Roger Guenveur Smith knows that the Huey P. Newton most of us remember is a one-dimensional figure — the angry revolutionary with a rifle in hand and a bandoleer across his chest. But to Smith ...

Roger Guenveur Smith addresses Newton’s inherent contradictions in his one-man “A Huey P. Newton Story,” which has returned to L.A., at Los Angeles Theatre Center’s Theatre 3, after ...

Actor and writer Roger Guenveur Smith has adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A Huey P. Newton Story into an innovative film for television directed by long-time colleague and ...

“A Huey P. Newton Story” is a Roger Guenveur Smith tour de force. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party and its defense minister, is likely only a vague memory from the turbulent ...

“I am no saint,” actor Roger Guenveur Smith says during ... But while “A Huey P. Newton Story,” based on Smith’s award-winning one-man play and directed with deft precision by Spike ...

Writer/director/actor Roger Guenveur ... the latest in Smith’s prolific body of historically-driven work. He adapted his Obie Award-winning A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY into a Peabody Award-winning ...

After collaborating with Roger Guenveur Smith on film adaptations of A Huey P. Newton Story and Rodney King, Spike Lee will team up with the theatre artist once again to bring Frederick Douglass ...

Roger Guenveur Smith Starring: Roger Guenveur Smith Produced by: Steven Adams ... A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY ON STAGE World Premiere 1995 Magic and Oakland Ensemble Theatres MAME HUNT and ZARITA ...

Roger Guenveur Smith's masterful ... The script is primarily a compilation of Huey P. Newton's writings and interviews, but it is Smith who recreates one of America's most complex and ...