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This here is something I have been waiting for and believe it or not, with all respect, it’s about time!
Playwright, author, filmmaker and screenwriter, LaDarrion Williams is sharing his magic with his much anticipated book, “Blood at the Root”. To have a book with a young black man as the protagonist in the world of magic and metaphysics is something I’m excited to read. I’m looking forward to getting to know how the character and his surroundings in this realm.
Blood at the Root: A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. Enroll in this fresh fantasy debut unlike anything you've seen before.
Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malik is finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an unexpected connection with his long-lost grandmother: a legendary conjurer with ties to a hidden magical university that Malik’s mother attended.
At Caiman University, Malik’s eyes are opened to a future he never could have envisioned for himself— one that includes the reappearance of his first love, Alexis. His search for answers about his heritage, his powers, and what really happened to his mother exposes the cracks in their magical community as it faces a reawakened evil dating back to the Haitian Revolution. Together with Alexis, Malik discovers a lot beneath the surface at Caiman: feuding covens and magical politics, forbidden knowledge and buried mysteries.
In a wholly unique saga of family, history and community, Malik must embrace his legacy to save what's left of his old family as well as his new one. Exploring the roots and secrets that connect us in an unforgettable contemporary setting, this heart-pounding fantasy series opener is a rich tapestry of atmosphere, intrigue, and emotion.
You can pre-order the book now. It debuts May 7th, 2024. Support indie book shops and you’ll get a signed copy.
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Cover Art | Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams
A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. Enroll in this fresh fantasy debut with the emotional power of Legendborn and the redefined ancestral magic of Lovecraft Country.
Ten years ago, Malik’s life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malik is finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an unexpected connection with his long-lost grandmother: a legendary conjurer with ties to a hidden magical university that Malik’s mother attended.
At Caiman University, Malik’s eyes are opened to a future he never could have envisioned for himself— one that includes the reappearance of his first love, Alexis. His search for answers about his heritage, his powers, and what really happened to his mother exposes the cracks in their magical community as it faces a reawakened evil dating back to the Haitian Revolution. Together with Alexis, Malik discovers a lot beneath the surface at Caiman: feuding covens and magical politics, forbidden knowledge and buried mysteries.
In a wholly unique saga of family, history and community, Malik must embrace his legacy to save what’s left of his old family as well as his new one. Exploring the roots and secrets that connect us in an unforgettable contemporary setting, this heart-pounding fantasy series opener is a rich tapestry of atmosphere, intrigue, and emotion.
Artwork by Hillary D. Wilson
Release date | May 7, 2024
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If hating ladarrion williams corny ass was a job I would literally be rolling in money you don’t even know. never knew what a REAL parasocial enemy was until him like this the most attention I ever paid to someone I dislike and watching him get press and preorders in real time makes my blood boil but knowing ppl jumped him on Twitter so bad he stopped putting “no racism no police brutality” in his 5 daily copy/pasted book description videos after that is soooooo funny like that’s what it took for you to stop marketing your shit like that and even mention any part of the plot besides it being harry potter for negroes
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We are soooooo proud of LaDarrion!!!
We only have TWELVE more signed preorders of Blood At The Root by LaDarrion Williams releasing this Tuesday, May 7th. Eeck...so exciting!!!!
Please learn more at https://sistahscifi.com/products/blood-at-the-root.
PRAISE: “A buzzy debut about the adventures of a runaway teen who finds himself at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical, Blood at the Root is a story of community and legacy that’s clearly aiming to do something very different in this genre space.” — @PasteMagazine
“This story offers a fresh take on familiar YA fantasy tropes, like a secret magical school and a long-lost grandmother.” —@BuzzFeed
“Exuberant contemporary fantasy series opener….a serpentine, high-intensity celebration of Black culture, history, and power.” — #PublishersWeekly @pwpics
@itsladarrion #BloodAtTheRoot #SistahScifi #LaDarrionWilliams
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‘Boulevard of Bold Dreams’ Shines a Light on Hattie McDaniel and Her 1940 Oscar
Samantha Jane Williams, Michelle Fenelon, and Stewart Evan Smith in ‘Boulevard of Bold Dreams’ at GBSC. Photos by Nile Scott Studios
By Shelley A. Sackett
Playwright LaDarrion Williams has cherry-picked a dramatic moment in history to explore in his well-crafted ‘Boulevard of Bold Dreams.’ The date is February 29, 1940, the night of the Academy Awards. The setting is Los Angeles’ Ambassador…
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2023 Blue Ink Award Winner Announced
by Blues | Feb 10, 2023 | Blue Ink Playwriting Award, News
Congratulations to Kristoffer Diaz, winner of the 2023 Blue Ink Award for Things With Friends.
