The success of this production rests on the voices of the actresses and what a success it is! Without incredible singers, the ...

Captivating, empowering and appropriately uncomfortable, “Nina Simone: Four Women” delivered a message I think everyone ...

As the city prepares for Super Bowl Sunday, Local Arts Advocate and Critic Tom Alvarez encourages the community to support ...

Akili Ni Mali, an actor and independent recording artist, will perform as Nina Simone in two shows this February, honoring Black History Month.

The High Priestess of Soul shook the world with her powerful music. In the depths of the Civil Rights struggle, Nina Simone used song as a means of expressing the nation’s anguish—and ...

Vanessa Severo in Frida . . . A Self Portrait at Writers Theatre Credit: Zach Rosing, Courtesy Indiana Repertory Theatre Vanessa Severo’s passionate admiration for Frida Kahlo comes through ...

Regardless of what it is called, diversity, equity and inclusion (and belonging) has been around longer than many people may ...

City Theatre in Pennsylvania, Northern Stage in Vermont, Syracuse Stage in New York and Indiana Repertory Theatre. George Anthony Richardson plays Shawn in Rajiv Joseph’s “King James” at ...

Vanessa Severo in “Frida … A Self Portrait” at Writers Theatre in Glencoe. (Zach Rosing / Indiana Repertory Company) I have some caveats: At a couple of points, Severo says that she has ...