Stephen Tyrone Williams joins the cast of the Off-Broadway revival of MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!; part three of the SignatureTheatre's focus on South African playwright Athol Fugard with direction by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Seven-time Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin will provide music for the production. MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! runs May 1 - June 10 at The Linney Theatre in the Pershing Square Theatre Complex on 42nd Street in NYC. Stephen Tyrone Williams stars as Thambi Mbikwana 1 Comment  Rehearsals begin for the World Premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's BURNING. Artistic Director of The New Group, Scott Elliott directs. BURNING: In emotionally charged intersecting stories, a contemporary black painter (Peter), who depicts shocking racial violence in his art but hides his race from the press, goes to Berlin for a gallery show. And in the mid-'80s an ambitious teenage boy, comes to New York to become an actor and is taken in by a gay couple as they are preparing the debut of a new Broadway play. -The New Group Stephen Tyrone Williams stars as Peter.
 Rehearsals begin for August Wilson's GEM OF THE OCEAN at Hartford Stage with Novella Nelson and Tony Award winner Roger Robinson. Associate artistic director Hana S. Sharif will direct GEM OF THE OCEAN, which will run May 12 - June 5. GEM OF THE OCEAN: In 1904, Citizen Barlow comes to the home of a former slave and 'soul cleanser,' Aunt Ester, who sets him off on a spiritual journey to find a city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Stephen Tyrone Williams stars as Citizen Barlow.  photo by Sandra Coudert Adam Rapp's HALLWAY TRILOGY running Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwright's Theatre extends until March 27th.
HALLWAY TRILOGY is a three-part presentation: ROSE takes place in 1953, on the day following the death of Eugene O'Neill, PARAFFIN is set on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout and NURSING is set in 2053 in a disease-free New York. Stephen Tyrone Williams is featured in PARAFFIN and NURSING.  Previews begin Tuesday, February 8th, for HALLWAY TRILOGY by Adam Rapp (HBO's In Treatment) at the Rattlestick Playwright's Theatre in NYC.
HALLWAY TRILOGY is a three-part presentation: ROSE takes place in 1953, on the day following the death of Eugene O'Neill, PARAFFIN is set on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout and NURSING is set in 2053 in a disease-free New York. Stephen Tyrone Williams is featured in PARAFFIN and NURSING.  Rehearsals begin for HALLWAY TRILOGY by Adam Rapp (HBO's In Treatment). HALLWAY TRILOGY is a three-part presentation: ROSE takes place in 1953, the day following the death of Eugene O'Neill. PARAFFIN is set on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout. NURSING is set in 2053 in a disease-free New York. Previews will begin Sunday, February 6th and HALLWAY TRILOGY will open Sunday, Feb. 20th. Stephen Tyrone Williams stars in PARAFFIN and NURSING.  Rehearsals begin for Vaclav Havel's AUDIENCE directed by Rafael Gallegos. AUDIENCE is a two person play that raises important questions about the role and freedom of artists in a political context. AUDIENCE runs in rep as part of The Drama League's 2010 DirectorFest at the Barrow Group Theatre December 9 - 12. Stephen Tyrone Williams stars as Vanek.  I was blessed to take part in the workshop and subsequent reading of Hana S. Sharif's SPROTT CYCLE. The SPROTT CYCLE is a trilogy of plays that chronicle Sharif's family history in 1880, 1964, and 2010 directed by Jeremy Cohen. The SPROTT CYCLE Is a part of Hartford Stage's new works festival called Brand:NEW. Read the PLAYBILL.com write-up | The NEXT One
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