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Several Black playwrights have canceled productions of their works, in some cases after performances started, because of concerns about conditions at the theaters presenting them.
Dynamic and confident, Epps channeled this energy into the Pasadena Playhouse, steering the historic venue into new waters with resounding success.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Beyond Riverside and Crazy' is a great livestream theatrical offering. Plus: a streamlined opera strikes gold.
In his recently-published memoir “My Own Directions: A Black Man’s Journey in the American Theatre,” Sheldon Epps reflects on his 20-year tenure as artistic director of the Pasadena Playhouse.
After starting out at San Diego's The Old Globe in the 1990s, Sheldon Epps spent 20 years leading a suburban L.A. theater with a mostly White audience