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Theatre and Joy in Fort Worth: James Ijames’s “Fat Ham” and the Marleys’ “Three Little Birds”

I want to sing praise for two Fort-Worth-based theatrical productions in this blogpost. But first I need to share a bit of context from July theatre-going beyond Texas that will help explain why I’m so proud of our local theatre scene. The Three Little Birds show Jubilee Theatre offered up recently as a multi-generational song-and-story …

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Constitutionally Focused at Stage West, Fort Worth: Revisiting a Core Document During Election Season

I may not have been a typical audience member when I attended the opening-night performance of Stage West’s What the Constitution Means to Me on October 19. After all, I’m a professor currently teaching a course on citizenship literature. I arrived at the theatre a few days after facilitating a class discussion on John Marshall …

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