IN THE WORKS OF OTHERSGREG TATE
Gregory Tate was an American writer, musician, and producer. A long-time critic for The Village Voice, Tate focused particularly on African-American music and culture, helping to establish hip-hop as a genre worthy of music criticism. Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1992) collected 40 of his works for the Voice and he published a sequel, Flyboy 2, in 2016. A musician himself, he was a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition and the leader of Burnt Sugar.
MY DARLING GREMLIN
A trio of black bohemian Los Angelenos set out cross-country on a bicycle built for three. They stray into the desert stronghold of an Afrocentric virtual reality cult near Las Vegas and one of them falls in love. Should they stay or go? Political agendas collide with personal agendas as [the playwright] taps into lesbian and gay politics, Afrikan mysticism and paranoid-conspiracy theories. Add to this a score composed and conducted by Butch Morris for his five piece ensemble.
