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The KC Melting Pot theater will hold their third annual Black Playwright Festival beginning Friday, July 8. The festival will showcase three plays written by Black playwrights and will be

Fade to Black Festival features ten, ten-minute plays (all premieres) by Black playwrights whose work runs the gamut of topics and genres

Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective and The American Myth Center, both in Asheville, are working to locate and provide opportunities for Black Playwright's to be seen and heard. Stephanie Hickling Beckman, the managing artistic director for Different Strokes, joined WNCW to share the news about the desire to find and help emerging African American playwrights. This conversation originally aired on Feb. 18, 2022.

Filed in Features on December 16, 2020 The US-Ireland Alliance recently announced the 12 members of the George J. Mitchell Scholar Class of 2022. One of the country’s most prestigious scholarship programs, it sends future American leaders to the island of Ireland for a year of graduate study. The scholarship program was named in honor of U.S. Senator George Mitchell’s role as chairman of the Northern Ireland peace talks. A record number of 453 individuals applied this year – a 22 percent increase over the previous record set two years ago. Half of the semifinalists and half of the fina...