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Perry operates at the margins of the theatrical community; his works are not staged on Broadway, off-Broadway, or even off-off-Broadway. The theatres that host his productions comprise the evocatively titled “chitlin’ circuit:” a collective of venues that specialize in black and religious-themed dramas...
Perry’s plays are perfect chitlin’ circuit fodder: they recreate and comment on the black experience with a deft blend of comedy and pathos. His productions often feature incarceration, addiction, adultery, and financial ruin. But these are always overcome in the end by the positive forces of family, Christianity, and good humor. Perry’s oeuvre transcends entertainment: it is a compelling dramatization of black America’s collective anxieties and hopes...
...uniting its participants is not going to be an easy task. Christopher, Bushu, and the other employees describe an overriding disunity in the Boston hip hop scene, an obstacle, they say, that is only made more insurmountable by the scene’s bad reputation in the national circuit...
...think that's very important, but Chief Justices have come from remarkably strange places. Nobody would have predicted that Earl Warren would have been able to do that on Brown v. Board of Education. When President Nixon tapped Warren Burger to be Chief Justice, he was a relatively unknown circuit judge and did very, very well...
...film had a successful run through the film festival circuit, and garnered first prize at the National Council on Family Relations Media Competition. The Boston Phoenix described it as “ingratiatingly unpretentious,” and that turn of phrase could really be used to describe the essence of Mallozzi’s personality and approach to filmmaking...