Mildred Marie Langford Archives

Hattie McDaniel (Gabrielle Lott-Rogers) stands left in front of a bar, in a vibrant blue gown, with a gardenia in her hair. Dottie (Mildred Marie Langford) stands right behind the bar, wearing a black-and-white maid's outfit. She is looking at a piece of paper containing a thank-you speech for the Oscars that the studio wrote for McDaniel.

#OscarsSoWhite

by Kerry Reid February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

This past fall, TimeLine offered a blistering revival of Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind, in which a Black actress in a 1950s Broadway play about lynching (penned and directed by white men, naturally) takes a stand against the insulting stereotypes in the script and the microaggressions in the rehearsal room. They’ve followed that up with […]

A Black woman in early 1900s lingerie strikes a pose in front of a Black woman in a white dress, who is seated in a room with a chaise lounge, work table, and a mannequin

Theater Review

The fabric of romance

by Kelly Kleiman April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

In Tasia A. Jones’s impeccable production, Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel is as beautiful as the title garments, and its characters as fragile. Set in 1905, the play follows the efforts of seamstress Esther (the perfect Mildred Marie Langford) to reconcile her desire for love and marriage with her ambition to open her own business. Whether […]

Arts & Culture

Theater Review: Steppenwolf’s Next Up

by Zac Thompson June 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Young directors know the old ways well