StreetSigns Center

20/11/2024

More good ink for Mike Wiley and Howard L. Craft's Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely, directed by Joseph Megel.

By Dani Daniela, staff writer

18/11/2024

Yesterday was quite a day. We were in the midst of the familiar ritual of returning the theatre to blankness after the closing performance of Mike Wiley and Howard L. Craft's Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely when the news came in that a film made by J. Alphonse Nicholson from Howard L. Craft's Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green in a production at the Fountain Theatre directed by Joseph Megel had just won Best Narrative Feature at the Urbanworld Film Festival in NYC. Joseph had just flown back from the screening to be with us for Mike Wiley's final performance of Changing Same. I believe Joseph had a broom in his hand when the news came in. Theatre. Congratulations to all those involved in making Freight and Changing Same. (Photo at Urbanworld courtesy of Renee Alexander Craft. Photo of Mike Wiley (as Melvina Jones) by Jennifer Sanderson.)

15/11/2024

REMINDER: We will start the waitlist in person 45 minutes prior to curtain each night for door cancellations. We were able to get a few extra people in last night, so it's always worth taking the chance!

(Photo credit: Jennifer Sanderson for StreetSigns Center)

14/11/2024

Thanks to Kurt Benrud and the fine folks at Triangle Review for coming to see Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely (UNC) last weekend!

"It's always a pleasure to attend a performance of a brand-new script. The experience is especially sweet when the script is an outstanding example of its genre and when the performance is imaginatively presented and flawlessly executed.

Such is the case with Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely, a brand-new one-man show written by Mike Wiley and Howard L. Craft and performed by Mike Wiley."

To start your FREE subscription to the Triangle Review, click SUBSCRIBE-TR. You may UNSUBSCRIBE-TR at any time. Edited and Published by Robert W. McDowell November 7, 2024 Issue PART 6 (November 10, 2

14/11/2024

All Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely (DUKE) performances are currently at capacity this weekend. Yay? We've added every chair we can (and not bump against gathering regulations). We'll start an in-person waitlist at Brody 45 minutes prior to curtain for any door cancellations.

(photo credit: Jennifer Sanderson for StreetSigns Center)

09/11/2024

We'd like to thank our production partners on Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely (DUKE) : Process Series: New Works in Development, America's Hallowed Ground at Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Booker T. Spicely Committee. We are grateful to be making this show at this time in history with you. (photo credit: Jennifer Sanderson for StreetSigns Center)

09/11/2024

"Changing Same" Update! The good/bad news: We're Sold Out for the remainder of this weekend at UNC. We will start an in-person waitlist at Swain at 6:45pm on Saturday and 1:15pm on Sunday!

More good/bad news: we're Sold Out for next Friday at Duke, but the other 3 performances still have tickets (at the time of this writing). So don't delay! Link Below.

(Photo credit: Jennifer Sanderson for StreetSigns Center)

08/11/2024

Thank you to the The News & Observer for covering Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely (UNC)! We have a few tickets left for this weekend and are almost sold out for next. If you're looking for a place to be in community right now, we can't think of a better room than this theater.

New one-man play uncovers complexities of a Jim Crow-era murder in Durham

08/11/2024

Did you catch playwrights Mike Wiley and Howard Craft on
North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC Due South? Listen in to find out more about the show, Spicely, and telling Durham history:

Eighty years ago, Black soldier Booker T. Spicely was shot and killed in Durham by a white bus driver. Playwrights Howard L. Craft and Mike Wiley explore what has not changed since that time.

07/11/2024

Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely (UNC) starts tonight. There is so much the team wants to say but we'd prefer to let the work speak for itself. Mike & Howard have written an incredibly prescient script and Mike brings the characters to life in moving ways. Moments like these are what live theater is made for. Join us?

02/11/2024

This was the only time all of Sound Design and Music was going to be in the room together! Musician Corbie Hill, co Sound Designers Naveed Moeed and Michael Betts II are working magic to bring the soundscape of "Changing Same" to life.

Tickets are moving!!