As part of the award, Diaz receives a $2,500 cash prize, a staged reading at American Blues Theater, and the opportunity to further develop his script with our artists.
Kristoffer Diaz notes, “It’s truly an honor to receive this year’s Blue Ink Award. Wendy Whiteside and American Blues have been an important part of my career dating back to before I even really had a career to speak of. It’s fantastic to come full circle. Even though my life and work are based on the east coast these days, I’m proud to consider myself a Chicago playwright.”
“We are thrilled to announce Kristoffer Diaz as the 2023 Blue Ink Award winner,” notes Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside. “Diaz’s voice resonates through every page. He has the ability to surprise through character descriptions and actions, word choice, punctuation, and reveals details only as needed.”
About Things With Friends
Manhattan. Burt and Adele are hosting a dinner party. Steak is on the stove. The George Washington Bridge has collapsed into the Hudson. Kristoffer Diaz has written a play about it. I’ve already said too much.
About Kristoffer Diaz
KRISTOFFER DIAZ is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and educator. His play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Other full-length titles include Welcome to Arroyo’s, Reggie Hoops, Hercules, and The Unfortunates. His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed at The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, ACT, Center Theatre Group, The Goodman, Second Stage, Victory Gardens, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among many others. Awards include the Guggenheim, Jerome, Van Lier, NYFA, and Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowships; New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award; Lucille Lortel, Equity Jeff, and OBIE Awards; and the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant, among others. As a screenwriter, Kristoffer has developed original television pilots for HBO and FX, written for the first season of Netflix’s GLOW, and adapted the musical Rent for FOX. Kristoffer teaches playwriting at New York University. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a member of its Board of Directors, and the current secretary of the Dramatists Guild Council.
Other 2023 Blue Ink winners
2023 Featured Finalists: Audrey Cefaly (Trouble), Victor Lesniewski (Cold Spring), Gloria Majule (Uhuru).
2023 Finalists: Amanda L. Andrei (Mama, I wish I were silver), Kimberly Dixon-Mays (When Given a Choice, Bleed), Emma Gibson (LUMIN), Keiko Green (Hells Canyon), Monet Hurst-Mendoza (Blind Crest), Deepak Kumar (House of India), Matthew Libby (Sisters), Tlaloc Rivas (DIVISIDERO), Nia Akilah Robinson (The Great Privation: How to flip ten cents into a dollar), Elaine Romero (Hoverland), Marcus Scott (There Goes The Neighborhood), SEVAN (You, The Fire, and Me), Liba Vaynberg (The Matriarchs), LaDarrion Williams (Bridging the Gap).
2023 Semi-Finalists: Jaisey Bates (Real Time remix), Cris Eli Blak (Brown Bodies on a Blue Earth), Brendan Bourque-Sheil and Madison Smith (Dogrose Patrol), Laura Maria Censabella (Beyond Words), Aaron Coleman (Tell Me I’m Gorgeous at the End of the World: The Last Gay Play), Nelson Diaz-Marcano (When the Earth Moves, We Dance), Ramón Esquivel (¡O Cascadia!), Gina Femia (lisa; a fantasia), Alyssa Haddad-Chin (Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play), Darrel Alejandro Holnes (Franklin Ave), Jessica Kahkoska (In Her Bones), M.J. Kang (The Battle of Saratoga), Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj (stop killing black people), Zizi Majid (They Came In The Night), Eric Marlin (and come apart), Josie Nericcio (619 Hendricks), Peter Pasco (Yoli, Alfredo, y la vida), Jason Gray Platt (Homeowners), Audley Puglisi (The Misplaced Saints), Andre R. Hogan II (The Hot Wing Special), Iraisa Ann Reilly (Saturday Mourning Cartoons), Lia Romeo (Greek Tragedy), Phillip Christian Smith (Riverside Drive), Jonathan Spector (Best Available), Gina Stevensen (Breakfalls), Steven Strafford (The Model Congressman), Ellis Stump (Once on Rumspringa), Caridad Svich (Joan of the Dockyards), James Anthony Tyler (Into the Side of a Hill), Hope Villanueva (Brackish), Mary Weems (Crack the Door for Some Air), Deborah Yarchun (Great White).
