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Premieres Thursday, April 6 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + PBS App + Encores Saturday, April 8 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, April 10 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Join Emmy-Award winning host michael taylor this season as he interviews some of today’s most influential people of color in theatre before a live audience. This week: the Director of Performing Arts at the California Center for the Arts, and the first Black Lighting Director in the country, are paving the way for diversity in the industry behind-the-scenes.

The television series promotes diversity and inclusion in theatre.

The rarely produced Stephen Sondheim musical is about the artist's struggle to create

I’m a big fan of Fats. Three of them, specifically. There’s Minnesota Fats; although it’s really more that I was a fan of Jackie Gleason, who played Fats in “The Hustler.” I’m a huge fan of Fats Domino. When I was a kid first getting into music, some of my favorite records were the 45s

The jazz-age pianist and composer's music was the soundtrack of New York's Harlem Renaissance