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Metro Theater Company has selected Jacqueline Thompson as its next artistic director. Thompson said she hopes to bring in more local talent to help produce, appear in and craft plays.

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Many critics of the white-dominated theater canon in the U.S. point to the intense focus on Shakespeare as a force that holds back artists of color. St. Louis Shakespeare Festival's production of "King Lear" features a predominately Black cast 鈥� and makes room for new interpretations of a revered playwright.

As an actor, Ernest Emmanuel Peeples has portrayed a real range of characters 鈥� from Hamlet to the Ghost of Christmas Present. But in recent months, one鈥�

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