CHICAGO (WLS) -- "A Wonderful World" is a new musical playing on Broadway in Chicago, and the show features impressive dance talent. Master tap dancer DeWitt Fleming Jr. portrays Stepin Fetchit in the ...

The NBA legend and his SpringHill partner Maverick Carter are teaming with Debbie Allen, who will make her Center Theatre Group directorial debut on Will Power's play about Muhammad Ali and Stepin ...

It would be hard to imagine two more divergent personalities than heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Hollywood comedian Stepin Fetchit. Temperamental opposites, they formed an improbable alliance ...

And speaking of Stepin Fetchit and Des McAnuff, there’s an interesting play on now at New York Theatre Workshop called Fetch Clay, Make Man, about the unlikely friendship between Fetchit and Muhammad ...

Few pop consumers remember who Stepin Fetchit was. That must mean we’ve come a long way from the period when mass media trafficked in racist black stereotypes, because Stepin Fetchit was one of the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN, when people address Stepin Fetchit, the well-known (if ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. –Roscoe Orman, who played Gordon on PBS's "Sesame Street" for 21 years, will present a one-man production called "The Confession of Stepin Fetchit" sponsored by the Black Cultural ...

Although he never won an Oscar, Lincoln Perry was America's first black movie star. But for that distinction, Perry paid a heavy price -- he is best known as the character of Stepin Fetchit, a ...

During his time, Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry’s success could have been considered the epitome of any man’s dream, regardless of race. Born in Key West, Fla., in 1892 to Caribbean parents, ...

It would be hard to imagine two more divergent personalities than heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Hollywood comedian Stepin Fetchit. Temperamental opposites, they formed an improbable alliance ...