Every year, women in a movement that morphed out of American Playwright Eve Ensler’s award winning play, The Vagina Monologues, command center stage in venues across the globe to provoke serious thought about violence against women and to raise money to stop it.
Set in Ethiopia and Germany, Award-Winning Movie Explores Identity and Internal Struggles
Action. Romance. Historical facts. Humor. "Teza" has it all. The acclaimed independent film by Ethiopian-born Haile Gerima, a film professor at Howard University, has been packing the house at the Avalon Theater in Northwest Washington.
Eighteen dancers, some playing instruments or clapping, circle a young woman who squats while a young man gracefully swings his left leg over her head. Chanting in Portuguese, the dancers celebrate Brazilian and African culture through Capoeira.
Tyler Perry's latest stage production, "Laugh to Keep From Crying," is another testament to his skills as a writer and his ability to sew comedy, gospel and morals to produce a quilt of laughter with a Godly theme.