another way to invent the life you want to lead at Santa Clara University. SPEAKERS: Aldo Billingslea, Professor of Theatre Arts Aldo Billingslea joined the theatre department faculty as an assistant professor in the Fall of 1998 after serving as an adjunct lecturer in the spring of 1996. Billingslea earned his B.A. in English and Communication Arts at Austin College, his M.A. in Secondary Education with a Theatre and English emphasis at Austin College, and his M.F.A. in Acting at Southern Methodist University. He appeared in Santa Clara University's productions of Paul Robeson, Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, and directed A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour Lost, Pentecost, The Shadow Box, Coriolanus, Little Shop of Horrors, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf and Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. A member of Actor's Equity Association and the Screen Actor's Guild, Billingslea has appeared in productions of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running and Radio Golf; Eugene Oneill's The Hairy Ape; Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire; and more than two dozen different plays by William Shakespeare. Billingslea has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area at the American Conservatory Theatre, Aurora Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, Cuttingball Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Magic Theatre, Marin Shakespeare Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He has also worked at Portland Center Stage, Portland Repertory Theatre, Tacoma Actor's Guild, Sacramento Theatre Company, Plano Repertory Theatre, Theatre Three in Dallas, San Antonio's Majestic Theatre, Oasis Theatre Company in Buffalo, San Diego's Old Globe Theater, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas and spent seven seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Billingslea teaches American Theatre from the Black Perspective, a seminar on August Wilson, Acting for Non Majors, Acting I, Acting Styles: Shakespeare, and Acting for the Camera.

The King of DC Media, William Powell, welcomes DirectorWriter Jason A. Ellis and the cast of his play "U-Street, the musical", which tackles homelessness. Bio for DirectorWriter Jason A. Ellis: Jason A. Ellis – (Talent Agent) is excited to once again perform on stage for his many supporters and expresses his heartfelt gratitude for that continued support today. He has choreographed for and performed in several productions at his Alfred Street Baptist Church, as well as with theater companies in the DMV area in productions such as A Soldier’s Play, Seven Guitars, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Company. His ADHD won’t allow him to sit still, so his hand can be found in many aspects of this production, which has been the same for all of the other productions that he writes, directs, produces, etc. A son of Jamaica, he lives by the optimistic slogan for the country’s flag, “hardships there are, but the land is green and the sun shineth”.

Sheila Phipps, artist, speaks about her son, No Limit Rapper, "Mac," who is serving 30 years, and her art currently at Sandra Berry's Neighborhood Gallery in New Orleans, who she says is innocent. Visit www.free-mac.org Kenneth Cooper is an independent writer and life-long resident of New Orleans. He recently graduated from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in 2008 with a degree in English and has his work published in the New Orleans Review, the Alternet, Sync504, and the New Orleans Examiner. Meshawn Tarver: In June 2010 Meshawn, graduate of George Washington University with a Masters in Public Health, became Executive Director of Common Ground Health Clinic (CGHC), a patient centered integrated medical home, serving the underinsured and uninsured population. CGHC also provides herbal medicine, acupuncture, women's wellness group and broad array of classes including health education, cooking, gardening and art classes. Robert H. King, former political prisoner, only free member of the Angola 3, is author of  "From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King," with an introduction by Dr. Terry Kupers, MD, MSP. Dan, a representative from the Gulf Restoration Network, the only non profit environmental advocacy group with an exclusive focus on the Gulf of Mexico based in New Orleans. The second half of the program is a discussion of August Wilson's Seven Guitars with actors: L. Peter Callendar (Red Carter), Charles Branklyn (Hedley), and Shinelle Azoroh (Ruby), at the Marin Theatre Company through September 11, 2011. Visit www.marintheatre.org or call (415)388-5208. Music: Somi's "When the Rain Comes" & Babatunde Olatunde Lea's "Umbo Weti: Tribute to Leon Thomas."

The extraordinary legacy of playwright August Wilson and his 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th Century is explored in a two-part program. First, a panel of Wilson's collaborators -- producer James Houghton (Signature Theatre Company), dramaturg Todd Kreidler, director Kenny Leon (Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean), actor/director Ruben Santiago Hudson (Tony Award winner for 1997’s Seven Guitars), producer Jack Viertel (Radio Golf) -- discuss the process of developing and producing Wilson's plays. In the second half, the depth and variety of Wilson's characters are explored by Stephen McKinley Henderson (Jitney, King Hedley II), Harry Lennix (Radio Golf), Tonya Pinkins (Tony winner for Jelly’s Last Jam) and Phylicia Rashad Gem of the Ocean and 2004 Tony winner for the revival of A Raisin in the Sun), joined by director Kenny Leon.

The extraordinary legacy of playwright August Wilson and his 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th Century is explored in a two-part program. First, a panel of Wilson's collaborators -- producer James Houghton (Signature Theatre Company), dramaturg Todd Kreidler, director Kenny Leon ("Radio Golf", "Gem of the Ocean"), actor/director Ruben Santiago Hudson ("Gem of the Ocean", "Seven Guitars"), producer Jack Viertel ("Radio Golf") -- discuss the process of developing and producing Wilson's plays. In the second half, the depth and variety of Wilson's characters are explored by Stephen McKinley Henderson ("Jitney", "King Hedley II"), Harry Lennix ("Radio Golf"), Tonya Pinkins ("Radio Golf") and Phylicia Rashad ("Gem of the Ocean"), joined by director Kenny Leon.

Tony Award-winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about his responsibility as part of the fraternity of "August Wilson actors"; his desire to direct the complete 10-play Wilson cycle of plays, having begun with the two in which he appeared on Broadway ("Seven Guitars" and "Gem of the Ocean"); the experience of adapting his own life into "Lackawanna Blues" for both stage and television, and the challenges of producing work which portrays the diversity of African-American life and issues in film and on television. Original air date - August 25, 2006.

Tony Award-winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about his responsibility as part of the fraternity of "August Wilson actors"; his desire to direct the complete 10-play Wilson cycle of plays, having begun with the two in which he appeared on Broadway ("Seven Guitars" and "Gem of the Ocean"); the experience of adapting his own life into "Lackawanna Blues" for both stage and television, and the challenges of producing work which portrays the diversity of African-American life and issues in film and on television. Original air date - August 25, 2006.

Tony Award-winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about his responsibility as part of the fraternity of "August Wilson actors"; his desire to direct the complete 10-play Wilson cycle of plays, having begun with the two in which he appeared on Broadway ("Seven Guitars" and "Gem of the Ocean"); the experience of adapting his own life into "Lackawanna Blues" for both stage and television, and the challenges of producing work which portrays the diversity of African-American life and issues in film and on television. Original air date - August 25, 2006.