Ain’t no mountain high enough to throw shade on Jacqueline “Jackie” Marie Butler (the incandescent, triple threat Felicia Curry), the heroine of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ world premiere play Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains, the third and final (wah!) installment of Jennings’ coming of age trilogy. The play is the first in Everyman Theatre’s […]
Review: Queens Girls in Africa at Everyman Theatre
How many me’s can you fit in one teenage body? Jacqueline Marie Butler (Erika Rose) ponders this question and endeavors to find her place in the world in Queens Girl in Africa, D.C. playwright Caleen SInnette Jennings’ bright, welcoming one-actor show playing in repertory with her Queens Girl in the World at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre. […]
Review: Queens Girl in the World at Everyman Theatre
2933 Erickson Street may prove to be as potent and prescient as August Wilson’s 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the setting for many of his epic plays and the place where Aunt Ester lives, the spiritual beacon who will “set you right” and is as old as slavery. The 2933 Erickson Street address […]