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"You do not leave this couch until the challenge is completed!" Oscilloscope Labs has debuted the trailer for a demented, wacky indie film titled Relaxer, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last year. Relaxer is the latest work from American filmmaker Joel Potrykus, who has been making some super funky little films including Ape,

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Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II discuss their electrifying performances in the Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Suzan-Lori Parks uses words to put new airs and raiments around a myth-draped Founding Father.

André De Shields Joseph Marzullo/WENN New York Theatre Workshop streams Aleshea Harris Brother, Brother—one of the Off-Broadway companys Artistic Instigator projects for the 2020–2021 season—beginning April 26 at 7 PM ET. Directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, the production will remain available through July 25. Featuring Hadestown Tony winner André De Shields, along with Gbenga Akinnagbe, Amari Cheatom, and Owen Tabaka, the new work fol...

André De Shields Joseph Marzullo/WENN New York Theatre Workshop has announced its upcoming Artistic Instigator projects for the 2020–2021 season with Aleshea Harris Brother, Brother and Kristina Wongs Kristina Wong, Harris Brother, Brother, directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, will stream April 26 and remain available through July 25. Featuring Hadestown Tony winner André De Shields, along with Gbenga Akinnagbe, Amari Cheatom, and Owen Tabaka, ...

(© R.J. Eldridge/Kristina Wong photo courtesy of New York Theatre Workshop) Aleshea Harris will present Brother, Brother, an illustrated audio play which will premiere virtually April 26 and be available to stream through July 25. It is described as follows: "Jim and Wally are brothers traveling Appalachia by two-seater bicycle, stopping to play shows on their way to make it big in Tennessee. When a man in a maroon suit starts following them, they come face-to-face with their pasts." Directed...

Who’s Who in Judas and the Black Messiah: A Character Guide Vulture.com 2/13/2021 Nick Allen Judas and the Black Messiah has the all the trappings of a genre movie — it’s a gritty crime thriller that unfolds on the tense stage of an anti-police revolution — but it shouldn’t be underestimated as a history lesson. In its true story of how informant William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) infiltrated the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s, direct...

CinemaBlend There are few movies receiving as much as attention as Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah thanks to the biographical drama’s heartbreaking retelling of the events that led to the assassination of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and the struggles of the African-American community in late 1960s. The Judas and the Black Messiah cast, which includes Daniel Kaluuya as impassioned activist and LaKeith Stanfield as the criminal-turned-informant who prov...

From left: Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah Yesterday’s powder keg, still simmering today. TWITTER 2/12/2021 Daniel Kaluuya stars as Fred Hampton with LaKeith Stanfield as the FBI informant who betrayed both the Illinois Black Panther Party chairman and himself in Shaka Kings powerhouse political drama. The 1969 killing at age 21 of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton was a potent secondary plot point last year in Aaron Sorkins The Trial of t...