Editor’s note: Sarah Jean’s great-uncle is the only black barber in the county. Despite setbacks, Uncle Jed pursues his dream of opening his own barbershop. Jedediah Johnson was my granddaddy’s ...

Ken Prymus as the sharecropper and only Black barber in 1928 Monroe County, Arkansas in the musical "Uncle Jed's Barbershop." “Uncle Jed’s Barbershop” leaps from the bookshelf to the stage this ...

KUSA – A new musical is playing in Denver and it features First Lady Mary Louise Lee. "Uncle Jed's Barbershop" is a family musical about a black barber in a county of sharecroppers in Arkansas during ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In the show, the middle-aged "Sarah Jean returns home from Detroit in the early ...

What is the effect of the passage of time on our dreams? Uncle Jed's dream to have his own barbershop in the Arkansas of 1928 doesn't come true until he is 79 years old, and he accepts that he cannot ...

What is the effect of the passage of time on our dreams? Uncle Jed's dream to have his own barbershop in the Arkansas of 1928 doesn't come true until he is 79 years old, and he accepts that he cannot ...

” ‘Uncle Jed’s Barbershop’ by Margaree King Mitchell is about a girl’s uncle who owns a barbershop. Every time she sees him they play a little game. She asked him to cut her hair. He does not. He ...