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As the writer counts honors and advances—and keeps tabs on rivals, lovers, and detractors—the drive to succeed is the drive to survive.

As ‘For Colored Girls’ returns to the New York stage, we look at how the show found its way from a Bay Area bar to Broadway in 1976.

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July 29, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield When Artistic Director, David Nairn says “We’re very busy here at Theatre Orangeville,” he means it ­more than ever. Let us begin this feature, then, to give you the complete schedule: The Third Life of Eddie Mann, a play by John Spurway, produced online in the same format as The Rules of Playing Risk, runs on your big screen television from July 30 to August 15. Mr. Spurway...

July 8, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield Up next at Theatre Orangeville, the second of two one act plays, filmed so skillfully, the feeling of actually being in the theatre is closer than one might ever imagine possible. These are, as Artistic Director, David Nairn explained, the interim step between the “Cabaret” shows they produced since September 2020 and the two live theatre plays, for which tickets are already on ...

50 Black Writers Whose Impact Went Beyond the Page By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News On 2/23/21 at 8:00 PM EST Harris & Ewing/Interim Archives/Getty African American authors have created a rich body of literature: fiction and nonfiction, essays, poetry, scholarly articles and more. The narratives theyve added to American storytelling have shifted perspectives and prompted fresh conversations; their writing has shaped how the Black experience is viewed and understood in America by readers of ...

New York Times contributing critic at large Salamishah Tillet captures in her captivating new book In Search Of The Color Purple: The Story Of An American Masterpiece. Through archival footage, interviews, and her own analysis, the Rutgers professor proves Alice Walkers 1982 book is more than a Pulitzer-winning novel, 1985 Steven Spielberg film, or Tony-winning Broadway play. As Tillet stresses, this story of sisterhood, sexual violence, healing, and resilience is a rite of passage for many Bl...

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petrys The Street and Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohatas The Floating World and Chang-rae Lees Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and...