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Billy Porter will play the late American novelist James Baldwin in the upcoming biopic through Byron Allen's Allen Media Group Productions.

Pose star Billy Porter is set to co-write and star in a biopic based on the life of legendary novelist, essayist and activist James Baldwin. Porter and Dan McCa

Walt Disney Television/Yolanda PerezPose star Billy Porter is set to co-write and star in a biopic based on the life of legendary novelist, essayist and activist James Baldwin. Porter and Dan McCabe will adapt the script for from David Leeming’s 1994 ...

Porter to star in and co-write film based on 1994 biography of influential writer and civil rights activist

Billy Porter has inked a deal to star in and co-write a James Baldwin biopic for Byron Allen's Allen Media Group Motion Pictures.

Porter is co-writing the screenplay about the Black, gay writer and civil rights activist with Dan McCabe.

Actor and musician Billy Porter will play famous writer and playwright James Baldwin in a new biopic.

Today, the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, an initiative of the Boch Center in Boston, announced the lineup for the inaugural WasFest, a unique music experience at the Wang and Shubert Theatres. Curated and hosted by musician, legendary producer, and President of Blue Note Records Don Was, the festival will take place June 23-25 and feature some of Was’s longtime collaborators and friends performing unique sets that fans won’t see anywhere else. WasFest is presented by the Folk Americana ...

GRAMMY, EMMY, and Tony Award-winner Billy Porter will star in and co-write a new biopic based on the life of author and human rights activist James Baldwin. Porter has stated that it has been a career-long goal to bring Baldwin's story to the big screen. Baldwin's work includes 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' and more.

Spatial conflicts and curiosities (the lighthearted call to the open road, for example) can undergird the entire momentum and tone of a novel. Without knowing a character’s place in the world, it’