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Crazy Uncle Joe Strikes Again: Presidential Hopeful Biden Asks Crowd About Obama’s ‘Assassination’
Was it wishful thinking? Or just another off-kilter faux pas? While on the campaign trail Friday, presidential hopeful Joe Biden came out of his face with an audacious thought. The 76-year-old former Veep to forever President Barack Hussein Obama pondered the thought: “What if Barack Obama had been assassinated during his presidential campaign in 2008?…
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Otis Williams of The Temptations Weighs in on Hitting the Great White Way, His Mortality, and Patti LaBelle’s Big Lie
Otis Williams is on a roll. The founder and only original surviving member of legendary Motown group The Temptations is basking in the glory of seeing the fruits of his labor pay off with a hit Broadway musical, and recent induction into the Apollo Theater Walk of Fame. “I never would have imagined this when…
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Playwright Loy A. Webb Brings The Light to Where #MeToo, #MuteRKelly and #BlackLivesMatter Converge
Three years ago when Loy A. Webb crafted The Light, the burgeoning playwright had no idea where the world would be when her play had its New York premiere last month. The Logan Vaughn-directed drama is set in today’s Chicago and turns the idyllic concept of millennial black love on its head as a couple,…
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With Her 'Shakespearean' Little Girl Blue, Laiona Michelle Keeps Nina Simone’s Torch Burning
Nina Simone just won’t die. Ever since the High Priestess of Soul was called home to join the ancestors in 2003, her legacy has endured throughout pop culture. And that’s a good thing. Just ask Laiona Michelle—who wrote and stars in the new show, Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical, which opened at New…
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Black on the Great White Way: Actors Are Breaking Barriers, But Broadway Still Has a Long Way to Go On Diversity
When Brittney Johnson wore the crown as Glinda for Broadway’s Wicked earlier this month, the actress became the first black woman to portray the leading role in the heralded, long running show. Her Jan. 10 debut was a major milestone on the Great White Way because the Wizard of Oz-based musical has been one of…
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Rising Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Addresses Backlash Over Controversial Slave Play
Much to the chagrin of the many detractors who were in an uproar about last month’s world premiere of Slave Play, the controversial drama’s creator is getting the last laugh. It’s bittersweet, though. Jeremy O. Harris found his critically acclaimed pet project at the center of a firestorm on the heels of opening at the…
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Omarosa, in Her Own Words: The Former Trump Aide Dishes on Reactions to Her Book and Why She Doesn’t Care About Being Invited to the Cookout
The ongoing drama at the White House is the epitome of “political theater.” And it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving to a public and media with an insatiable appetite for the onslaught of egomaniacal behavior from the current leader of the free world. Omarosa Manigault Newman has borne witness—and even contributed,…
