Unless you were actually around when blues doyenne Alberta Hunter was coming up from Memphis to Chicago in 1917 or storming Broadway in postwar New York, there's no way to say how faithfully Ann ...

Jazz and blues legend Alberta Hunter and her epic life story make fantastic raw material for a play. Playwright and director Marion J. Caffey spins a theatrical experience from it that only enhances ...

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Small-scale musical bio "Cookin' at the Cookery" frames the lusty talents of Tony winner Gretha Boston as the legendary Alberta Hunter and a frisky and versatile Janice Lorraine playing roles from the ...

When Alberta Hunter began singing the blues in the early 1900s, the rule "Don't shoot the piano player" apparently didn't apply. Hunter's piano player was shot and killed while they were on stage in ...

On a recent rainy Monday night rehearsal of Jewelle Gomez’s new play Leaving the Blues, two actors ran the lines of their first scene together. Michael Gene Sullivan (recently on stage in She Loves Me ...

There's no reason to sing the blues in Brentwood, because Alberta Hunter, channeled by Ann Duquesnay and Montego Glover, is there to sing them for you. Marion J. Caffey's play with music concerns the ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Marion J ...