Articles Tagged With: Katori Hall

The Hot Wing King at Baltimore Center Stage

Reviews April 15, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Lessons can be blessings. Mistakes can be good. Finding a way to learn the lessons and take the ‘Beyoncé’ approach to making lemonade when life won’t stop raining fiery hot lemons down on your head is exactly what the Pulitzer Prize-Winning play The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall is serving up in the Pearlstone Theatre of Baltimore Center Stage. It’s a limited engagement, playing through the end of the month of April but it’s a powerhouse piece that’s equal parts funny and heartfelt,

Zurin Villanueva performing Higher as ‘Tina Turner’ and the cast of the North American touring production of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. 📸 Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade

Tina at The Hippodrome

Reviews November 16, 2022 Mark Briner

Tina Turner is arguably the most inspirational story in the history of rock and roll. Small town country girl with a big voice becomes part of a rock and roll institution. But success seemed stacked against her between an emotionally abusive mother and the most physically abusive husband this side of OJ Simpson, as she flees everything at the height of her career to start over with nothing, making perhaps the grandest comeback in rock and roll history.

Hoodoo Love at Spotlighters Theatre

Reviews September 30, 2022 Joshua Bermont

Set in Memphis during the Great Depression, Hoodoo Love – written by Katori Hall, directed by Rain Pryor, and currently playing at the Spotlighters Theatre – exists at the seamy and sultry crossroads where superstition, the blues, and matters of the heart converge… the sort of crossroads where Tommy Johnson, referenced in this piece (along with a great many other blues legends), might well have stood at midnight and sold his soul for his music.