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Dorothy West  and the Harlem  Renaissance artists  and activists  get settled into the Grand Hotel, and enjoy the lavish  luxuries the Soviets have to offer.  Caviar anyone? While exploring Moscow, Mildred  Jones and Langston Hughes push the prim and proper  Dorothy out of her comfort zone.  While partying,   the group  finally meets the director of the film, Carl Jungans  but the all-Black cast  sees red flags as the filmmaker reveals himself to be quite ignorant when it comes to race.

The production of the film “Black And White”  gets underway IN Moscow with a less than stellar first rehearsal that is only saved by the star of the Harlem Renaissance performers, Sylvia Garner.    Langston  Hughes reveals his doubts on the script. Dorothy West receives devastating news from home and then struggles to understand the comfort she finds in Mildred Jones. As the group becomes more comfortable in Moscow,  they are surprised with a trip to Odessa, only to learn that the film is in even bigger trouble than they thought. 

The new play, directed by Broadway's Zhailon Levingston, will feature actors Nic Ashe and Broderick Clavery.

The practice of writing a stranger for help with a problem -- advice columns, in other words -- dates back at least to the 17th century. Yet when memoirist Cheryl Strayed took over the "Dear Sugar" column at The Rumpus website, she turned 400 years of tradition on its head. On March 11, 2010, her very first answer -- given to the question "What sort of advice column is this?" -- would set the tone.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock department of theater arts and dance stages "Beckett's Briefs: Short Works by Samuel Beckett," 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Haislip Theatre on the UALR campus in Little Rock.