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Pure Vinegar in “Honeyland”

Nov 2, 2024 | culturebot.org | Catherine Sawoski

Pure Vinegar in “Honeyland” in Theater I spent the two hours after leaving Honeyland thinking about how it could be rewritten into a passable show. It was a frustrating task. What should one do with a musical whose surface goes no deeper than a 1960s Wikipedia page?
In “Cellino v. Barnes” Inside Knowledge is Too Essential

Oct 30, 2024 | culturebot.org | Catherine Sawoski

In “Cellino v. Barnes” Inside Knowledge is Too Essential in Theater The ‘Cellino v. Barnes’ play ads have been almost as inescapable as their real-life inspirations in recent months. Facebook and Instagram have become virtual billboards with plastered actors across the screen in mock legal commercials declaring that you, the onlooker, have been ‘served.’ It’s only fitting.
Terry McMillian on Black Women: “We know who we are.”

Oct 18, 2024 | ff2media.com | Catherine Sawoski

Today, October 18th, is the 73rd birthday of #1 New York Times best-selling author Terry McMillian. A tour de force in the publishing world and an acclaimed storyteller, she has shaped the popular consciousness by writing about the lives of strong black women and their attempts to find meaningful relationships with black men. Her books, which have been adapted into successful movies, have sold millions of copies worldwide and made Terry into a household name.
Toni Morrison: First Black Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature

Oct 8, 2024 | ff2media.com | Catherine Sawoski

Today, FF2 Media is celebrating the life and legacy of seminal Black author Toni Morrison, who woke up on this day in 1993 to learn that she had won the Nobel Prize in Literature! In their announcement, the Nobel committee described her as someone “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” Widely considered to be one of the most important novelists of the 20th century, Toni was the first African American woman to...
A Clean Sweep in ELEGIE’s The Maids

Oct 5, 2024 | culturebot.org | Catherine Sawoski

A Clean Sweep in ELEGIE’s The Maids in Theater Few things make you feel as lucky to live in New York as being around artists at the beginning of their careers. This is certainly the case with ELEGIE, a nascent theater company founded this past summer by Kara Gordon with an inventive production of Jean Genet’s The Maids.
Maya Lin: Celebrating the Designer of DC's Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Oct 5, 2024 | ff2media.com | Catherine Sawoski

Today, FF2 Media is proud to celebrate the 65th birthday of architect and sculptor Maya Lin.
FF2 Celebrates the Legendary Life of Dame Maggie Smith

Sep 27, 2024 | ff2media.com | Catherine Sawoski

Dame Maggie Smith, beloved actor of stage and screen, has died at 89. Over the course of her decades-long career, she collected two academy awards, five BAFTAs, a Tony award, and international admiration. Perhaps best known for playing roles like Minerva McGonagall in The Harry Potter franchise and Dowager Countess Violet Crowley in the BBC’s Downton Abbey, Maggie was a British acting legend who will be remembered and missed.
Asking More from Matthew Freeman’s “The Ask”

Sep 22, 2024 | culturebot.org | Catherine Sawoski

Asking More from Matthew Freeman’s “The Ask” in Theater Matthew Freeman, like most New York City creatives, has a day job. The award-winning playwright, who premiered his latest play, The Ask, in early September, spends his time out of the theater as a giving director at the ACLU. For the past thirteen years, he has asked rich, liberal donors for vast sums of money, from 9-5, and spent nights working on drafts of scripts.
Father/Parent, Mother/Father: Imaging the Possibility of Both in Kelindah Bee Schuster’s “seapony”

Sep 17, 2024 | culturebot.org | Catherine Sawoski

Father/Parent, Mother/Father: Imaging the Possibility of Both in Kelindah Bee Schuster’s “seapony” in Interdisciplinary The audience sits on sand while an artist simulates giving birth. Each one of their limbs dunked in a separate bucket of water, jutted in a prone crabwalk position, they declare that it is not the physicality of pregnancy that scares them, but the aftermath. What if, they wonder, their own child refuses to call them Dad?
It’s Nice to See You: An Empathetic Theatrical Experience for One

Aug 10, 2024 | culturebot.org | Catherine Sawoski

It’s Nice to See You: An Empathetic Theatrical Experience for One in Theater You – just you – walk into an empty space. The only thing visible is a note with a phone number on it, and when the voice on the other line picks up, it asks you to acknowledge that you are completely alone. It tells you to close your eyes. Fall backward, it says. Someone will be there to catch you.