MONTREAL — To playwright Djanet Sears, taking on Shakespeare is a bit like taking on God. He’s the literary deity that many of us were raised to revere. But she’s careful about defining the genre of ...

The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God is the most recent oeuvre from Canadian playwright Djanet Sears. Put on in collaboration with the Black Theatre Workshop and the Centaur Theatre, the ...

“I’m tired of pleasing white folks!” declares Billie, the heroine of Djanet Sears’s Harlem Duet, in one of the play’s dream sequences. She’s imagining an escape from slavery in the 1800s, but her ...

Djanet Sears' provocative play Harlem Duet joins the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival's 33rd Season in Sen?"ákw/Vanier Park. The Bard premiere of Harlem Duet runs on the Howard Family Stage in ...

Two plays written by women: Harlem Duet, by Djanet Sears, presented by Black Theatre Workshop, and Trench Patterns, by Alyson Grant, presented by Infinitheatre , are currently playing, in English, in ...