#Dominique Morisseau

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Congratulations to Phylicia Rashad for her Tony Awards Win for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for her work in Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew! ✨

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News: Ain't Too Proud offers some serious temptation with their Temptations

News: @AintTooProudLDN offers some serious temptation with their Temptations

The producers of the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud are thrilled to announce the West End quintet taking on the iconic roles of The Temptations at the Prince Edward Theatre from Friday 31 March 2023. Cameron Bernard Jones as Melvin Franklin, Kyle Cox as Paul Williams, Sifiso Mazibuko as Otis Williams, Tosh Wanogho-Maud as David Ruffin and Mitchell Zhangazha as Eddie…

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2022 Downtown Urban Arts Festival Announces 20th Anniversary Line-Up

The festival, which has previously presented new works by Dominique Morisseau, Martyna Majok, and more, will take the stage at Off-Broadway's Theatre Row.

BY LEAH PUTNAM

MAY 04, 2022

Downtown Urban Arts Festival will celebrate its 20th Anniversary at Theatre Row with a series of new works June 1–25, including four full-length plays and 12 one acts in addition to an extended engagement of James Earl Hardy’s B-Boy Blues The Play.

Based on Hardy's novel series telling a gay hip-hop love story, B-Boy Blues The Play will be directed by Stanley Bennett Clay and is set to run June 3–25.

The line-up also includes Phantasmagoria by Alethea Harnish June 8, which follows a young woman as she forsakes home, family, and faith during a university-sanctioned quarantine; Alano P. Baez's Soul Survivor June 15, a play about a imprisoned man contemplating his life, Sam Cooke, and the history of Black oppression in America while awaiting execution; For Colored Boyz on the verge of a nervous breakdown/ when freedom aint enuff by Bryan-Keyth Wilson June 18, exploring a Black man's perspective; and The Pride by Joy June 25, which looks in on the Baker family and their home where God is first and women are kings.

One acts announced for the first half of the festival include Marcus Harmon's 20th Anniversary, about two firefighters 20 years after 9/11, and Cris Eli Blak's The Hard Knock Lyfe, about a rapper diagnosed with AIDS, to be presented June 1; Socky Tells All by Rollin Jewett, following young mental institution patient Andy, and The Palmist by Sheila Duane, which asks if fortune tellers can see the dark corners of a person's mind, set for June 2; and Marcus Scott's Forever and a Day, following a young boy genius trying to combat violence against young Black people, and Jennifer Cendana Armas' The Love Not Together, following the struggle to make love work, to be performed June 9.

Following in the second half of the month, one act performances will include Run by Elle, a contemporary opera about a woman awakening post-revelation, and Adulting by Amira Mustapha, which follows 30-something Muslim Miriam and her friend Liz through the process of coping, both presented June 16; Zoe Howard's Midnight Mirage, featuring two strangers connecting on a subway platform as time warps around them, and Christin Eve Cato's The Good Cop, which presents civil rights journalist Anita's journey to break the blue wall of silence, presented June 22; and A Shot Rang Out by Michael Hagins, about a white police officer trapped during a protest with a scared Black teen and a disgruntled schoolteacher, and Stoop by Isa Guzman, a play about generational differences and coming out as Transgender within a predominantly Latino community, presented June 23.

In its two-decade history, DUAF has presented nearly 300 new plays by over 200 emerging and established playwrights including Dominique Morisseau, Martyna Majok, Nelson Diaz-Marcano, Carl Hancock Rux, Craig MuMs Grant, and Ming Peiffer.

Tickets and information are available at duafnyc.com.

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Moses Ingram

Returning to theatre in Dominique Morisseau's play [“Sunset Baby”] has been a healing experience for the actor. — Playbill Magazine 02/09/2024

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She deserved better than what some of y’all did.

Fight me.

(I have time.)

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The Storytellers Transforming The American Theatre | Harper's BAZAAR

American theatre is at the heart of entertainment, and these powerful faces are here to evolve the story of what theatre can be. Watch along as household names Alicia Keys, Sade Lythcott, Suzan-Lori Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Sarah Jones, Dominique Morisseau, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Danai Gurira, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, and more talk about their experience growing within the theatre community. Listen to the stories of how theatre can be bold, speaks to topics that challenges form, and represents voices both on and off the stage. 