About the Blue Ink Award for playwriting
The nationally-renowned Blue Ink Award was created in 2010 to support new work. Since inception, we’ve named 13 Award winners, 129 finalists, and 203 semi-finalists. Nearly $10,000 in cash and prizes will be distributed to playwrights in 2023.
Each year American Blues Theater accepts worldwide submissions of original, unpublished full-length plays. The winning play will be selected by Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside and the theater’s Ensemble. The 2023 winning playwright receives a monetary prize of $2,500. Cash prizes are awarded to finalists and semi-finalists too. All proceeds of the administrative fee are distributed for playwrights’ cash prizes.
Submissions for the 2024 Blue Ink Award open August 1, 2023. All submissions must be received by American Blues Theater by August 31, 2023 at 11:59pm. Playwrights may only submit one (1) manuscript each year for consideration.
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Diahann Carroll in House of Flowers at the age of 19
Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, “Julia” in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in the Bronx, she made her Broadway debut way back in 1954, at the age of 19, in Truman Capote and Harold Arlen’s “House of Flowers,” the only debutante in an illustrious company led by Pearl Bailey and Alvin Ailey. The famous Harlem photographer Carl Van Vechten captured her here in color.
Carroll was the first black woman to win the Tony Award for Best Actress for a musical, for “No Strings” in 1962.She returned to Broadway in 1982 to portray Doctor Martha Livingstone in “Agnes of God”
Diahann Carroll in No Strings with Richard Kiley
Diahann Carroll in Agnes of God with Geraldine Page
Her experiences on Broadway were in sharp contrast to her experience on television. As a black female” surrounded by white supremacists and chauvinists, she once said, “I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation”
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”, featuring an all-star cast including DeNiro and Pacino and Cannavale, will be presented at Broadway’s beautiful Belasco Theater from November 1 to December 1. It is not a play, but a film — the first movie screening in the theater’s 112-year-old history. The film, about a mob hitman recalling his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa, will then be shown on Netflix. The director had hoped to put the film in movie houses, but major movie chains balked at playing host to a Netflix film.
Though Netflix will be installing equipment to allow for state of the art screening, it will maintain the normal schedule for productions at the Belasco — eight screenings a week, including Mondays dark and matinees on the weekend.
The Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews
Preview: Linda Vista on Broadway
Ian Barford realizes that some audience members may view the 50-year-old divorcé he portrays in Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista as “despicable, a misanthrope, a narcissist and probably a nihilist.” He feels that way about him too. But the actor also sees his character, Dick Wheeler, as “incredibly articulate, and hilarious,” even “noble.”
“He has so many dimensions and contradictions: He’s lovable and he’s hateable,” Barford says. “I’m scared many people will love to hate him — and I’m sure that many people will hate to love him.”
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Conservatives don’t all think alike; some of them hate Trump; some don’t see Liberals as evil (some do.) Some are deeply weird.
It is a sure sign of the political divisiveness in America that these observations may well seem like revelations to some theatergoers attending Will Arbury’s new play at Playwrights Horizons. “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” allows us to eavesdrop on what feel like astute and authentic conversations at a gathering of former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming. Terrifically acted and intellectually stimulating, “Heroes” is also eerie, at times confusing, too long and too dark. And I mean dark literally; it takes place during nighttime in the dimly lit backyard of Justin’s house.
Chalk
“Chalk,” a 40-minute comedy in which silent comic Alex Curtis creates an entire world for the audience using little more than a piece of chalk, is exactly the sort of show I always hope for at the Fringe Festival — inventive, entertaining, and short.
Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec
“Moulin Rouge” on Broadway has several things in common with Bated Breath Theater Company’s low-budget show about the same people, place and period, especially in my reaction to them both. As with “Moulin Rouge,” I found “Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec” thrilling from the moment I entered the West Houston bar where it takes place…until a few minutes after it began. That’s because the environment on the second floor lounge of the Madame X bar is spot-on in look and feel….a show about the life and times of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec that is at best inventive, at worst amateurish, and overall a mishmash.
