My love for Thundercat aka Steve Bruner’s funky, irreverent, virtuoso bassist, singer, and songwriter has been almost a decade in the making now since his first album, 2011’s Golden Age of the Apocalypse a bright and cheerful, soul-funk-jazz album that sounded like nothing else at the time just resonated with me.
Read MoreNot nearly enough has changed in terms of the complexity of roles written for black actors onstage. While I feel our representation is frequently discussed in film and media, the conversation about black theatre is treated like the stepchild who needs braces. Theatre has long been viewed as a white space, but it is the job of black and brown writers to change the narrative.
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