Category: Theatre

Akin Babatunde won the 2010 Audelco Award for Best Director/Musical Production for “Blind Lemon Blues,” of which he is the co-author (with fellow UT Dallas alum Alan Govenar), director, musical arranger, choreographer and star. The Audelco Awards, which honor excellence in Black Theatre, were presented at Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.’s Marian Anderson Theatre in […]

Akin Babatunde was recently nominated in four categories for the coveted New York Audelco Award for Excellence in Black Theater. His show, “Blind Lemon Blues,” received the nomination for Best Director, Best Choreographer, Best Ensemble and Best Musical Production of the Year . Babatunde says he is thrilled to be nominated in the same category […]

Literary icon Arthur Miller’s American classic, All My Sons, takes the stage in the University Theatre at The University of Texas at Dallas, Oct. 7-9 and Oct. 14–16. The play is directed by Dallas-based actor and UT Dallas lecturer Akin Babatunde, whose play was recently nominated in four categories for the coveted New York Audelco Awards for […]

Please join us for our Members Salon! 6961 Lakewood Blvd. Dallas, TX 75214 www.wordspacetexas.org Thursday, Sept. 16, 8pm to 9:30pm featuring Cindy St. John and Venus Opal Reese Cindy St. John is the author of City Poems (Effing Press 2009) and People Who Are in Love Will Read This Book Differently (Dancing Girl Press 2009). Her poems have appeared […]