This site is written for the version of me who didn’t yet have access—meant to open his eyes, widen his world, and pull him in with story, honesty, and just enough tea to keep him coming back.

The Black Playbill is a space for cultural criticism and personal reflection, centered on Broadway, film, and the arts, but guided by lived experience.

I write as a Black man who came to himself through performance, story, and lineage. Here, art isn’t just reviewed; it’s interrogated, contextualized, and allowed to brush up against a real life mine.

Some pieces will feel archival. Some will feel intimate. Most will be a little bit of both.

From time to time, I also write short fiction stories that sit adjacent to the themes explored here.

Where to Begin

If you’re new, I recommend starting here:

• Black Broadway — reflections on theater, performance, and presence

• Black Hollywood — film, television, and the stories we keep telling

• Essays — personal writing where my story and the culture meet

• Interludes — personal works of fiction

This isn’t a feed to skim.

It’s a place to linger.

If something here opens a door for you the way art once did for me, then the work is doing what it’s meant to do.