Not quite a year since her death, Tavis Smiley and director Kenny Leon have announced that they have teamed up to develop a stage adaptation of Smiley’s new Maya Angelou memoir, "My Journey With Maya," which details their nearly 30-year friendship.
Smiley was 21 years old when he first met Angelou, who was 58 at the time, in the mid-1980s.
The poet, professor, author, speaker, icon died on May 28, 2014.
A search for a writer to adapt the book is underway. No word on casting yet.
"I haven’t been this excited by a project in a long, long time," Leon said. "I don’t think there is another person like her in my lifetime or in the last 100 years of…
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