ALL ARTS, the Emmy-winning streaming platform and TV channel, will present the premiere of Dangerous Acts, a House Seats special, March 21 at 9 PM ET on ALL ARTS TV,鈥� the ,鈥痑苍诲
Produced by New York鈥檚 Lucille Lortel Theatre in partnership with the Howard University Department of Theatre Arts, the one-hour program is directed by Tony winner and Dean of Howard University鈥檚 Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts Phylicia Rashad.
Dangerous Acts explores the work of two prolific African American playwrights, Mary P. Burrill and Willis Richardson, through a staged reading of Burrill鈥檚 Aftermath and Richardson鈥檚 The Deacon鈥檚 Awakening, performed by Howard University students under the direction of Rashad. The program will also feature a series of critical reflections on the enduring legacy of Burrill and Richardson.
鈥淲e are delighted to partner with the Lucille Lortel Theatre鈥痑nd Howard University鈥痶o鈥痗elebrate the long lineage of Black鈥痶heatre makers鈥痺ith the next generation of actors and audiences through鈥痶he鈥痸isionary鈥痚arly 20th-century work of Mary P.鈥疊urrill and Willis Richardson,鈥� says ALL ARTS Senior Artistic Director James King. 鈥淒ean Rashad offers a renewed understanding of the historic and contemporary significance of these singular playwrights and their work for audiences today.鈥�
鈥淲ith these long-neglected works by Mary P. Burrill and Willis Richardson, we are thrilled to inaugurate an exciting and fruitful partnership with Howard University and ALL ARTS. Most of all, we are overjoyed to collaborate with the gifted students and brilliant faculty at Howard. With this program, the Lucille Lortel Theatre strives to uplift powerful Black voices that have inspired generations of artists, while fostering the education of the next wave of Black theatre makers,鈥� adds George Forbes, executive director of the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Rashad continues, 鈥淭his was a labor of love from start to finish鈥攅xquisite and fulfilling; truly, this represents a full circle moment in time for me.鈥�
The associate producers for House Seats: Dangerous Acts are MECCA Filmworks鈥痑nd T.L. Benton.
