Stream Roger Guenveur Smith’s A Huey P. Newton Story via L.A. Theater Works
L.A. Theater Works are celebrating the works of different powerful voices within the black community, giving people free access to six recordings from their vaults for a limited time. Luna Ray Media’s Roger Guenveur Smith’s has been included with his A Huey P. Newton Story recording from 2000. Captured live in front of an audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles during February of 2000, Smith wrote, directed, and performed this riveting work. Music was provided by Marc Thompson.
From L.A. Theater Works:
In his brilliantly-imagined, Obie Award-winning show, Roger Guenveur Smith explores the life of the controversial Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton through a series of improvisations based on his own words and writings. Biography, satire, and socio-political commentary blend within a landscape of fantastic sound design to create a provocative, surreal and always surprising portrait of the complex times in which he lived.
Stream the live recording below: