Misogynoir is taken to task in Shotgun’s virtual production of Loy A. Webb’s breezy script.
The last film I saw before lockdown was one of the best Black romance films I’ve seen in nearly 20+ years.
Rotimi Agbabiaka delivers another winning solo show satirizing race, sexuality, and hunger for fame.
Aurora’s final 2019 is a winning dramatic-comedy set during the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Christina Anderson’s examination of Black bodily autonomy is wonderfully realized by Crowded Fire.
Shotgun delivers one of the year’s best shows with James Ijames’ meditation on Black lives ended too soon.
Dazié Grego-Sykes’ incendiary Fringe solo show gets a full staging (such as it is) at EXIT Stage Left.
In which I catch up with two brand new Bay Area shows based exclusively around Black women.
2018’s holiday haul included a sweet Spidey spin-off, a great non-Rocky sequel, and a Bay-free bot-flick.
Barry Jenkins uses James Baldwin’s classic novel to create one of the best films of 2018.
Ebony Powers: ‘Manifesto’ at Brava
Rotimi Agbabiaka delivers another winning solo show satirizing race, sexuality, and hunger for fame.