WALLACE THURMAN’S
FIRE!!

Written and adapted by Marilyn Campbell-Lowe and Paul Oakley Stovall

In 1927,  FIRE!!, a quarterly “Devoted To Younger Negro Artists” was published in Harlem and changed the future of American literature. Including illustrations, poems, essays, short stories and plays, FIRE!! was the first all-Black magazine, by a young group of writers and artists including Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John P. Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, Lewis Grandison Alexander, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. This theatrical happening will weave together the lives of legendary giants as they speak their incendiary stories, make explosive music, dance, debate, collaborate and celebrate their work from FIRE!!

OCT 8 - NOV 2, 2025

CREATIVE

Raelle Myrick-Hodges
Director

Based on the magazine by
Wallace Thurman

Adapted for the Stage by
Marilyn Campbell-Lowe & Paul Oakley Stovall