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A Visit to Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Salon Brings Non-Stop Hilarity at Arena Stage

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Arena Stage Jordan Wright September 13, 2024 Special to The Zebra

Bisserat Tseggai (Miriam) and Mia Ellis (Jennifer) in Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. (Photo/T. Charles Erickson Photography)

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King Lear Shakespeare Theatre Company Jordan Wright March 5, 2023 Special to The Zebra

Patrick Page in King Lear (Photo/DJ Corey Photography)

As a cautionary tale King Lear offers up lessons so dark, so full of evil premonition and so dangerously dire, one might […]

Round House Theatre Jordan Wright June 15, 2022 Special to The Zebra

Yao Dogbe (Gbenga Ezie), Ernaisja Curry (Ayamma Okafor), Renea Brown (Dede Okafor), and Joel Ashur (Wale Owusu) (Photo/Margot Schulman)

Fact: Fashioned after India’s Bollywood film industry, Nollywood is the second most productive film industry in the world […]