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Brownbox in the Times

Shunpike Partner Artist Brownbox Theatre is noted in this Seattle Times piece on black theater in Seattle:

But "Hamlet X," Brown's imaginative staging of Shakespeare's tragedy, and the quirky Adriano Shaplin play "Wreck the Airline Barrier" drew small but enthused audiences, decent reviews and grants from private and civic funders.

Brown says what he needs now is "more infrastructure" to promote his shows and sell tickets. And a more targeted game plan.

Indeed, Brownbox's future seems promising but in flux. In 2007, Brown hopes to produce an annual "Negro Passion Play" with a "black Christ, set in the South during the Civil Rights era." Next year he also wants to revive "Hamlet X" and "Black to My Roots," an ebullient riff on black women and their hair challenges which has toured locally and to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And next summer, he aims to concoct a classical mini-fest, "Shakespeare In the Park'N Lot."

Read the whole thing.