Little Richard: I Am Everything

It’s the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator and originator, Richard Penniman. Through archive and performance, we see Richard’s complicated inner world, unspooling the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. Family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, reveal how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard pinballed between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.