Langston Hughes loved music. And he especially loved the blues. Learning that Chicago’s esteemed Black Ensemble Theater (BE) would be presenting a play profiling Hughes’s life naturally generated lofty expectations. At last a contemporary Black performance venue specializing in musical theater would be taking on this neglected literary giant. My Brother Langston now playing at …
It’s hard to tell how long Nick Cave has been turning things people throw away into spectacular works of art. He says he started when he was kid growing up in tiny Fulton, Missouri where his family actively encouraged him to explore the contours of his imagination. Now, several decades later, Cave still uses the …
By 1991, HIV/AIDS had been plundering the world for a decade. And even though the first antiviral drug that showed any promise of stanching it had been on the scene for six years; tens of thousands of once vital and vibrant young people were still dying every year. Dance for Life, the extravaganza of dance …
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