“I think it starts with... how bad do you want the dream?” said Director Robert Townsend as he shared how he went from the Chicago kid with the nickname “TV Guide” due to his encyclopedic knowledge of ...

Robert Townsend's Pop-Up Film Festival will be held at Columbia College Chicago and across downtown Chicago on Saturday and ...

Robert Townsend has never stopped moving. For a recent Zoom interview, he is on his phone from his (parked) car so he can go for one of his regular walks around a local L.A. lake once he’s finished.

ST. LOUIS — Hollywood veteran and independent film trailblazer Robert Townsend is returning to the stage, and to St. Louis, with his deeply personal one-man show Living the Shuffle, performing two ...

Every generation has a Robert Townsend movie for them, whether it’s his acerbic examination of Black actors in the film industry with 1987’s “Hollywood Shuffle,” his attempt to crack the superhero ...

How scarce were opportunities for Black filmmakers when Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans dreamt up the idea for Hollywood Shuffle in the mid-1980s? Townsend, who had a solid acting career at ...

*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 ...

Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This fourth and final volume in the Partners in Crime collection features ...

Robert Townsend, the triple-threat creative force behind “Hollywood Shuffle”--the 1987 groundbreaking satire of the movie business--is caught in a Sunday evening TV shuffle. Townsend’s latest ...

Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This third riotous volume in the Partners in Crime collection features ...