We also take a trip down memory lane and commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Spike Lee’s School Daze. Brittany Inge and Amari Cheatom discuss their sexy new musical production that has everyone talking.Ĭlosing out the show is my exclusive interview with TV and film star Cassi Davis. The Spelman College alumnus chats about her return to primetime as “Ella” in OWN’s new series The Paynes. Trained as a historian before becoming a theatre maker, Smith combines the historical and the performative in his one-man shows like Obie Award-winning A Huey P. UPFRONT also catches up with the cast of Horizon Theatre Company’s The Ballad of Klook and Vinette. Writer, director and actor Smith is best known for his biographically and historically- infused plays. He has gone about as far as a director can go on pure style. Smith open up about their characters that helped shape the iconic Civil Rights Movement. Isaiah Washington, Loretta Devine and Roger G.

I continue our celebration of Black History Month with interviews from the cast of TV One’s original movie Behind the Movement. The Berkeley-born actor performs a solo show about the father of Anne Frank and the human capacity for evil. Lee told him to come up with some ideas and he’d try to work him into the film, so Guenveur Smith created the character of Smiley, a young man with a stutter who sells pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. This morning edition of UPFRONT was packed with stars from beginning to end Roger Guenveur Smith was not initially cast in the film, but every day during production he’d ask Lee to find a place for him in the story. Smith directed the Bessie Award-winning Radio Mambo: Culture Clash Invades Miami, the West Coast Premiere of Katori Halls The Mountaintop, and most.

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