The Week in New York Theater News
Ed Harris
Nina Grollman
Nick Robinson
Russell Harvard
Kyle Scatliffe
Taylor Trensch
M Emmet Walsh
Year 2 of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” which begins Nov 5, features some intriguing replacement casting:
Ed Harris as Atticus Finch, Nick Robinson as Jem Finch,
Eliza Scanlen as Mayella Ewell, Kyle Scatliffe as Tom Robinson,
LisaGay Hamilton as Calpurnia, Nina Grollman as Scout Finch,
Taylor Trensch as Dill Harris, Manoel Felciano as Horace Gilmer,
Russell Harvard as Link Deas and Boo Radley,
M. Emmet Walsh as Judge Taylor
The 2019 New York International Fringe Festival: What happened?!
The short answer is: They ran out of money.
Lauren Gunderson
The Half-Life of Marie Curie, starring Kate Mulgrew of Orange Is the New Black, will open at Minetta Lane Theater November 19, produced by Audible. It is written by Lauren Gunderson, who is yet again this year the most produced playwright in America – but has never been produced on Broadway.
Is America’s Favorite Playwright Too Much for New York?
“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” the show will now be known as “MJ.” It’s currently in a multi-week development phase in New York City and is scheduled to hit Broadway in the summer of 2020.
Seventy-nine artist have been granted MacDowell Fellowships, which enable them to attend fall residencies. These include composer Jeanine Tesori and theater artists: Sarah DeLappe, Lisa Dring, David Mallamud, Stevie Nemazee, Terry O’Reilly, LaDarrion Williams, Gary Winter, and Zack Zadek.
What is immersive theater? The six elements that define it at its best
Foundry Theatre to Close After 25 Years
Uta Hagen centennial
The history of modern celebrity
Study shows viewers want more representation for those with disabilities
Spielberg: “We filmed West Side Story all over New York, from Flatbush to Fort Tryon Park” — and finished at Steiner_Studios
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“The city lent us its beauty and its energy….” Movie’s coming out Dec 18,2020.
Martin Scorsese’s film “The Irishman” will be screened at the Belasco Theater on Broadway from Nov. 1 through Dec. 1
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Rip Taylor, 88, mostly known as a TV game show panelist.
But he also starred in a Broadway show in 1981, Sugar Babies. also wrote and performed an autobiographical one-man play called “It Ain’t All Confetti.”
#Stageworthy News of the Week: Diahann Carroll (1935-2019) Broadway Groundbreaker. DeNiro, Pacino, Cannavale in Broadway’s Belasco….for Netflix. Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, "Julia" in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too.
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Embark on a magical journey with this fresh fantasy debut! Ten years ago, Malik’s life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye.
Malik discovers a family he never knew existed and a community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. Join him on a quest for answers about his heritage, powers, and his mother’s mysterious past. Uncover feuding covens, magical politics, and buried mysteries at Caiman University. Will Malik embrace his legacy to save both his old and new family?
PS: 🤔Are we the only ones seeing a striking resemblance between Malik Baron on the cover and a young LaDarrion Williams? Magic at play or just an enchanting coincidence? Dive into the fantasy debut and decide for yourself!
If you have not already read Blood at the Root by @itsladarrion (book published by @penguinrandomhouse), you can Preorder a SIGNED copy from our @Shopify, @Instagram, @Facebook, @TikTok, @Twitter, @Librofm and @Pinterest stores. Link in bio: @SistahScifi. Better yet, check it out from your local #library!!
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Embark on a magical journey with this fresh fantasy debut! Ten years ago, Malik’s life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye.
Malik discovers a family he never knew existed and a community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. Join him on a quest for answers about his heritage, powers, and his mother’s mysterious past. Uncover feuding covens, magical politics, and buried mysteries at Caiman University. Will Malik embrace his legacy to save both his old and new family?
PS: 🤔Are we the only ones seeing a striking resemblance between Malik Baron on the cover and a young LaDarrion Williams? Magic at play or just an enchanting coincidence? Dive into the fantasy debut and decide for yourself!
If you have not already read Blood at the Root by @itsladarrion (book published by @penguinrandomhouse), you can Preorder a SIGNED copy from our @Shopify, @Instagram, @Facebook, @TikTok, @Twitter, @Librofm and @Pinterest stores. Link in bio: @SistahScifi. Better yet, check it out from your local #library!!
#sistahscifi #BloodattherootNovel #PenguinRandomHouse #YAfantasy #BloodattheRoot #LaDarrionWilliams #LabyrinthRoad # #newrelease
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