dipity

Janice's personal timeline, a place to collect and share things from Janice's life.

Created by broadwayandme on Mar 26, 2010

Last updated: 03/30/10 at 09:58 AM

• "Fences" looks for a hit with Denzel Washington
  Apr 26, 2010

• Africans and African-Americans meet in Kia Corthon's "A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick"
  Mar 28, 2010

  
  http://www.playwrightshorizons.org/sharp.asp

• "In the Heat of the Night" gets the stage treatment
  Mar 28, 2010

• American playwright Katori Hall's "Mountaintop" becomes the first work by a black playwright to w...
  Mar 23, 2010

  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/mar/23/katori-hall-the-mountaintop-review

• Suzan-Lori Parks views America through a dysfunctional interracial family in "The Book of Grace"
  Mar 16, 2010

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/03/clumsiness-of-book-of-grace.html

• An infamous case become a ministrel show in "The Scottsboro Boys"
  Mar 10, 2010

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/03/facing-up-to-return-of-black-face-in.html

• Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins revives blackface in "Neighbors"
  Mar 9, 2010

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/03/facing-up-to-return-of-black-face-in.html

• Anthony Mackie's comic character sparks controversy in "A Behanding in Spokane"
  Mar 4, 2010

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/03/behanding-in-spokane-belittles-one-of.html

• A conservative's view on race and sex in "Girls in Trouble"
  Feb 28, 2010

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/03/right-and-wrong-of-girls-in-trouble.html

• "Clybourne Park" riffs on "A Raisin in the Sun"
  Feb 28, 2010

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/02/conversations-about-race-in-clybourne.html

• "Black Angels Over Tuskegee" salutes courageous black men
  Feb 15, 2010

• The revival of the racial fable "Finian's Rainbow" closes after just 92 performances
  Jan 17, 2010

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/11/varied-charms-of-finians-rainbow.html

• "Race" gives David Mamet a Broadway podium for his views
  Dec 6, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/01/lot-of-race-talk-but-little-new-to-say.html

• No reference is made to Eisa Davis' interracial marriage in "This"
  Dec 2, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-this-is-not-for-me.html

• "Fela!" brings Afrobeat to Broadway
  Nov 23, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-fela-is-such-winnah.html

• Blacks play several roles in "The Orphans Home Cycle"
  Nov 19, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/12/at-home-with-orphans-home-cycle.html

• The British actress Ayesha Antoine steals the show in "My Wonderful Day"
  Nov 18, 2009

• Tarell Alvin McCraney lives up to the hype with the "Brother/Sister Plays"
  Nov 17, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-love-with-brothersister-plays.html

• The multicultural charcters in "Ragtime" strut their stuff on Broadway
  Nov 15, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/12/counterpoint-to-ragtime.html

• "Dreamgirls" plays The Apollo in Harlem
  Nov 6, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/11/dreamgirls-remains-audience-favorite.html

• John Douglas Thompson lends majesty to the revival of "The Emperor Jones"
  Oct 18, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-respect-for-emperor-jones.html

• "Memphis" moves its interracial love song to Broadway
  Oct 16, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/10/race-rock-and-romance-in-amiable.html

• Anna Deveare Smith portrays all kinds of people talking about health care in "Let Me Down Easy"
  Oct 7, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/10/let-me-down-easy-takes-on-hard-stuff.html

• "Broke-o-logy" showcases a functional black family at Lincoln Center
  Oct 5, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/11/theres-true-value-in-broke-ology.html

• The interracial and intergenerational friendship in "Superior Donuts" opens on Broadway
  Oct 1, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/10/superior-donuts-serves-up-something.html

• John Ortiz gives "Othello" a Latino face at the Public Theater
  Sep 27, 2009

  
  http://broadwayandme.blogspot.com/2009/09/many-modern-woes-of-othello.html