Katori Hall: Celebs Rumors

Starz has greenlit Down in the Valley, a documentary series inspired by the hit series P-Valley from executive producers Katori Hall and Nicco Annan. Hall is the creator of P-Valley and Annan has starred as Uncle Clifford since the show’s inception. The project will debut later this year.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Katori Hall’s “P-Valley,” a show about the female dancers at The Pynk, a popular strip club in Mississippi, uses music to shine a spotlight on southern female rappers and artists. In putting together the soundtrack for the series, music supervisors Sarah Bromberg and Stephanie Diaz-Matos turned to the show’s stars, J. Alphonse Nicholson and Loretta Devine, as well as Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion, to curate the anthems for Brandee Evans’ Mercedes, Elarica Johnson’s Autumn Night and Nicco Annan’s Uncle Clifford. Here, Bromberg and Diaz-Matos break down how they landed Beyoncé and other needle drops for the show’s second season.

Naman Ramachandran Theaters in London’s West End will dim their lights at 7pm local time on Thursday in memory of Tina Turner, who died on Wednesday. Hannah Essex, co-chief executive of the Society of London Theatre and U.K. Theatre, said: “The theatre world pays tribute to the immense talent and impact of Tina Turner. She has inspired countless generations through not only her pioneering music career, but her ability to break down barriers in the face of adversity. She will be greatly missed.” “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” is currently playing at the Aldwych Theatre, located in the heart of the West End, London’s theatre district. Kristina Love plays the iconic singer in the musical.

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Starz has renewed its drama series P-Valley for a third season which will consist of 10 episodes. Lionsgate Television produces the series for Starz.

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (★★★☆☆), which just shimmied into the National Theatre, three stops into a 30-city national tour.But the show’s creators, including book writer Katori Hall, a Pulitzer winner for her drama The Hot Wing King, don’t seem to have been too sure what to do with Turner’s cache of classics, succeeding only half the time at persuasively reimagining the songs within the context of the singer’s tumultuous life story.You know the story, told via Turner’s multiple memoirs, plus the beloved 1993 biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It and the stellar 2021 documentary Tina, not to mention semi-autobiographical songs like “Nutbush City Limits.”Tina the musical turns “Nutbush City Limits” into a rousing spiritual, dominated by the gospel wail of Ann Nesby portraying Tina’s Gran Georgeanna. One of the savvier uses of Turner’s catalog, the number introduces young Anna-Mae Bullock (a delightful Ayvah Johnson), a little girl with a big voice, from a broken home in rural Tennessee.In another crafty use of an early hit, teenage Anna-Mae, played on press night by the equally big-voiced Naomi Rodgers (the role is played on select nights by Zurin Villanueva), is introduced by sister Alline (Parris Lewis) to the faster scene in St.

Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Megan Thee Stallion appeared on P-Valley, the cult hit Starz show based in a strip club named The Pynk in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. The moment arrived last night during the penultimate episode when Megan brought her alter ego Tina Snow to perform a new song at The Pynk with Lil Murda (played by J.

P-Valley has continued telling timely, relevant, relatable stories that show taboo topics from an alternate lens. This week’s A-plot found Mercedes and her daughter Terricka in an all-too-timely scenario in our post-Roe world, traveling hours away from their hometown to secure abortion access.

P-Valley is already shattering streaming records! The highly-anticipated return of STARZ’s hit stripper drama saw viewership numbers increase like nothing the platform has ever experienced before. P-Valley‘s season 2 premiere episode, “P*ssyland,” reached 4.5 Million multiplatform viewers over the course of its premiere weekend – a 1,018% increase from its first season – making this the largest season-over-season growth in STARZ history.

Katori Hall’s stroke of genius hit the public just as we were all a captive audience – right at the height of the 2020 era of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a fresh concept, vivid characters, and a wild ride of a storyline drenched in neon light and Mississippi heat, P-Valley became an instant must-watch weekly event for hundreds of thousands of viewers bound to the house and eager for streaming gold. With a first season, fans are still talking about to this day, the creator and showrunner knew the pressures sitting on Season 2 of STARZ’s hit stripper-drama, based on her original 2015 play, P*ssy Valley.

