Tag: broadway

• From The Vault: A 2015 Interview with Rain Pryor

  

  The below Q&A was an interview I conducted sometime in 2015 when I was a Staff Blogger at the website, HelloBeautiful. I was asked if I would be interested in talking to Rain Pryor about her one-woman show Fried Chicken & Latkes and I immediately said yes to the assignment. I certainly knew who she […]

  C.S.J.

  February 9, 2022

  ART, BROADWAY/THEATRE, COMEDY, HUMOR, NEWS, NOSTALGIA, POLITICS, RACE POLITICS/RACISM, SOCIETY

  2010s, biracial, black women, broadway, comedy, FOOD, Jewish, Rain Pryor, Richard Pryor, theater, women in comedy

• “Milk Like Sugar” Is A Bittersweet Capsule Of Teenage Pregnancy & Growing Up

  Milk Like Sugar is the kind of wordplay, that without hesitation, brings you to a halt. Printed on its promotional poster, in white, capitalized letters, against a hot pink background and a big baby bottle. I recall quizzically reciting the title of the play “Milk…like sugar…” I was enticed. What did that even mean? Did I […]

  C.S.J.

  April 12, 2016

  EVENT, LIFE, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO

  Boston, broadway, Milk Like Sugar, plays, teens, theater, theatre

• Why Broadway’s Recent Surge Of Diversity Should Be Putting A Smile On Your Face

  

  We might have to hand over some pun-ny, new nicknames for Broadway’s main-stay tagline of “The Great White Way”, considering the growing embrace of Black actors and actresses in some of its most celebrated productions! In 2014 alone, two barriers were broken as Norm Lewis became the first Black male to play the manipulative yet seductive Phantom in […]

  C.S.J.

  June 20, 2015

  BROADWAY/THEATRE, HISTORY, INSPIRATION, MUSIC, NOSTALGIA, RACE POLITICS/RACISM, SOCIETY, VIDEO

  black actors, brandy, broadway, Cinderella, Keke Palmer