New ‘Our Town’ helps open our eyes to diversity

New ‘Our Town’ helps open our eyes to diversity

(Photo by Arnulfo Maldonado) Emily Webb (Thallis Santesteban) takes a moment for contemplation in Miami New Drama’s world premiere production of a new staging of Our Town MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Birth isn’t one of the major life cycle events at the center of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Our...

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Award-winning producer steers August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ to Broadway

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — Chalk up another success for award-winning Broadway producer Ron Simons — putting on Broadway the only August Wilson “Pittsburgh Cycle” play that has yet to appear on the  Great White Way. Simons doesn’t have a definitive answer as to why Wilson’s play “Jitney” had never...

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