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This summer, Randal Myler’s off-broadway hit, “Love, Janis,” seared the national stage for the first time, presenting the meteoric rise and fall of iconic 1960s rock vocalist Janis Joplin based on letters that Joplin wrote home to her parents. In the two-actor set, singer-actress Katrina Chester (“Sex and the City”) portrayed Joplin as she lived hard and drank hard, convincingly mimicking Joplin’s raspy singing voice and incendiary stage presence in the live performance of 19 Joplin classics. Meanwhile, actress Morgan...
When Paul Robeson first played Othello on Broadway in 1943, he was given a twenty-minute standing ovation. Robeson was the first African-American actor to take the role of Othello in over a century, and his hallmark production showed both how much progress America had made on issues of race...
Before Robeson, while it was not uncommon for black actors to perform on Broadway, in America, the role of Othello had to be played by white actors in makeup. It was inconceivable that a black man could marry a white woman and kiss her onstage, even in a Shakespearean play. But as Robeson’s Othello toured the nation, playing to packed theatres in every city and amassing huge box office profits, audiences gradually became accustomed to the notion of the mixed-race pairing...
...behavior of the stockbrokers at Brooks, Weinger, Robbins & Leeds might have made for a biting off-Broadway play about sleazy morality on Wall Street -- if only the firm were fictional. The young professionals at the Manhattan penny-stock trading firm allegedly sold cocaine in stairwells, traded drugs for insider stock tips and routinely signed false names on important documents, among other offenses. Last week seven of the not-so-satirical brokerage employees were hauled away in handcuffs as part of a 19-person drug bust; it was one of the biggest undercover actions ever carried out in the Manhattan financial...
...Mart decided to rely on Garner's local knowledge, contracting Broadway Consolidated first to demolish the old factory and then to build the 150,000-sq.-ft. superstore that will employ as many as 300 people. Garner says that the work will produce between 150 and 200 construction jobs, half of which will go to minorities. Half of those minorities will be African Americans, including black men who often have the hardest time finding jobs: ex-cons. In a city whose building trades are dogged by allegations of racism and in which the unemployment rate for black...