After Slave Play closed on Broadway in January 2020, playwright Jeremy O. Harris was whisked off to London for a new production of Daddy, his other controversial play about race, sex, trauma, power, love, and kink. When the Almeida Theatre shut down in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, Harris …
Read More »'The First Time' With Actor Okieriete Onaodowan
Broadway may still be shut downdue to the COVID-19 pandemic, but fans hoping to catch the hit musicalHamilton can stream it online beginning July 3rd on Disney+. As TV critic Alan Sepinwall recently wrote of this new filmed version of the stage production: “Each song, each scene seems meant for …
Read More »Lin-Manuel Miranda Honors Mobb Deep's Prodigy With 'Boom Goes the Cannon' Video
Lin-Manuel Miranda pays tribute to late Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy with the new video for “Boom Goes the Cannon…,” the rap duo’s contribution to the Hamildrops series. “I paid homage to Mobb Deep in Hamilton by having Alexander Hamilton quote one of Prodigy’s most immortal lyrics: ‘I’m only 19 but …
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