Episode 6: Epilogue

In this episode we gather reflections from artists and scholars on Childress’s enduring legacy.

Guests: Soyica Colbert, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, friends of CLASSIX

pisode 5: Directing Childress

A group of directors (and uber-Childress fans!) gather to chat about their experiences directing her works..

Moderated by Arminda Thomas

Guests: Jade King Carroll, Dominique Rider, Awoye Timpo, Nicole Watson

Episode 4: Making Wedding Band

This week we take a deep dive into the 2022 production of Childress’s Wedding Band at Theatre for a New Audience, marking the first professional production of the play in New York since 1972. Members of the cast and creative team join Dominique for a conversation about bringing this masterpiece to life.

Guests: Jason Ardizzone-West, Brittany Bradford, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo, Elizabeth Van Dyke

Dominique speaks with Professor Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, and numerous other works.

Guest: Mary Helen Washington

This week Dominique and Arminda are joined by legendary lighting designer and historian Kathy A. Perkins about her collaboration with Alice Childress and how she came to edit the anthology of Childress’s plays.

Guest: Kathy A. Perkins

Host Dominique Rider connects with dramaturg and CLASSIX team member Arminda Thomas to talk through the biography and legacy of Alice Childress.

Guest: Arminda Thomas

Playwright, performer, novelist, and cultural critic, Alice Childress looms as an incredibly important but often forgotten figure within the history of our American theater. The breadth of her writing intersects with major movements of Black artistic and political thought, and yet, until recently her work has been relegated to the shadows. For Act 2 of (re)clamation, CLASSIX shines a light on the life, work and legacy of Alice Childress.

A glimpse into the resources and research that shaped Act 1.

In this episode, the full CLASSIX team gets together for a deep-dive exploration into the 1903 Broadway musical In Dahomey.

Featuring: Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo

Featuring the voices of: Steven Anthony Jones, Kareem Lucas

What falls apart, what shifts, and what remains? A conversation about the legacy of the minstrelsy era.

Hosted by Brittany Bradford

Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience

Guests include: Michael Dinwiddie, Rhiannon Giddens and Ayanna Thompson

Featuring: Galen Kane, Korey Jackson, Motell Foster, Steven Anthony Jones, Toussaint JeanLouis