Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Townsend wanted to blindly hire Beyoncé to star as Carmen Brown in the MTV film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and watched Queen ...

Robert Townsend recently opened up about witnessing Beyoncé’s undeniable spark during her very first audition for the MTV movie Carmen: A Hip Hopera. Speaking with Lena Waithe on Legacy Talk, the ...

Davey D of Hard Knock Radio recently sat down with Robert Townsend, an acclaimed actor, director, and filmmaker. Townsend is recognized not just for his significant contributions to film and ...

Chicago native Robert Townsend has done it all. He is all things writer, director, actor, comedian and producer, whose portfolio includes work with entertainment mainstays like Denzel Washington, Ruth ...

2 Mariska Hargitay to Perform EVERY BRILLIANT THING at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley I chatted with Townsend on Martin Luther King Day from his home base in Southern California where he was putting ...

Robert Townsend’s Pop-Up Film Festival benefits Chicago’s West Side branch of the NAACP and a local award-winning autism advocacy agency, The Answer Inc. Acclaimed actor and West Side native Robert ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chicago native has been in the entertainment business for 50 years, acting, writing, directing and producing. This weekend, ...

*Fans of Robert Townsend’s “The Five Heartbeats” will get an in depth look inside their favorite film, courtesy of the director himself. “Right now, I’m working on a documentary about how I made the ...

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