Marco Ramirez Exposes Perils of Black Sports Heroes by Robert M. Gardner & Barry David Horwitz Jay “The Sport” Jackson is a hero. He knows it, everyone knows it. Khris Davis plays the role confidently, with sharp suits and supreme self-knowledge. Jay just wants to fight for the Heavyweight Championship against the Great White…
Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s Poetry Brings Beauty to Disaster by Robert M. Gardner & Barry David Horwitz The New York Public Theater is offering a world premiere audio play, “Shadow/Land,” powered by poetry, music, and a stellar cast. In 2005, two Black women trapped by the floods of Hurricane Katrina, expose the dual disasters of racism…
Lasiter & Barnaba Light the Ring of Fire by Robert M. Gardner The first words of Johnny Cash’s last recorded song, “I hurt myself today,” still haunt me. Like other songs in “My Name is … Johnny Cash,” it reveals new truths about the storied career of The Man in Black. The bio-musical demonstrates…
L. Peter Callender Creates Explosive Exposé of Apartheid by Robert M. Gardner Highly esteemed director and actor L. Peter Callender has written a moving and important play he calls “Strange Courtesies” that tackles racism and hypocrisy in both South Africa, and in the U.S., today. The virtual world premiere is on line now, from…