Tag: theater

History of Black Science Fiction: Learn About Lorraine Hansberry’s Play ‘Les Blancs’

Read Nisi Shawl’s piece at Tor.com.

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, known for the classic A Raisin in the Sun (1930-1965)

‘One Piece’ Kabuki Was Such a Hit Japan’s Showing It in Theaters

Read all about it at io9.com.

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Full ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Cast Announced

Read all about it at ComingSoon.net.

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Noma Dumezweni cast as Hermione Granger, Internet Rejoices

LINK: JK Rowling: “Brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified.”

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LA Times Proclaims NBC’s The Wiz Gorgeous and Utterly Sincere

LINK: “A group of multi-talented, high-energy and personally kinetic performers”

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Coco Fusco as Dr Zira from the Planet of the Apes

Blackness as Performance

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A Downpour of Fish: Murakami on Stage

Read at the New York Review of Books.

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Novelist Haruki Murakami
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Naruto Will Be Turned into Musical Theatre

What Could Go Possibly Wrong?

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Natsu Onoda Power play honors Manga hero & creator

Astro Boy and the God of Comics
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El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom

Play tackles comic books, ethnicity, identity & family
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