Actors portraying real-life figures will often pick up a history book to research their roles. But the homework hasn’t been easy for actors Frank Britton and Dane Figueroa Edidi. The characters they play in Erik Ehn’s new drama Shape — African-American entertainers Billy and Cordelia McClain, respectively — were very real. But although the husband-and-wife […]
Archives for September 20, 2012
Co-author and director Ricardo Khan talks about Fly
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen gets set to open Ford’s Theatre’s season. Ricardo Khan is a man of the theatre. He is the co-founder and former artistic director of the Tony Award-winning Crossroads Theatre Company, one of the premiere African-American theatres in the country. Khan is used to telling stories through the medium of […]