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Katori Hall’s comedy-drama play The Hot Wing King, which was given a world premiere by Off Broadway’s Signature Theatre Company just before the pandemic shutdown, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today. Hall, a Memphis native currently Tony-nominated for writing the book for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical…

"I always say that our guiding principle, our lighthouse, our bullseye, is the female gaze," declares P-Valley creator Katori Hall of the subversive Starz strip club series. "So, I always wanted to place the audience in the platform heels of the dancers, to the point where I want people to feel the wobble," the…

Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, playing sports and running track with her sisters, sowed in Katori Hall the seeds of respect she holds today for women who strip—a respect that runs through her debut series P-Valley. Created from her play, Pussy Valley, the show focuses on the staff of a strip club in the Mississippi…

In 2009, award-winning playwright Katori Hall started research for her play Pussy Valley, which put a spotlight on the world of stripping. She stepped into the heels of these women, took pole dancing classes and even spent her 30th birthday in the locker room of the New York strip club Sin City Bronx. On the surface…

Starz has released the official trailer for P-Valley, its Mississippi Delta drama series about a small-town strip club and the larger-than-life characters who come through it. The series based on The Tina Turner Musical‘s Katori Hall’s stage play is set to premiere Sunday, July 12 at 9 PM after the season finale of Hig…

After the ATX Television Festival shared a very generous preview of the forthcoming  P-Valley, show creator Katori Hall and actors Brandee Evans, Nicco Annan and Elarica Johnson hopped on for a virtual Q&A to talk about the Starz drama and the stigma often attached to the women who make a living by dancing at a strip…