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The Color Purple opens with two little girls–Celie (Felicia Bosworth) and her younger sister Nettie (Danea C. Osseni)–giggling and playing a game. Flash to 14-year-old Celie holding a [...]

Damon Runyon was one of those hard-living, gritty newspaper reporters of the 1920s and ’30s who liked to get his hands dirty. As a short story writer, he fictionalized some of the colorful [...]

Dael Orlandersmith’s solo show Forever opens at Jim Morrison’s grave in the famed Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where the playwright has come to connect with her [...]

Those of you who know me personally are familiar with my background: born in northern Idaho; grew up in eastern Oregon; fell off a turnip truck. Fortunately for me, there was that brilliant and [...]