Episode 6: Epilogue
In this episode we gather reflections from artists and scholars on Childress’s enduring legacy.
Guests: Soyica Colbert, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, friends of CLASSIX
Feb 20, 2023
31 min
pisode 5: Directing Childress
A group of directors (and uber-Childress fans!) gather to chat about their experiences directing her works..
Moderated by Arminda Thomas
Guests: Jade King Carroll, Dominique Rider, Awoye Timpo, Nicole Watson
Feb 13, 2023
36 min
Episode 4: Making Wedding Band
This week we take a deep dive into the 2022 production of Childress’s Wedding Band at Theatre for a New Audience, marking the first professional production of the play in New York since 1972. Members of the cast and creative team join Dominique for a conversation about bringing this masterpiece to life.
Guests: Jason Ardizzone-West, Brittany Bradford, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo, Elizabeth Van Dyke
Feb 6, 2023
44 min
Dominique speaks with Professor Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, and numerous other works.
Guest: Mary Helen Washington
Jan 30, 2023
38 min
This week Dominique and Arminda are joined by legendary lighting designer and historian Kathy A. Perkins about her collaboration with Alice Childress and how she came to edit the anthology of Childress’s plays.
Guest: Kathy A. Perkins
Jan 23, 2023
37 min
Host Dominique Rider connects with dramaturg and CLASSIX team member Arminda Thomas to talk through the biography and legacy of Alice Childress.
Guest: Arminda Thomas
Jan 16, 2023
51 min
Playwright, performer, novelist, and cultural critic, Alice Childress looms as an incredibly important but often forgotten figure within the history of our American theater. The breadth of her writing intersects with major movements of Black artistic and political thought, and yet, until recently her work has been relegated to the shadows. For Act 2 of (re)clamation, CLASSIX shines a light on the life, work and legacy of Alice Childress.
Jan 9, 2023
57 sec
In this episode, the full CLASSIX team gets together for a deep-dive exploration into the 1903 Broadway musical In Dahomey.
Featuring: Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo
Featuring the voices of: Steven Anthony Jones, Kareem Lucas
Aug 8, 2022
56 min
What falls apart, what shifts, and what remains? A conversation about the legacy of the minstrelsy era.
Hosted by Brittany Bradford
Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience
Guests include: Michael Dinwiddie, Rhiannon Giddens and Ayanna Thompson
Featuring: Galen Kane, Korey Jackson, Motell Foster, Steven Anthony Jones, Toussaint JeanLouis
Aug 1, 2022
33 min
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