Fergie L. Philippe's career has taken him to Broadway and beyond, but it keeps bringing him back to Arkansas.
Philippe played Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in "Hamilton" on Broadway and also on tour, but he cut his early acting teeth in productions a decade ago at the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre in Conway.
Now, as artist-in-residence at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, he's directing a world-premiere production by the museum's Children's Theatre of "An Unlikely Hero" by Emilio Rodriguez, which runs this weekend and next in the museum's Performing Arts Theatre.
The play, set in a school where having superpowers seems crucial to fitting in, is part of a tripartite commission between the museum, the Metro Theater in St.
