CHICAGO — Chicago native Robert Townsend has done it all. He is all things writer, director, actor, comedian and producer, whose portfolio includes work with entertainment mainstays like Denzel ...
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The most performed opera in the world, Carmen, has been fascinating audiences since Day 1 in 1875. Nope. Carmen offended audiences in the beginning. Enter Tchaikovsky, the genius Russian composer, who ...
Hip hop and horror have always shared the same creative DNA: rebellion, rhythm, and raw truth. Both challenge power, twist expectations, and thrive in the shadows of the culture that shaped them. As ...
A new film featuring some Columbia classics is hitting the big screen this November. “Ambitions”, an independent film from Uno Entertainment, tells the story of a young artist caught between ambition, ...
Bizet’s opera Carmen is a powerful presence in our cultural landscape, with melodies such as that of the habanera “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” etched into the public’s consciousness. The gritty ...
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When Carmen Andrade, a conjoined twin, married her boyfriend, Daniel McCormack, in October 2024, she knew that people would have questions. Carmen, her husband Daniel and her conjoined twin sister, ...
In a chat with Lena Waithe, Robert Townsend told the story of how a young Beyoncé turned her first screen audition into a breakthrough moment. The year was 2001, and ...
Before she became a global superstar, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter was just 19 years old and nervously auditioning for her very first acting role. That role turned out to be the lead in MTV's 2001 film ...
(Photo by Rich Polk/WireImage), (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Robert Townsend saw something special in Beyoncé during her very first audition. “I didn’t know Beyoncé ...