If you’re in Alabama’s Black Belt this summer, perhaps for this weekend’s birding festival, you’ll almost certainly get to see this haunting bird circling overhead. “It’s like going to an air show ...

Dear Readers, I’m all for a slice of life play showing the inequities in class, race, gender, etc. in the past and spotlighting how far we have not come. Such a play is Pearl Cleage’s “Blues for an ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: It’s an oppressively hot summer in New York City, in 1930, in the Great Depression, amid social upheaval during the “Harlem Renaissance” as Angel, a struggling singer who has ...

PROVIDENCE — Early in her career, Pearl Cleage’s plays — which tend to tackle issues of racism and sexism as it pertains to the Black American experience — were mostly produced by Black-owned and ...

It’s hot in Harlem, and people are doing wild things. For one: Angel, the singer at the heart of Pearl Cleage’s “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” tells off her gangster ex-boyfriend in the crowded club ...