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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 31, 2008 12:29 PM
It's no secret. When I saw Julie Dash's Daughter of the Dust I was mumbling so much the man next to me thought I had gas and offered a Rolaid. I'm joking. He actually got up and moved. And when I saw Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger I leaned over...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 28, 2008 09:57 AM
A film company once asked me to look at an urban novel and see if I could create a TV series from it. I won't reveal the title or author [some may say plagiarist] but I will say the word "Ghetto" was printed across the cover page. Now I was a snob when...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 26, 2008 07:55 AM
With the swearing-in of Governor David Paterson and the recent production of John Belluso's The Poor Itch at the Public Theater, I can't help but to meditate on the amazing resourcefulness of our disabled citizens. And their lively histories. While I...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 24, 2008 06:59 AM
Well, you've done it again. You've managed to pump out another Perry box office triumph. Two in one year is beyond commendable. It's a testament to your non-stop industriousness. And that's not a sardonic stab, that's "truly meant". And your fans, man...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 21, 2008 12:01 PM
It's true. I saw our youngest black president morph into the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. I had to splash my face with H2O to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. And I wasn't. D.B. Woodside, the black president from the series 24, is currently portraying...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 19, 2008 07:50 AM
Last night James Baldwin blew through the New York Public Library and had everyone gasping for air—in a good way. The Library organized a symposium on Baldwin moderated by my good-friend Walton Muyumba and a panel which included John Edgar Wideman, Colm...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 18, 2008 08:09 AM
My father's aunt turned 100 last week. Her children and grandchildren traveled from Michigan to D.C. to honor this biological phenomena. Intact both in mind and body, she transcends. But the story she unfolded last week has our heads spinning. For years...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 17, 2008 07:09 AM
Five years ago something bone-crazy happened. A white benefactor contacted a national playwright membership to commission someone to write a story about a real-life incident involving a black man at a white college. An African-American playwright was...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 14, 2008 09:06 AM
So the word behind the word is not that Lawrence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman and Boris Kodjoe are coming to Broadway in the next four weeks. The word behind the word is Spike Lee will make his debut as well. He'll be directing the revival of Stalag 17,...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 12, 2008 07:48 AM
Over the weekend I was hanging out with my good friend Walton, professor extraordinaire. We saw Passing Strange on Broadway, the fourth time for both of us. We hob-knobbed with a few of the actors from that show at a bistro across the street [yeh, I got...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 10, 2008 07:17 AM
Anika Noni Rose, Angela Eisa Davis and April Yvette Thompson have two things in common: one, they're all extremely talented and intelligent actresses, and two, they've all been featured in the New York Times within the last three days. I don't know about...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 7, 2008 08:42 AM
I saw Beau Willimon's Lower Ninth [his play about Katrina] and I will say this: Over a year ago I was nearly chased out of a theater workshop about Hurricane Katrina. A group of writers were brought together to discuss the impact it had on the country....
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 4, 2008 10:19 PM
I was born and shaped in Ohio so it should be easy to understand why I was glued to the polls last night. I wanted Obama to win. I know it's more crucial that he earn the superdelegate votes, but I wanted my home state to step up and show the world it's...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Mar 3, 2008 01:21 PM
A week ago I was hanging out with some theater folks after a preview of Liberty City, and of course when you have a table of Tuna Tartare-eating thespians the convo always spins into what’s hot and who’s not [in theater]. And what we pulled to the center...
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