Kendeda season: Super Bowl of new plays
February means Kendeda season at the Alliance Theatre, when five newly minted playwrights share their work with the rest of the world.
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On God of Carnage
Spending an evening with the two couples at the heart of God of Carnage is a little like having drinks with George and Martha, the battling couple who set the …
Read MoreWomen of change at the Alliance Theatre: Tovah Feldshuh, Elisabeth Omilami, Lois Frank and Pearl Cleage
A fascinating discussion happened at the Alliance Theatre last month between the Alliance’s resident playwright Pearl Cleage, Broadway legend Tovah Feldshuh (currently appearing in Golda’s Balcony), civil rights activist Elisabeth …
Read More'You cannot hold back history for a cotillion'
In 1964, Pearl Cleage was a playwriting student at Howard University and a self-professed radical bohemian. “We were always marching on somebody,” she says with a laugh. When she started …
Read More'Holding body and soul together'
Way back in August, I had the pleasure of sitting down to talk with Pearl Cleage, best-selling author and playwright of The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence …
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