London Launch of Motown the Musical
See Director Charles Randolph-Wright & Motown Founder Barry Gordy discuss Motown at the London launch event. Motown the Musical will hit the London stage in February, 2016.
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Broadway, dreams and faith: Stories of Broadway, hope
“Motown The Musical” director Charles Randolph-Wright and award-winning producer Kevin McCollum of “Hand to God” talk to Rev. Jacqui Lewis about their work and how stage narratives are stories of hope and faith.
NBC plans Stevie Wonder-produced miniseries about the Underground Railroad
BY ESTHER ZUCKERMAN • @EZWRITES source: NBC announced that it is producing an eight-hour miniseries about love stories on the Underground Railroad, with Stevie Wonder serving as executive producer. The miniseries, titled Freedom Run, is an adaptation of Betty DeRamus’s 2005 book Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories From the Underground Railroad. It will focus on three “specific epic journeys and […]
Ruth Johnson, York Teacher and Black Activist
BY ANDREW DYS adys@heraldonline.com Ruth Johnson, an English teacher and activist for racial equality in western York County for decades, and mother of award-winning writer/director Charles Randolph-Wright, died Thursday. She was 85. Johnson taught for years at the segregated Jefferson School in York, then at York Comprehensive High School after schools were integrated. During all […]
Longtime York funeral director Ike Wright dies at 65
By Andrew Dys, columnist – adys@heraldonline.com Longtime York funeral home owner Isaac “Ike” Wright died early Monday morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 65. Wright has run Wright Funeral Home, now in its 100th year, as his family’s business and the city’s oldest black-owned company. He was far more than a businessman, […]
Children’s Theatre has big dreams for ‘Akeelah and the Bee’
StarTribune by Rohan Preston Read the original article here: http://www.startribune.com/children-s-theatre-has-big-dreams-for-akeelah-and-the-bee/324125331/#5 Children’s Theatre has high hopes for “Akeelah and the Bee,” which will get an East Coast showcase after its local ‘Go big, or go home.” That could be the motto of the Children’s Theatre Company as it kicks off its 50th-anniversary season with the buzzy […]
Broadway director Charles Randolph-Wright returns to D.C. with a play about love and war
When you’re setting a play in a country you’ve never visited, it’s certainly a good idea to run the piece by people with more intimate knowledge of the place. This was the task dramatist Charles Randolph-Wright dutifully performed in getting his new work, “Love in Afghanistan,” up on its feet. “We just got Janet’s notes,” […]
Charles Randolph-Wright on ‘Love in Afghanistan’
Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright reflects on his new play, “Love in Afghanistan,” during its world premier at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
Year of Living Famously
Michael McCarthy | Photo: Greg Powers | September 26, 2013 Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright redefines the boundaries of romance during wartime. Charles Randolph-Wright can’t believe his good fortune. He’s about to introduce the world premiere of Love in Afghanistan at Arena Stage; he’s already getting overtures for screen adaptations of the play; and he recently watched musical luminaries Diana Ross, […]
