Penumbra Theatre produced Ifa Bayeza’s award winning production, "The Ballad of Emmett Till." Penumbra Artistic Director, Sarah Bellamy, says the theatre is now proud to introduce the world premiere ...

It was 62 years ago this summer that Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi — an appalling racial crime that helped ignite the civil rights movement. This week, Ion Theatre revisits his story with ...

From the moment he came into the world “feet first” as the result of a breech birth, Emmett Till wanted to stand up, his mother recalls early in Ifa Bayeza’s powerful play. How the African-American ...

Staged readings of “The Rescue of John Price” by playwright Ifa Bayeza will take place June 23-25 at Oberlin College’s Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, 67 N. Main St. The play is set in 1858 at the ...

Ifa Bayeza; dir: Talvin Wilks. A small, segregated town is about to be turned upside down as fate brings a young boy from Chicago to a candy counter in Money, Mississippi. The second play in Ifa ...

In Money, Mississippi 55 years ago, a 14-year-old African American boy is said to have whistled at a white woman. In the South, that action carried severe consequences. Assailants beat the young man, ...

Coming to TECO Theatre on Sunday, March 5 at 2:30 pm is The Straz Center's third annual BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) Play-Reading Series. Featured award-winning playwrights are ...

In her accomplished but not yet fully focused new work, "The Ballad of Emmett Till," playwright Ifa Bayeza is not at all shy about making a direct comparison between her title character, the Chicago ...

CHICAGO — More than three decades ago, Ifa Bayeza came up with the idea that her sister, a poet, should create a work for the stage. “I went on a two-year effort to convince her to release her writing ...

Sisters and playwrights Ntozake Shange (for colored girls who have considered suicide) and Ifa Bayeza (the play The Ballad of Emmett Till) have composed a sweeping African-American saga animating 200 ...

The set is small and intimate, so no matter where you sit for Mosaic Theater Company’s production of The Till Trilogy — a series of three plays being performed concurrently as a singular work for the ...

Playwright Ifa Bayeza has been chosen for the Shadows-on-the-Teche's project, "Bunk Johnson at the Shadows: Historic Interpretation through Dramatic Performance." The one-act dramatic work will focus ...