onstage

While that’s not strictly true — about half the 17-song set draws from 2020’s "Rough and Rowdy Ways" — that is a lot from a man who isn’t fond of talking much onstage these days.

August Wilson made it his mission to put the rituals of Black life onstage, to give representation to the daily customs of a people who had been denied visibility in mainstream culture.

Before I go onstage, to everyone in my band and my dancers, I’m like, “Broadway, guys — Broadway.”

Known for his near-falsetto high voice and contrarian fondness for professorial suits onstage, Thomas cut as distinct a figure onstage as his music did on record.

I moved to Cabo, lived in a bathing suit, walked onstage with no shirt back in those days.