Marc Bamuthi Joseph brings spirit to poems, festivals, ICA

He is a performance artist, a playwright, an actor, a dancer, a curator, an educator, an activist, and an environmentalist.

The best theater picks, May 11- May 13

Ntozake Shange’s ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf’ gets a local run.

Play On! Presents Poetic Stories of African American Women

The play, titled For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf , is being performed at Play On! theatre in Charlottesville.

The Broken Tower

The Broken Tower , James Franco's MFA thesis film at NYU, stars the professional graduate-degree collector as Hart Crane, the American poet who committed suicide at age 32 in 1932. Dividing the writer's short life into a series of "Voyages" (the title of a sequence of erotic poems by Crane)...

Written word animates the cafes of Hamra

At a local cafe, a young woman shares her most intimate feelings about death and politics with a roomful of strangers.