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s4e15 Kim McMillon’s Black Heaven, New Music from Widespread Panic
s4e15 Kim McMillon’s Black Heaven, New Music from Widespread Panic
Joel Beverly, Judy Bady, Bato Aydelotte
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s4e15
April 23, 2026
Martha Cinader welcomes playwright Kim McMillon. “Black Heaven” explores blackness through a fictional lecture series in heaven, featuring a host of living and unliving characters sucha as W.E.B. Du Bois, August Wilson, Alice Walker and Bertold Brecht. McMillon discusses the play’s theme of blackness, sometimes even if you’re not black in this life, the importance of black representation in theater, and the enduring impact of…
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