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Blair Underwood

  • Theater

    April 25, 2012

    A Desegregated 'Streetcar'

    The Tennessee Williams classic gets a multiethnic Broadway staging

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: Bail is Busted

    This week in the Voice, out today: Nick Pinto busts bail and explains how jail really works, writing about OWS and incarceration: "As the Occupy Wall Street movement has introduced a new young generation of mostly white, mostly middle-class activists to civil disobedience, arrest, jail, and the inne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    Streetcar Of Color Opens: My Review

    The fact that the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' culture-clash classic A Streetcar Named Desire has a multicultural cast turns out to be a non issue. As long as the poetry is served, it doesn't matter what color the actors are, especially if they're game for the challenge. And in this ... More >>

  • Film

    April 11, 2012

    Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

    The fact that the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' culture-clash classic A Streetcar Named Desire has a multicultural cast turns out to be a non issue. As long as the poetry is served, it doesn't matter what color the actors are, especially if they're game for the challenge. And in this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Stanley Kowalski Has Dropped The "Kowalski"

    As you know, Tennessee Williams' culture-clash classic A Streecar Named Desire is coming to Broadway any moment now, featuring a cast of color. Well, at a Drama Desk panel discussion at Sardi's the other day, Blair Underwood--who's playing the old Brando role, the brutish Stanley Kowalski--said he' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    A Streetcar Named Multicultural Is Coming

    A black Stanley Kowalski? Well, why not? We had a black Maggie the Cat just a few years ago. And at a meet-and-greet for the Streetcar Named Desire of color (with the white folks living next door) coming to Broadway, director Emily Mann gave us the reasons. "I knew Tennessee Williams and loved hi ... More >>

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    Camu Tao Gets His Due

    The departed rapper's King of Hearts is hard to hear and harder to ignore

  • Film

    January 24, 2006

    Love Thinks: Intelligent Rom-Com a Deft Look at Race in L.A.

    The departed rapper's King of Hearts is hard to hear and harder to ignore

  • Film

    July 30, 2002

    Crime Scenes

    The departed rapper's King of Hearts is hard to hear and harder to ignore

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