A graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Theater, Smallwood is a two time Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival award winner for his original plays TALK and The Mind’s I. Michael Smallwood is an actor, playwright, and director. To purchase tickets, contact the Footlight Players box office at (843) 722.4487 or visit and reserve your tickets online. Tickets for the Late Night The Footlight series are $10 on Thursdays and $15 for Friday and Saturday shows. Performances of Topdog/Underdog are September 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and October 1 at 9 p.m. Local actor, director and playwright Michael Smallwood directs the Players’ production and the two member cast included Tremaine Rapp and Jerod Frazier. The production earned a number awards including Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor its most notable award, however, is it’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama making Suzan-Lori Parks the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. The original cast starred Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle (later replaced by Mos Def). Written by Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog, premiered on Broadway in April 2002 at The Ambassador Theatre. While his brother Booth-a petty thief-dreams of becoming the slick conman his brother used to be. Lincoln, an ex-card shark is attempting to stay on the straight and narrow by working a demoralizing, yet honest job, impersonating Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln and Booth, so named as a dark joke by their father, are haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con Three Card Monte. Set in a shabby apartment, off the mean streets of Brooklyn, Parks’ savage comedy uses wit, raw dialogue, and poetry to explore the volatile relationship between the two fiercely competitive siblings. The video also interviews store owner Craig Wright about his store and vinyl sales.CHARLESTON, SC – September 22 – Octo– As the second production of the LateNight The Footlight series, the Footlight Players are pleased to present the Holy City’s premier of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize winning play Topdog/Underdog the play is about two African-American brothers struggling to survive. Here’s one in July 2019 by Big Karma of a personal favorite, Sugaree.Īnd here’s a video tour of Innersleeve Records, posted in May 2018, which will show you more of what it has to offer. The store hosts a number of in-store performances, during the summer, including by the Memphis Crawl. The store counts Jimmy Fallon as one of its visitors, as reported in this article from the The East Hampton Patch ran an article titled Meet the Owner: Craig Wright of Innersleeve Records in August 2012 interviewing the owner of the store on its opening in the Square in Amagansett. Can anyone identify it for me?Īnd here are a couple of the store when it was on the Green in Amagansett. In the dim recesses of my mind, I believe there was another record store here (or on Main Street in Sag Harbor) long ago.
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