Tina Turner, thanks to the success of 1993’s What’s Love Got To Do With It, starring Angela Bassett. But audiences who get a chance to watch the “Queen of Rock n’ Roll’slife unfold on the stage will learn there’s more to Turner’s journey than they ever knew before.TINA – The Tina Turner Musical has officially reopened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre with Nkeki Obi-Melekwe starring in the title role.

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Katori Hall is having a moment. Almost a year ago, the television adaptation of her stage play “P-Valley” debuted as an ongoing series to critical acclaim and impressive ratings on Starz.

P-Valley, the buzzy summer series about the complicated lives of exotic dancers created by award-winning playwright Katori Hall, left audiences wanting more from the characters they have watched break and breakthrough the first season. (We know you’ll get that dance studio one day Mercedes!) The last episode answered many burning questions: Who was Autumn running away from? Why Keyshawn wouldn’t leave her abusive relationship? And ultimately, would Uncle Clifford—played brilliantly by Nicco Annan—save The Pynk from the money grubbing hands of Mayor Ruffin and the Kyle Brothers? Many dark truths about the people who work at Chucalissa’s finest establishment came into the light.

"A long time ago I took a pole dancing class, and I was dizzy just walking around the pole," says Rita McGhee. 15 years later, the Emmy-nominated costume designer is the person responsible for dressing all the pole dancer characters in Starz’ summer hit, P-Valley, which will air its finale on September 6, 2020.

P-Valley, a new steamy drama centered at a gritty strip club in the Mississippi Delta. To all others, it’s simply fact.

hasn’t even premiered yet, and the STARZ series is already being called and The premise: an in-depth look into the lives of the dancers at The Pynk, a strip club set in Mississippi’s “Dirty Delta.” But in the hands of award-winning playwright Katori Hall (The Mountaintop, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), P-Valley isn't focused on the dancing or the men who frequent these clubs—it's about how the women found , and the freedom it offers them. Based on Hall’s critically acclaimed play Pussy Valley, the series draws on her experience as a Black woman coming of age in the South. She wasn’t a dancer, but she was inspired by the athleticism of the women she saw around her.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticLast year’s film “Hustlers” depicted the strip club as the staging-ground for the revolution, with its arch-capitalist dancers redistributing the wealth of their New York financier clients. It was a fantasy that had the surprising twist of having really happened, and a story that popped with eagerness for the next big set piece to unfold.“P-Valley,” a new Starz drama written by the playwright Katori Hall and based on her stage play, is set in a similar milieu, but unfolds at a somewhat more deliberate pace.

strip club in ‘The Sopranos’.  Oftentimes you had Tony sitting in the front, and women are in the back. All you see is their body or their legs and you don’t even see their faces.“So, because we are always entering our story from the perspective of the women, we really were walking in a woman’s high-heeled platform shoes though this world.”“P-Valley” is an ensemble drama set at Pynk, a strip club in the fictional town of Chucalissa, Miss.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIn 2009, award-winning playwright Katori Hall started research for her play Pussy Valley, which put a spotlight on the world of stripping. She stepped into the heels of these women, took pole dancing classes and even spent her 30th birthday in the locker room of the New York strip club Sin City Bronx.

P-Valley will see why these perceived dens of iniquity hold such an allure within the culture. An adaptation of playwright Katori Hall's play Pussy Valley, P-Valley blends the profane, the sacred, and the politics of the almighty dollar to tell sharp, wildly engrossing stories about Black women on the margins who use their bodies to keep families and whole communities afloat.

Katori Hall, she’s on a mission to put a human face on exotic dancers and shows their full lives off the pole with her play-turned-series PValley.During the ESSENCE Festival of Culture’s Entertainment All Access program, Yes Girl! podcast cohost Cori Murray and Hall—who has a long list of receipts for writing the2010 award-winning play The Mountaintop (which starred Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson on Broadway) and the current Tina, The Tina Turner Musical--spilled some tea about her highly anticipated new show, which premieres July 12 on Starz.

Player’s Club meets Claws with a little bit of Set It Off? This summer’s newest must-see television series.Starz newest drama series takes us behind the scenes at a strip club. And as simple as that may sound, it’s good.