Quincy Tyler Bernstine plays the real-life 19th-century Jamaican-born healer in 'Marys Seacole,' the new experimental drama by Jackie Sibblies Drury, author of the acclaimed 'Fairview.' By Frank ...

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Live Arts Theater’s 2024-2025 Voyages Season continues with the Virginia premiere of “Marys Seacole,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s time-travelling chronicle inspired by the real-life of Mary Seacole.

Six years ago, Jackie Sibbles Drury wrote a play about a zombie apocalypse, titled “Social Creatures.” Her new play, which opened Monday at LCT’s Claire Tow Theater, is about a health-care apocalypse, ...

The government of Jamaica has proclaimed November 23, 2021, as Mary Seacole Day, in memory of Mary Jane Seacole (1805–1881), an extraordinary Jamaica-born nurse and entrepreneur who travelled ...

At a time when the politics of identity has become a central subject of theatrical inquiry, it’s only fitting that African American dramatists have been leading the charge. Jackie Sibblies Drury ...

Friday marked the end of the week-long run of a student-produced production “Marys Seacole” at the Yale Repertory Theater. The play is the David Geffen School of Drama’s first production of 2023.

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury had too many things in mind when she wrote this play about Mary Seacole, a real-life Jamaican-born healer who improbably served in the 19 th-century Crimean War. Drury ...

Unearthing the obscure legend of an extraordinary real-life 19th-century heroine, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s reflective drama Marys Seacole (★★☆☆☆) introduces its audience to many Marys across the ages. ...

Broadway star and famed singer of the “Reading Rainbow” television show theme song, Tina Fabrique appears alongside local favorite Kim Bey under the direction of beloved local director Eric Ruffin in ...

Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star in the humanitarian drama “Seacole,” based on the life of pioneering Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, Variety has learned exclusively. Charlie Stratton will direct from a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Numan Acar, who appears in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far from Home, is set to play opposite Sam Worthington and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Seacole, the Charlie Stratton-directed indie based on the ...