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To close “Be)Holding Love & Loss: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Series on Grief,” the play "Eurydice" ran at Asbury United Methodist Church from Nov. 14-18. The play, which explores ....
Historic Hattiloo Theater is one of only 4 Black theaters in the country Historic Hattiloo Theater is one of only 4 Black theaters in the country By Joy Redmond | February 4, 2021 at 8:11 PM CST - Updated February 9 at 2:37 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - For 14 years now, Hattiloo Theatre’s been making history, not just in the Mid-South but also across the country. Hattiloo Theatre, in Overton Square, is the only free-standing black repertory theater in the Mid-South which is one of only four black theatres in the country. “I was running this like weekly type of poetry thing and open mic thing and there was this guy, this kind of boisterous white guy, that came every Thursday and he said ‘what do black people do on the weekend in Memphis?’ I said I don’t know, ask em,” said Ekundayo Bandele, Founder & CEO of Hattiloo Theatre. “I said I know what I do. And so he knew my theater background a couple of weeks later he was like do you wanna open up a ....