Topic: Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Why 'Stick Fly' Is Must-See Theater

The Root - 62 days ago
Set in Martha's Vineyard, the Broadway play takes a stereotype-free look at black family life.. . Telling a "black" story that is free of...

The Merchant of Venice + The Winter's Tale

Time Out New York - 591 days ago
The Merchant of Venice is the product of a culture where anti-Semitism was the norm. ? ?The quality of mercy is not strained?) Shakespeare seeks to complicate the demonization of Jews with moralizing poesy, but the play ultimately expects us to laugh at ...

Things of Dry Hours

Time Out New York - 978 days ago
Earnest, lyrical, idea-driven theater ought to be medicine for the mind but taste sweet as liquor, right? Such worries nag the viewer of Things of Dry Hours, Naomi Wallace's gorgeously written and philosophically rich celebration of a black Communist agitator in ...

Still in the race

Time Out New York - 1278 days ago
In the '70s and '80s, the troupe-cum-training-program Negro Ensemble Company turned out the finest black actors in the country. Actor-writer-director Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who appeared in the national tour of A Soldier's Play, believes that no matter what the NEC's problems ...