Posts Tagged ‘jubilee’
Revivals
Big TicketWith Casa Mañana suddenly going in for the newfangled likes of Spamalot and Avenue Q this summer, it’s ironic that this week the most interesting things in town are two theater troupes opening old shows.
Top Registers
With Crowns, Jubilee traces the history of African-American headwear wonderfully, if a little hastily.Stage
For Jubilee Theatre’s current gospel musical, Crowns, set designer Judd Vermillion has turned the back wall of the stage into what looks like a lady’s hat store in the 1930s Deep South.
Dying with Dignity
In Jubilee’s new production, the only gray areas are in the characters’ psyches.Stage
There’s no need for issuing “spoiler alerts” with a play titled A Lesson Before Dying.
A Dream Not Deferred
One of Ed Smith’s earliest professional aspirations was to run an African-American theater — now he’s at one of the best.Stage
Ed Smith, the man who has replaced the late Rudy Eastman as artistic director of Jubilee Theatre, has taught graduate level theater courses in prestigious universities as well as directed productions at regional stages across t...
Trippin’
Taking on August Wilson’s ‘Joe Turner,’ Jubilee succinctly conjures the play’s hallucinatory vibe.Stage
A year ago this month, the much-feted playwright August Wilson died of liver cancer at age 60, and theater companies have reacted by reviving so much of his work that it has practically constituted a national Wilson festival. H...
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