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Finney spent decades directing drama plays, including Ifa Bayeza’s “The Ballad of Emmett Till,” about the 14-year-old boy kidnapped, tortured […] The post Shirley Jo Finney, trailblazing Black director, dies after cancer battle appeared first on TheGrio.

Finney, an award-winning director of plays covering the Black experience, has died of cancer at 74 after decades of artistic excellence.

After an acting career that included playing the Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph in a TV movie, she became known as a director for her work at regional theaters.

Shirley Jo Finney, theater director and actor known for the 1975 TV biopic 'Wilma,' died on Oct. 10. She was 74.

/PRNewswire/ -- Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater today announced that Molly Smiths final directorial venture before she steps down as...

/PRNewswire/ -- Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater today announced that Molly Smiths final directorial venture before she steps down as...

A fellow patron said as we were filing out after the show that she wanted to see it again – high praise indeed for this absorbing and intense experience.

On the eve of the 2022 election, Arena Stage presents monologues on the theme of choice by eight female playwrights. The show runs for 18 performances and tickets are $18, a nod to the US voting age.

On the eve of the 2022 election, Arena Stage presents monologues on the theme of choice by eight female playwrights. The show runs for 18 performances and tickets are $18, a nod to the US voting age.

Highlights include revivals of Yellowman and Arms and the Man