Smith describes the production as “more prayer than performance” - an attempt to find the grace notes as he orbits the legacy of a searching, flawed man who unexpectedly became a focal point for social justice issues that remain timely. Within weeks, Smith was onstage at Los Angeles’ Bootleg Theatre, his artistic home, testing out the seeds of what would become “Rodney King.” The one-hour solo show, which kicks off Penumbra Theatre’s season in a two-week run starting Thursday, has been hailed as “hypnotic” (New York Times) and “intensely cathartic” (Washington Post). “I wanted to know why he mattered so much to me, and in such a personal way.” He shelved his other projects and plunged into research about King. “I felt as if I’d lost a blood brother,” said Smith. police officers, had been found at the bottom of his backyard pool. The lifeless body of Rodney King, a semiliterate construction worker who unexpectedly became a byword for racial tumult after his 1991 videotaped beating by white L.A. Octo// Categories: Theater School of Theater Announces New Faculty AppointmentsĮarlier this month, Dean of CalArts’ School of Theater Travis Preston announced the 2011-12 school year’s new faculty members and appointments.On Father’s Day three years ago, actor, playwright and director Roger Guenveur Smith was at home in Los Angeles working on a show about the dad of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank when he popped open his laptop to news that stunned him. Two productions recently opened in Downtown Los Angeles that showcase the work of newly appointed CalArts Faculty member and actor Roger Guenveur Smith and alumna playwright Virginia Grise (Theater MFA… Continue reading » Janu// Categories: Institute, Theater CalArtian Theater Productions Premiere Downtown Renown actor and CalArts faculty member Roger Guenveur Smith embodies one of America’s great social reformers in the solo show Frederick Douglass Now, presented at CalArts on Tuesday (Jan. Septem// Categories: Theater Roger Guenveur Smith Channels Abolitionist Leader in Frederick Douglass Now Janu// Categories: Critical Studies, Theater The Bootleg Theatre Presents Roger Guenveur Smith’s ‘Rodney King’ĬalArts School of Theater faculty member Roger Guenveur Smith takes to the stage with his latest work Rodney King in a limited-run production at the The Bootleg Theater (Sept. 22) for one night only, celebrated solo performer and former CalArts School of Theater faculty member Roger Guenveur Smith returns to CalArts to present a free performance of… Continue reading » 5), CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program kicks off the Spring edition of its Writing Now Reading Series with a presentation by actor, director, writer and CalArts School of… Continue reading »įebru// Categories: Critical Studies, Events Roger Guenveur Smith Presents One-Man ‘Rodney King’ Production at CalArts The Hendrix Project… Continue reading »Įvent FebruWriting Now Reading Series Presents Roger Guenveur Smith Release ApRoger Guenveur Smith’s, Spike Lee’s Rodney King Now on NetflixĪbove: Trailer for ‘Rodney King.’ Today (April 28), the one-man show Rodney King, written and performed by actor and former CalArts School of Theater faculty Roger Guenveur Smith and directed by Spike Lee, premieres… Continue reading »Įvent February 17 - 25, 2017 CalArts School of Theater Presents The Hendrix ProjectĬalArts’ School of Theater is in the midst of a new production helmed by guest artist and former CalArts faculty Roger Guenveur Smith with design by BFA students. Performances take place at the BRIC House in… Continue reading » 9, 2018 update The Hendrix Project begins its world premiere run this week at the Under the Radar Festival in New York. Event December 7 - 9, 2017 The Hendrix Project: From CalArts to Under the Radar
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