Gordon Cox Theater EditorOne of the most prominent legacy Black theaters in America is transforming itself, and it’s more than just a pandemic-era pivot.
In the coming years, Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minn. — the 44-year-old theater that gave August Wilson his first professional production — will expand to become the Penumbra Center for Racial Healing.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“It’s something that I’ve been dedicated to for a long time,” said Penumbra artistic director Sarah Bellamy on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s theater podcast.
Bellamy had been working on the organizational expansion for nearly five years before the murder of George Floyd sped up the timeline. “We felt the inequity and knew that.
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