An interesting question I’ve asked myself, and one I’ve been asked - plenty of times by others, from both white and black folks. The first time I remember hearing his name I was sixteen. I had just driven my grandmother in her hot new Impala convertible to Southampton County, Virginia to attend a family affair.

It was standing room only for this staged reading and it was clear the audience were already angry. The playwright will never forget that night...

Our mantra at Virginia Playwrights Forum has been, “No production before it’s time.” It took a while for us to get to this position because every writer for the stage wants to sit in the dark and see the lights go up on their baby. A few in-house missteps taught us a lesson. Unless a

Starting a Readers Theatre Group - tips for getting started making theatre without learning lines or moving on a stage

Making History as Playwrights   Telling the Story   History is written by the victors. So claimed Winston Churchill and, to a great extent this is true. The experience of Africans has largely been written out of our white textbooks. They are sometimes given a paragraph or two, amount to: America had slaves and