1 Alaska Thunderf*ck and J. Harrison Ghee Will Lead OH, MARY! National Tour Ellams admits to eavesdropping in the barber shops he visited and transcribing the local stories. He captures the distinct ...

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, under the leadership of Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Producer Diane Borger, announces the cast and ...

There’s a lot going on in “Barber Shop Chronicles” — and haircuts are only part of it. Created by the Nigerian-born, U.K.-based poet and playwright Inua Ellams, this one-of-a-kind theater work delves ...

“Barber Shop Chronicles,” imported from England, might be described as “Steel Magnolias” for the African male. But there is much more to Nigerian-born, London-based Inua Ellams’ hair-salon-set play ...

CAMBRIDGE — When two men angrily square off in a barber shop at one point in “Barber Shop Chronicles,’’ the shop’s owner quickly tries to calm things down by reminding them of the true reason they and ...

You could easily overdo a comparison between Nigerian-born, London-based writer Inua Ellams and the late American dramatist August Wilson. But watching Ellams’s “Barber Shop Chronicles” this week at ...

Playwright and poet Inua Ellams didn’t write “Barber Shop Chronicles.” He stole it. He was intrigued after a friend gave him a flier advertising a course to teach barbers the basics of mental health ...

It's not just London in which Inua Ellam's riotous play Barber Shop Chronicles — newly transferred to the Roundhouse from the National Theatre — takes place. Scenes in barber shops in Lagos, Accra, ...

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One day. Six cities. A thousand stories. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops. Sometimes they have haircuts, sometimes they listen, more often than not they talk. Barbershops are ...