From the moment he came into the world “feet first” as the result of a breech birth, Emmett Till wanted to stand up, his mother recalls early in Ifa Bayeza’s powerful play. How the African-American ...

CHICAGO — More than three decades ago, Ifa Bayeza came up with the idea that her sister, a poet, should create a work for the stage. “I went on a two-year effort to convince her to release her writing ...

It was 62 years ago this summer that Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi — an appalling racial crime that helped ignite the civil rights movement. This week, Ion Theatre revisits his story with ...

For roughly the last half-century, nearly every black female writer of any consequence in America seems to have had one very particular story to tell — or, rather, one particular question she’s tried ...

Sisters Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf) and Bayeza (The Ballad of Emmett Till) collaborated on Some Sing, Some Cry, a lush chronicle spanning 200 years ...

Penumbra Theatre produced Ifa Bayeza’s award winning production, "The Ballad of Emmett Till." Penumbra Artistic Director, Sarah Bellamy, says the theatre is now proud to introduce the world premiere ...

In her accomplished but not yet fully focused new work, "The Ballad of Emmett Till," playwright Ifa Bayeza is not at all shy about making a direct comparison between her title character, the Chicago ...

Ifa Bayeza reached a critical point three years ago. She found herself on the edge of the Tallahatchie River—the spot where Mississippi authorities in 1955 recovered the mutilated remains of ...

In keeping with the mission and vision of The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc, the company will present "a photograph / lovers in motion," written by Ntozake Shange and adapted and directed by Ifa Bayeza, ...

When playwright Ifa Bayeza set out in the late 1990s to tell the story of Emmett Till — the Black 14-year-old who was abducted and lynched by two White men in 1955 Mississippi — the United States was ...

In a chillingly lyrical moment in Ifa Bayeza’s play “Benevolence,” a guilty Mississippi woman sees a vision in a burning cloth. It’s 1955, and this White 20-something surely knows her husband is off ...

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