In 2008, actress and writer Charlayne Woodard was searching for a new stage piece to mount and found a story in her own backyard. The Night Watcher, Woodward’s one-woman show now playing at D.C.’s Studio Theatre, is a powerful and well-acted piece. Woodward sizzles as a best friend, advisor, confidant and sage to the many […]
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Black Woman Who Walked for Peace Now Walking for the Environment
Audri Scott Williams walked thousands of miles to promote peace, now she’s on the move again, this time to bring attention to the environment. Williams, 57, is a little more than two weeks into a six-week walk from Washington D.C. to Tuskegee, Ala., her home. She struck out with a group of supporters March 1 […]
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Fine Acting, Intriguing Plot Highlight The Mountaintop
The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s humanistic portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is on stage at the CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore through Feb. 24 and offers a rare glimpse of King as an ordinary, simple man with flaws. Featuring Shawn Hamilton as King, the play portrays the civil rights leader on the last night of his […]
