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- Location:
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Birthday:
- April 27, 1945
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August Wilson
On Monday April 27th @ 7:00p, True Colors Theatre in association with LEAP, leapnyc.org--will be holding it's first National August Wilson Monologue Competition. High school students from Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and New York City will be competing for over $80,000 in scholarship money. There will also be spec...ial performances by Phylicia Rashad and Ruben Santiago-Hudson! So, if you're in NYC, stop by!Read More
August Wilson
We'd like to draw your attention to the first annual National August Wilson Monolouge Competition for high school students. Competing students will hail from Atalanta, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and New York City.
Below is a flyer for the NYC all-school leg to be held on Monday, April 6th. If you happen to be in NYC, please stop by!
Joe Turner's Come and Gone at The Belasco Theatre Set in the year 1911, this is the second play in August Wilson's towering 10-part, decade-by-decade account of African-American lives in Pittsburgh...
August Wilson
* "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (by August Wilson)
Set in 1927 Chicago, prohibition had driven the booze underground and the speakeasies are filled with talented Black musicians who have migrated north. Getrude "Ma" Rainey (seated in picture) is late. While waiting for this "Blues" diva to appear in a seedy Chicago recor...ding studio, the ensemble of four (4) musicians (left-to-right standing, Slow Drag, Levee, Toledo and Cutler - the band leader) who make up her band take advantage of the time to bicker, debate, play games or verbal one-upmanship and even tune up. When Gertrude "Ma" Rainey finally arrive, matters of repertory and Ma's insistence on allowing her stuttering nephew (Sylvester) to introduce the double-entendre title song disrupt and delay the recording, setting in motion a destructive turn of events.
Director - Cornell Jones
Asst. Director - Tyrone Requer
CAST
MA RAINEY - Valerie M. Lewis
STURDYVANT - Roger MacDonald
IRVIN - William Amland
CUTLER - Maurice X. Daniel
TOLEDO - Archie Williams
TOLEDO - Les Lamar (BOX)
SLOW DRAG - Bruce Allen Dawson
LEVEE - Jerome Banks Bey
DUSSIE MAE - Chevee Crafton (performing Sept 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21)
DUSSIE MAE - Natalie Graves Tucker (performing Sept 12, 13, 14, 26, 27, 28)
SYLVESTER - Octavius Johnson
POLICEMAN - Warren Watson
Performances are on Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm as well as matinees on Sunday at 2:00pm.
* There will be a total of: TWELVE (12) PERFORMANCES
You are cordially invited to attend this spectacular stage play irregardless of what City or State you may currently reside in. Come spend an exclusive day or evening in historic Baltimore. We assure you'll have a fabulous time and enjoy this awesome production written by the late Mr. August Wilson.
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Please note that all posted photos for this production of, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" by the Vagabond Players, Inc. were taken by the following photographer:
Mr. Tom Lauer
Website: www.tomlauerphotographics.com
Email: tomlauer500@msn.com
Tele: (717) 487-0868
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Set in 1927 Chicago, prohibition had driven the booze underground and the speakeasies are filled with talented Black musicians who have migrated north. Getrude "Ma" Rainey (seated in picture) is late. While waiting for this "Blues" diva to appear in a seedy Chicago recor...ding studio, the ensemble of four (4) musicians (left-to-right standing, Slow Drag, Levee, Toledo and Cutler - the band leader) who make up her band take advantage of the time to bicker, debate, play games or verbal one-upmanship and even tune up. When Gertrude "Ma" Rainey finally arrive, matters of repertory and Ma's insistence on allowing her stuttering nephew (Sylvester) to introduce the double-entendre title song disrupt and delay the recording, setting in motion a destructive turn of events.
Director - Cornell Jones
Asst. Director - Tyrone Requer
CAST
MA RAINEY - Valerie M. Lewis
STURDYVANT - Roger MacDonald
IRVIN - William Amland
CUTLER - Maurice X. Daniel
TOLEDO - Archie Williams
TOLEDO - Les Lamar (BOX)
SLOW DRAG - Bruce Allen Dawson
LEVEE - Jerome Banks Bey
DUSSIE MAE - Chevee Crafton (performing Sept 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21)
DUSSIE MAE - Natalie Graves Tucker (performing Sept 12, 13, 14, 26, 27, 28)
SYLVESTER - Octavius Johnson
POLICEMAN - Warren Watson
Performances are on Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm as well as matinees on Sunday at 2:00pm.
* There will be a total of: TWELVE (12) PERFORMANCES
You are cordially invited to attend this spectacular stage play irregardless of what City or State you may currently reside in. Come spend an exclusive day or evening in historic Baltimore. We assure you'll have a fabulous time and enjoy this awesome production written by the late Mr. August Wilson.
****************************************
Please note that all posted photos for this production of, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" by the Vagabond Players, Inc. were taken by the following photographer:
Mr. Tom Lauer
Website: www.tomlauerphotographics.com
Email: tomlauer500@msn.com
Tele: (717) 487-0868
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Limited Engagement - 12 Perfomances Only - An Absolute "MUST SEE"
Time:8:00PM Friday, September 5th
Location:Vagabond Theatre, Baltimore (in Fells Point), Maryland 21231
Voices Warped by the Business Blues By BEN BRANTLEY Published: April 30, 2005 In "Radio Golf," John Earl Jelks plays the ex-convict Sterling Johnson, who still speaks the anecdote-rich vernacular of the Hill...
Sailing Into Collective Memory By BEN BRANTLEY Published: December 7, 2004 Walls turn into water in the second act of "Gem of the Ocean," the grandly evangelical new play by August Wilson that opened last night at the Walter Kerr Theater...
The Agonized Arias Of Everyman In Poverty and Pain By BEN BRANTLEY Published: May 2, 2001, Wednesday Voices go hurtling to heaven in August Wilson's ''King Hedley II,'' gut-deep cries of confusion that keep pushing toward some elusive ecstasy of understanding...
Finding Drama in Life, and Vice Versa By BEN BRANTLEY Published: April 26, 2000, Wednesday A lot of advice gets handed out in the thoroughly engrossing new staging of August Wilson's ''Jitney,'' a play written two decades ago but never before seen in Manhattan...
Unrepentant, Defiant Blues For 7 Voices By VINCENT CANBY Published: March 29, 1996, Friday A LITTLE more than a month before it officially ends, the Broadway season begins...