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Everyday Poetry - “Everyone deserves to have their story fully told.” Dominique Morisseau 

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Judge the Jewels: Dominique Morisseau’s Jaw-Dropping Lorraine West Ear Cuff https://instoremag.com/judge-the-jewels-dominique-morisseaus-jaw-dropping-lorraine-west-ear-cuff/

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Tony Awards 2022 - Fave looks ♥️  

~Kara Young, Jeannette Bayardelle,Tamara Tunie, Barbara Whitman, Jessica Chastain, Paris Jackson, Uzo Aduba, Carmen Cusack, Colman Domingo, Cara DiPietro, Cynthia Erivo, Jeremy Pope, Billy Porter, Leslie Bibb, Ariana DeBose, Emilio Sosa, Julianne Hough, Jordan Roth, Ruth Negga, Phillipa Soo, Patti LuPone, Jonathan Groff, Skylar Astin, Vanessa Hudgens, Myles Frost, Charlie Rosen, Dominique Morisseau

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"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Sunset Baby

March 9, 2024 | Off-Broadway | Signature Theatre | Matinee | Play | Revival | 1H 40M

It took about fifteen or twenty minutes for me to get into it, but once I was in, I was riveted. Moses Ingram, making her New York debut as Nina, absolutely crushed this role. She had me weeping by the end. I love Dominique Morisseau. Her plays depict such rich, messy, wonderfully flawed characters in these little pockets of time and space. And while this isn't something you can necessarily control, I do highly suggest seeing her work with an audience of color. Largely Black audiences give back so much more enthusiasm and energy to her shows as opposed to when I've seen her plays with a mostly-white crowd. No surprise there.

Verdict: You Can Pry This Show Out of My Cold Dead Hands

A Note on Ratings

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Echo: Theatre-News.com UK premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew added to Donmar Warehouse 2024 Programme - #SkeletonCrew #DonmarWarehouse @DonmarWarehouse http://dlvr.it/T3Yssx

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Theatre-News.com UK premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew added to Donmar Warehouse 2024 Programme - #SkeletonCrew #DonmarWarehouse @DonmarWarehouse http://dlvr.it/T3Wv4X

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The Apollo’s Dining with The Divas Luncheon Hosted by Bevy Smith Raises $450k for Arts Education

Photo: Shahar Azran Photography Speakers included Depelsha McGruder, Ford Foundation; Tiffany R. Warren, Sony Music; playwright and actor Dominique Morisseau  Musical performance by Amber Iman and Quentin Darrington from Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical and special appearance from DJ Twin Duo, Angel and Dren The Apollo and Michelle Ebanks, its President and CEO, proudly announce the…

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Sunset Baby Review

The first meeting between Kenyatta and Nina is tense, as it surely would be for any father and daughter who have not seen each other for many years. But their encounter in this revival of Dominique Morisseau’s decade-old play could not be more fraught. Kenyatta  Shakur (Russell Hornsby), a black revolutionary who spent many years in prison after robbing an armored truck to fund the cause, hasn’t…

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🎭#ArtIsAWeapon I am so excited about @domorisseau 's new play "Sunset Baby," and #BlackTheaterNight is back tonight @signatureinnyc!

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth

Tickets and info: https://signaturetheatre.org/show/sunset-baby/

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480 West 42nd Street, #NYC 10036

Reposted from @signatureinnyc

Join us for SUNSET BABY'S first Black Theater Night of the season on Friday, February 2!

Come to the lobby at 6:30 PM for a pre-show happy hour and live DJ set with Co-Sound designer J. Keys (AKA DJ Keyzeee).

Following the performance, Artist and Activist, Trevor Hayes, will moderate a talkback with Playwright Dominique Morisseau, Director Steve H. Broadnax III, cast members Moses Ingram (Nina), Russell Hornsby (Kenyatta) @russoulhornsby, and J. Alphonse Nicholson (Damon) @j_fonz.

Written by Tony Award® nominee and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Dominique Morisseau, and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, this play, set in East New York, Brooklyn, is a story about love, political action, and one woman’s journey from a brutal existence to her own liberation.

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