Articles Tagged With: Dominique Morisseau

The National Touring Company of Ain't Too Proud. 📸Emilio Madrid

Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations at The Hippodrome

Reviews May 4, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Music is the universal language that brings us all together. And you can feel the music rolling all through Charm City as The First National Tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations rolls on up to Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre for a one-week stop. Featuring the music & lyrics of The Legendary Motown Catalog with book by Dominique Morisseau, this show goes above and beyond the battle-cry of your ‘standard jukebox musical.’ This is the true,

Ain’t Too Proud To Tell The Truth: An Interview with Elijah Ahmad Lewis on Playing David Ruffin

Interviews May 3, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Get ready! Cause he’s on his way! Get ready! Cause here he comes! And here he comes— Elijah Ahmad Lewis— in the role of David Ruffin currently on The National Tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we were given an opportunity to have a phone conversation with the multi-award-winning singer/songwriter and Broadway performer to discuss his experience with The Temptations musical.

Detroit ’67 at The Strand Theatre

Reviews November 9, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

A little scratch gives you character, unless you’re a 45-vinyl, in which case it just causes you to skip a lot. The Strand Theatre has a whole lot of character and more importantly they have the message. They have the message of love with their production of Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ’67, directed by Erin Riley. Powerful, evocative, visceral— this stunning drama set in the heart of the “colored district in downtown Detroit in the midst of the race riots” is poignant and disturbing in its relevance to the modern day.

Ain’t Too Proud at The Kennedy Center

Reviews June 30, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

You can achieve many successes in the music industry. You can climb to the top, you can enjoy the view from the top once you get there, but to be the top? There’s only group in the history of rhythm & blues that has been touted continually, through to this very moment, as the best group in the entire history of rhythm & blues: The Temptations didn’t climb to the top they became the top.