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"They Cloned Tyrone" producer Stephen Love talks creating an "instant classic," Hollywood's Black film renaissance, and more

Signature Theatre has revealed its Winter/Spring 2024 season, with work from resident playwrights Dominique Morisseau, Sarah Ruhl, and Dave Malloy.

Powers wrote and co-directed the latest Pixar film, Soul, the story of a middle school music teacher who refuses to go to the Great Beyond without a fight. Powers also wrote the screenplay for One Night In Miami, a movie about the night Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown hung out in a motel room. (The meetup was real. What they said and did is a matter of conjecture.) Kingsley Ben-Adir (MalcolmX), Aldis Hodge (Jim Brown), Eli Goree (Muhammad Ali) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Sam Cooke) star in "One Night In Miami." (Patti Perret/Amazon Studios) Both films debuted on Christmas Day. Bot...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The History Behind the Legendary Meeting in 'One Night in Miami' Screenwriter Kemp Powers, who recently co-directed Soul, discusses how his story colours between the lines in imagining the words spoken between Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown in 1964 The opening of One Night in Miami tells viewers the story is ‘inspired by true events’, but the relationship between truth and fiction in the drama is more complicated. Kemp Powers, who recently co-directed Pixar’s Soul, originally wrote the...