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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Reflection on Black Nativity, and the power of faith and forgiveness in today’s world by Jeffrey E. Banks

As a Person of Faith, I have become more disenchanted with how Christmas is celebrated as I’ve gotten older. The commercialization of the holiday promotes materialism over caring about one…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AM
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Review: What to Send Up When It Goes Down, coming soon to Woolly Mammoth by Jeffrey E. Banks

Aleasha Harris, author of What to Send Up When It Goes Down wrote: “The idea was to hold people accountable, be confrontational, let it be messy, let it be angry, and let it tread as absur…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM
Thursday, October 17, 2019

My thoughts on seeing Thoughts of a Colored Man by Jeffrey E. Banks

Thoughts of a Colored Man by young poet/playwright Keenan Scott II masterfully tells nearly every part of the experience of being a Black Male in America today. The tagline “One Theme: Sev…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PM
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Dat’s Love. We take you to the first Spit Dat spoken word night at Woolly Mammoth by Jeffrey E. Banks

Drew Anderson (poetically known as “Droopy, The Brokeballer”), one half of the #DynamicDuo that is responsible for producing the weekly Thursday open mic Spit Dat since 2002, describes t…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PM