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10.24.2019

In the Bay State Banner: ‘What to Send Up When It Goes Down’ offers safe space for black Americans

Playwright Aleshea Harris has not just written a performance in her production, “What to Send Up When It Goes Down.” She has created a space, a community ritual and the opportunity for black audience members to breathe. Not just short, shallow, safe breaths, but gulping, life-giving, cathartic gasps. Performed by The Movement Theatre Company, an all-black ensemble, this safe space comes to Dudley Square’s Hibernian Hall Nov. 14 to 16 and to The Ex black box at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge Nov. 20 to 24.

10.16.2019

In the Boston Globe: An affluent black family spills its secrets in ‘Stick Fly’

Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly” took a classic family drama, mixed it up with issues of class and privilege, and set it in a surprising location: a well-to-do black family’s Martha’s Vineyard vacation home.

10.14.2019

In the Boston Globe: Young adult novelist Erin Entrada Kelly isn’t afraid of the dark

For her newest novel, “Lalani of the Distant Sea,” Erin Entrada Kelly turned to her Filipino ancestry to craft a mythic tale of a young girl on an epic journey. The best-selling author won the Newbery Medal for “Hello Universe,” which is being adapted by Netflix for a movie. She will speak at noon Sunday, Oct. 20 at the Dewitt Center Gym as part of the annual Boston Book Festival.

10.09.2019

On Broadway World Boston: A.R.T. To Present Community Ritual WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, under the leadership of Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Producer Diane Borger, will present the The Movement Theatre Company’s (TMTC) production of What to Send Up When It Goes Down as part of the 2019/20 A.R.T. Breakout series.