DC Theater in Depth: 'Not In Our House' and 'Queens Girl in Africa'

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 6:45 p.m.

On this episode of "By Any Means Necessary" is joined by Dane Figueroa Edidi, Black, Cuban, Indigenous, Nigerian trans woman, performance artist, playwright and advocate to talk about the Grammy Awards and the relationship between pop culture and social movements, the efforts to address larger issues of sexual misconduct at an institutional level, the staggering ways artists feel unsafe while making art within American theater, and the 'Not In Our House DC' town hall forum on January 29, 2018 at Shakespeare Theatre's Harman Hall in Washington, D.C. from 6:30-9:30 pm.

Later "By Any Means Necessary" is joined by actor, director, and playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Professor of Theater at American University, to talk about her new play QUEENS GIRL IN AFRICA starring Erika Rose at Mosaic Theater located at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. The show runs through Feb 4th and looks at the juxtaposition of the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the rise of civil war in Nigeria between 1965-1970.