Awoye Timpo on Love, Hate, and Alice Childress’s ‘Wedding Band’
As the director of a new production at TFANA, Timpo joins the project of belatedly celebrating a great but largely overlooked American playwright.
All Stories About Alice Childress
Roundabout ‘Refocus Project’ to Stage Readings of 20th-Century Black Playwrights
A new project to put the focus on marginalized voices opens with a series showcasing under-sung plays, in hopes of seeding future productions.
Roundabout Postpones Season to Spring, Adds Childress’s ‘Trouble in Mind’
Next spring the theatre plans to mount ‘Caroline, or Change’ and ‘1776,’ and in the fall and winter, ‘Birthday Candles’ and ‘Trouble in Mind,’ in its belated Main Stem bow.
The Timely Ring of ‘Wedding Band’
Alice Childress’s seldom-produced interracial love story, though set a century ago, gave off fresh sparks at the Intiman.
Alice Childress’s Little-Seen ‘Wedding Band’ Gets the Classic Treatment
In staging Alice Childress’s obscure 1962 play, the classical-oriented Antaeus Company is making a statement about the play’s value—and its relevance.
