Original Article from Broadway World by BWW News Desk
Actors Kimberly Elise and Anthony Anderson hosted the 18th annual NAACP Theatre Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on June 30.
Category: Theatre
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Daily Bruin Theatre Review: Butterflies of Uganda
Original Article at DailyBruin.com by Linda Chang
“Butterflies of Uganda” immediately grabs your attention with the opening line: “Let me tell you a story. I was conceived in rape.” The speaker is Mercy, an Acholi girl from Uganda who is abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa to become a child soldier, and the words are all the more gripping because they are based on true events.
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Broadway World: Photo Preview – ‘Butterflies of Uganda’ World Premiere
Original Article at Broadway World by BWW
The world premiere of Butterflies of Uganda: The Memories of a Child Soldier A Harrowing Story of Abduction, Escape and Reconciliation begins previews September 5th, opens September 8th and runs through October 13th at the Greenway Arts Alliance’s The Greenway Court Theatre (544 North Fairfax Avenue) in Los Angeles.
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LA Times Review: Colored Contradictions
Original Article from LA Times by Daryl H. Miller
The power of the black experience
The show begins with a scene from George C. Wolfe’s deconstructionist comedy “The Colored Museum” in which a woman, dancing with joyous abandon, tells us there’s a party going on inside of her that connects her to “everybody and everything that’s ever been” a part of African American history. “My power,” she says, “is in my madness and my colored contradictions.” (more…)
