There are 12 article(s) tagged Ekundayo Bandele:

• February 2025

  • Hattiloo founder returns to the stage

    Bertram Williams Jr. previously played the lead in Hattiloo’s latest play, which opened Friday, Jan. 17. 

    By Alys Drake February 05, 2025

• January 2025

  • ‘P-Valley’ star is lead of ‘Black Odyssey’ at Hattiloo

    Homecoming is the theme running through Bertram Williams Jr.’s life at the moment.

    By Alys Drake January 24, 2025

  • Hattiloo’s new season includes a Tony-winning play

    Among the plays are “Dreamgirls,” “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” “Jubilee” and “Madagascar,” a musical based on the DreamWorks animated film about a group of animals at New York’s Central Park Zoo.

    By Elle Perry January 20, 2025

• August 2023

  • ‘Responsibility to give back’ drives Gibson’s mayoral run

    Memphis mayoral candidate J.W. Gibson says that as a “businessman” he would bring accountability to the city’s highest office, and that he believes he has “a responsibility to take Memphis to a different level.”

    By Don Wade August 30, 2023

• July 2022

  • Hattiloo to open theater school for youth, seniors and people with disabilities

    In partnership with the Community Redevelopment Agency, Hattiloo will renovate a church building with a storied Civil War-era history. 

    By Daja E. Henry July 28, 2022

• October 2021

  • TEDxMemphis returns to in-person event

    This year’s theme for the TED event, independently organized by New Memphis, is “Ctrl+Alt+Del.” In the same way the keyboard function resets a computer so it can start fresh, speakers will introduce ideas that will help attendees reset thinking.

    By Julia Baker October 15, 2021

• January 2021

  • Local leaders get parts in ‘Say It Loud’ at Hattiloo Theatre

    In a free, virtual series, actors will perform speeches by Booker T. Washington, Shirley Chisholm, Dick Gregory and John Lewis. They’ll be introduced by Shelby County Commission members present and past and a Rhodes College professor, among others. 

    By Peggy Burch January 18, 2021

• December 2020

  • Hattiloo gives COVID frontline workers a voice

    The theater company based in Overton Square worked with Regional One to create “From the Frontlines of COVID-19,” a series that gives a virtual stage to some of the health care providers who are getting us through a crisis.

    By Peggy Burch December 29, 2020

• August 2020

  • Stages are dark, but performance theaters are plotting their returns

    Live theater companies in Memphis endured a long exercise in improv in the second half of the 2019-20 theater season. And 2020-21 is shaping up as more of the same.

    By Peggy Burch August 27, 2020

• January 2020

  • Black art must be more than a niche on Memphis’ cultural landscape

    For the new decade, Hattiloo Theatre is renewing its vow to amplify the voice of the African American community within the arts community, and doubling down on that effort by investing more in developing artists.

    By Ekundayo Bandele January 02, 2020

• March 2019

  • Memphis bicentennial looks toward ‘new era’

    Several new events around the city into November offer those outside Memphis a glimpse of the city's creative and innovative future as a welcome mat to the Memphis experience, including its struggles.

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2019

• January 2019

  • Hattiloo series commemorates 400 years of African-American history

    The first documented Africans arrived in the American colonies in 1619. A Hattiloo event series is commemorating 400 years of African-American history. 

    By Elle Perry January 28, 2019