The year in review in Black theater, Part 2
Check out the second half of our 2023 review of Black theater.
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COMMENTARY: Note From New York As Reed's "The Conductor" Completes Off-Broadway Run
If “The Conductor” never plays again, I will have been privileged to be part of its evolution from Zoom readings from a year ago to two full off-Broadway runs in 2023. That’s six weeks of live shows, 24 shows in all. But wouldn’t it be nice to have the show satirizing the Bay Area’s race politics actually have a run in the Bay Area?
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'The Conductor…' highlights historical and present-day persecution
“The Conductor: A Living Newspaper” by Ishmael Reed recently opened at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue in Manhattan).
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Ishmael Reed with Bob Holman
Though it may be difficult to edge in a question during Ish’s mammoth intellect spew, his non-stop provocateurship, one thing’s for sure—what we’re living through now he wrote about back in the sixties, which means that what he’s theorizing about now we can look forward to actually happening in another fifty years.
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