Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah says he was warned that the venue was facing battles with fundraising because some people felt he was turning it into a “black National Theatre”.
Adapted by US playwright Sarah Ruhl with songs by New Wave legend Elvis Costello, this musical version of ‘A Face in the Crowd’ feels like an appropriately splashy finale to Kwame Kwei-Armah’s time as ...
Kwei-Armah grew up in West London, the son of parents who had emigrated from Grenada. He grew up rarely seeing black faces on television. Watching the TV series Roots, about an African man who is ...