CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
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Interview: Writer Bill Haney, Regina Kelly on the Struggle, Uplift in ‘American Violet’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 17, 2009 - 3:05pmCHICAGO – In a previous interview, director Tim Disney of the new film ‘American Violet’ called his film one where “change begins, and change is possible, when individuals make choices and stand behind them.”
Interview: Director Tim Disney on Incarceration Laws in ‘American Violet’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 16, 2009 - 4:55pmCHICAGO – In his third film, “American Violet,” director Tim Disney tackles the subject of unfair incarceration laws involving a poor African-American housing project in a rural Texas town.
