"The Hot Wing King" opens at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town this weekend. Set in Memphis, the story follows Cordell and his boyfriend Dwayne as they prepare for the city's annual Hot Wang Festival ...

With his partner Dwayne and their crew, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating magic and firing up his frying pan for the win. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew, things start to simmer over.

Some scenes take more work than others. In The Hot Wing King, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, opening Friday at Writers Theatre and running until July 21, one key moment onstage is a ...

Banks star in “The Hot Wing King” at Writers Theatre. Michael Brosilow Share In “The Hot Wing King,” a group of gay African American men in Memphis prepare for a cooking competition where ...

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The cast of Katori Hall’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize-winner for drama, “The Hot Wing King,” will be stirring up lots of laughs and some great aromas as they prepare the title snack onstage June 20 ...

At one point in “The Hot Wing King,” a character named Isom, played by Joseph Anthony Byrd, pours a whole shaker’s worth of nuclear-level peppers into his friend’s simmering pot of chicken ...