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Rhoden And Richardson Pay Homage to Bowie And 24 Years Of Complexions
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Rhoden And Richardson Pay Homage to Bowie And 24 Years Of Complexions

E. Mesiyah McGinnisApril 12, 2018

Stardust takes Bowie’s 40-year career catalog and provides a visual that only choreographer and Complexions Artistic Director Dwight Rhoden could create and master. Rhoden isn’t new to the concept of paying tribute to artists, having given tribute to the musical group U2 with “RISE,” set to a score by ’80s rock band, when they performed at the John Anson Ford Theatre back in 2013, along with local Black dance company Lula Washington Dance Theatre. According to his bio, Rhoden has lectured and held positions as “Artist in Residence” at universities around the U.S and has directed and choreographed for film, theater, and live performances including E! Entertainment’s Tribute to Style and Cirque Du Soleil and for artists including Prince, Lenny Kravitz, and Kelly Clarkson. Rhoden worked on the film One Last Dance, starring Patrick Swayze. Rhoden is a 1998 New York Foundation for the Arts Award Recipient and the 2001 Rhoden Choo San Goh Award recipient for Choreography.

Addison Marks Three Decades on Stage and Film
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Addison Marks Three Decades on Stage and Film

Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff WriterMarch 5, 2018

Versatile actor co-stars in “Water By the Spoonful” at Mark Taper Forum Whether the piece is classical, contemporary or somewhere in between, count on Bernard K. Addison to master the role. The versatile performer, who has excelled in dozens of Shakespearean and Greek plays during his long career, takes on a modern character in “Water By the Spoonful,” a Center Theater Group production running at the Mark Taper Forum through March 11. “Spoonful,” set in an online chat room, examines the lives of various recovering crack cocaine addicts and Addison portrays Chutes&Ladders, a man who struggles to abstain from drugs

‘Black Panther’ Proves to be Superest of All Super Hero Movies 
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‘Black Panther’ Proves to be Superest of All Super Hero Movies 

Danny J. Bakewell, Jr., Executive Editor February 22, 2018

For African Americans the idea of seeing the first African American super hero on the big screen was enough to get old and young movie goers alike to rush out and buy tickets.  But the power of the “Black Panther,” the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an African-American lead continued to smash box office records throughout this weekend’s opening release. 

Phylicia Rashad is Still Teaching Us About Life (& Death) in ‘Head of Passes’
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Phylicia Rashad is Still Teaching Us About Life (& Death) in ‘Head of Passes’

E. Mesiyah McGinnis, Staff WriterSeptember 28, 2017

On Sunday, September 24, The Mark Taper Forum presented the opening night of the Public Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of “Head of Passes,” headlining multi-award-winning (television and stage) actress, Phylicia Rashad, accompanied by a cast of adroit supporting actors with prestigious careers to boot.  Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau, the show’s program denotes the setting as “a house near to the Head of Passes, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico.” Without Google Maps, I’m figuring like the one of those Southern Bayou towns where gumbo rules.   The time period: “A