Posted by MikeWileyProductions in News on March 10, 2025
Talking with the playwright about “Changing Same,” his one-man play about Booker T. Spicely, a Black WWII soldier murdered by a Durham bus driver in 1944 in a blatant act […]
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By Leoneda Inge, Rachel McCarthy Published November 7, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST In 1944, a Black Army private was shot and killed in Durham, NC by a white bus driver. […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in News on March 10, 2025
By Sarah Rogers on March 14, 2022 CONTACT: Sarah Rogers (919) 660-3035 sarah.rogers@duke.edu DURHAM, N.C. — Abraham Galloway was a freedom fighter. Born near Wilmington, N.C. in 1837, he […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in News on March 10, 2025
Story by Corbie Hill May 21, 2023 A jet-lagged Charlie Thompson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gazed out over the Reflecting Pool. Days earlier he had […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in News on January 17, 2017
BY TIM FUNK tfunk@charlotteobserver.com The accent was on both the past and the future Monday when about 1,300 people gathered at the Charlotte Convention Center for the McCrorey YMCA’s […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in Uncategorized on October 11, 2016
The cast of “The Parchman Hour” at the Guthrie Theater. (Photo by Dan Norman) By DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA / SPECIAL TO THE PIONEER PRESS October 10, 2016 at 4:04 pm […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in Uncategorized on October 10, 2016
PHOTOS BY DAN NORMAN The cast of the Guthrie Theater’s The Parchman Hour, written by Mike Wiley and directed by Patricia McGregor. Scenic design by Clint Ramos, costume design by […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in Uncategorized on October 8, 2016
‘We were immortal’: Another era when black lives mattered gives birth to Guthrie’s ‘Parchman Hour’ The Guthrie’s “Parchman Hour” hopes to inspire a new generation with songs and tales of […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in News on September 22, 2016
Previews begin Saturday, October 1; Opening on Friday, October 7; Playing through Sunday, November 6, 2016 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie Theater Minneapolis/St. Paul—The Guthrie Theater […]
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Posted by MikeWileyProductions in Uncategorized on February 16, 2012
“Dar He” tells the story of Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955. It was filmed entirely in North Carolina. See review here
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