All Kinds of Blackness with Lydia Diamond

Gettin’ Comfortable With Discomfort

In this episode, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview director and playwright Robert O’Hara about his approach to his craft, his experience as a Black artist in the theatre industry, and how he leans into discomfort.

All Kinds of Blackness with Lydia Diamond

In this episode, Jordan and Leticia interview Lydia Diamond and learn about her career as a playwright and her hopes for expanding Black theatre.

Zora Neale Hurston, (Harlem) Renaissance Woman

Leticia and Jordan delve into Zora Neale Hurston as a theatre artist and consider her plays, performances, and theories of dramaturgy and theatremaking.

Gettin’ Baptized in the Dirt with Candrice Jones’s FLEX

In this episode, hosts Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley reflect on their very positive feelings for Obsidian Theatre and Crow’s Theatre’s production of FLEX, as well as Candrice Jones’s gorgeous and nuanced depictions of Black girlhood and friendship.

Black Queer “Mess” and A Strange Loop

In today’s episode, Leticia and Jordan discuss the Canadian premiere of A Strange Loop—a co-production between The Musical Stage Company, Soulpepper Theatre, Crow’s Theatre, and TO Live. They re-appraise the musical’s impact in today’s sociopolitical climate.