A Theater Preview Highlights African-American Arts On Stage in 2017

By Anita Rao,

Published January 12, 2017 at 12:19 PM EST

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Sherri Holmes is the founder and director of Triangle Friends of African-American Arts, an organization supporting art and theater in the Triangle.

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Philip Bernard Smith as Simon in the Raleigh Little Theatre production 'The Whipping Man.'

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How did one word both lift a white playwright to American fame and condemn a black actor to failure?

How did the relationships between slaveholders and the formerly enslaved change after The Civil War? These are just two of the questions explored on stages around the Triangle this season that will be featured in Host Frank Stasio discusses the preview with Sherri Holmes, the founder and director of the .

He is also joined by playwright to discuss her new play , and actors Phillip Bernard Smith and Chris Helton who star in the Raleigh Little Theatre鈥檚 production of on stage through January 29th.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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