Fittingly, “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations” starts off with a song, the first of more than 30 packed into the show at Belk Theater Tuesday night. No overture. No exposition.

Turning points in music history are almost always more complicated than they appear at first glance. That's exactly the case with the Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)," which ...

You can never say that Motown’s Berry Gordy didn’t get the most out of his cadre of recording artists. It’s no shock that when those albums hit No. 1 (‘TCB’) and No. 2 (‘Join’) on the album charts, ...

At first glance, the Temptations seem like a perfect choice for a jukebox musical. The vocal group stood among the biggest and brightest acts to emerge from Motown Records, landed in the Rock and Roll ...

Few people can simply pop into a theater and see their life story unfold on stage. Or lay claim to music and lyrics you know by heart just from hearing those first few notes. But then, few people are ...

There is no soul group above the Temptations. With hits like “My Girl,” “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” and “Just My Imagination,” the vocal group from Detroit has cemented itself as an all-time band, ...

This isn’t so much a review as a lament. It concerns the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations, or as people have been calling it, “The ...

Smokey Robinson, original Temptations member Otis Williams, and longtime Temptations manager Shelly Berger made a visit to the upcoming Broadway musical based on the Motown hitmakers Dave Quinn is the ...

The world was changing. Music was changing. Motown was changing. By 1972, the classic Motown sound -- that gorgeous, efficient pop-soul assembly line -- was just about dead. Instead, the music had ...

Bruce Williamson, 49, a long-running voice of The Temptations, has died from coronavirus. The R&B singer died Sunday evening at Mountain View Hospital in Las Vegas, his business manager, Anta Ealy, ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve watched “The Temptations,” a ...

As befits a show about the Temptations, the most infectiously rhythmic of chart-topping R&B groups, “Ain’t Too Proud” keeps time in style. I don’t mean that solely in terms of a beat that makes you ...