Robert Townsend, the triple-threat creative force behind "Hollywood Shuffle"--the 1987 groundbreaking satire of the movie business--is caught in a Sunday evening TV shuffle.

[This story contains mild spoilers to The Bear season two.]. For as long as Ayo Edebiri can remember, Robert Townsend has been a part of her life. “He literally was my dad for a period,” says ...

Robert Townsend discussed his career, including his groundbreaking 1987 feature "Hollywood Shuffle," as well as the Oscar nominations ...

Robert Townsend has never stopped moving. For a recent Zoom interview, he is on his phone from his (parked) car so he can go for one of his regular walks around a local L.A. lake once he’s finished.

Robert Townsend needed no introduction, at least not for Eric Garcia. The “Kaleidoscope” creator counted himself a fan of Townsend’s since the director’s 1987 feature debut, “Hollywood ...

Townsend wrote the film, his directorial debut, with a pre-In Living Color Keenen Ivory Wayans, in reaction to the trials they both faced as up-and-coming Black actors.But where others would’ve ...

Robert Townsend: It was a lot of fun, because we made a game out of it. I came out of the theater, acting exercises and improv, so when I started to do Hollywood Shuffle, I took all of that ...

If B.A.P.S. ever gets the remake treatment or a sequel, Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B both want dibs on starring in the flick. The 1997 buddy comedy was directed by Robert Townsend and starred ...