Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Carly Hughes and Grasan Kingsberry are the latest Broadway stars to be featured in the Broadway Legacy series. Created by actor Christian Dante White (The Book of Mormon, The Scottsboro B…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:02PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
British director Trevor Nunn (former Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and is currently director of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) has run into…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:33PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Actor, director, and producer Tyler Perry has gotten into a conflict with two unions over his stage play, Madea On The Run, which is touring the country. Screen Actors Guild‐American F…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:29PMOn October 22, dance enthusiasts will get an up close and personal look at performances from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre on movie screens nationwide, as a part of “Lincoln Cente…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:55AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Continuing in the tradition of many Broadway actors who give back to their communities, Broadway Serves is an organization created three years ago for those in theatre who want to be active …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:20AMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Operación Pedro Pan was a migration of unaccompanied children from Cuba during the 1960’s when Cuban parents feared indoctrination and the Cuban government taking away their…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:08PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
In a recent interview with Billboard, members of The Roots, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, and Hamilton writer Lin-Manuel Miranda, sat down to discuss…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:51PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
Robert De Niro will revisit the first movie he directed, this time as an off-Broadway musical. The 1993 film, A Bronx Tale, is an adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s acclaimed one-ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:33PM Virgil “Lil O” Gadson is a Broadway actor and dancer who has appeared in NFL commercials, season eight of So You Think You Can Dance, MTV‘s Americas Best Dance Crew, music…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:47AMFriday, July 31, 2015
There is rampant speculation that Beyoncé has been offered the role of Glinda the Good Witch in NBC’s upcoming live production of The Wiz! Although there is no official deal yet,…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:32PMThursday, July 30, 2015
Judy Juanita, an Oakland playwright, was invited by a member of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre staff to the final dress rehearsal of Anna Deavere Smith’s “Notes From the Field: Doing Tim…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:57PMTony and Grammy Award winner Heather Headley took on Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods in a role she thought she would never play- “The Witch”. She hinted at a possible ret…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:26PMTuesday, July 28, 2015
On December 3, NBC will air a live production of The Wiz. While Stephanie Mills has been cast as Aunt Em, there has been rampant speculation about who would play the other roles. A few…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:59PMSunday, July 26, 2015
Unless you’ve been under a rock lately, you’ve heard about Broadway’s new smash musical, Hamilton. It’s being described this way: From bastard orphan to Washington�…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:17AMThursday, July 23, 2015
Jennie Harney, will reprise her award winning role as Pearl Bailey in the musical, PEARL, this week at the Davenport Theatre. Presented as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festiv…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:04PMThursday, July 16, 2015
Many people don’t know the story of the classic hymn or the composer of “Amazing Grace,” but the new musical of the same name seeks to change that. The musical explores th…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:43AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
This summer, you can bring a lunch and head to Bryant Park for a series of free hour-long concerts, where Broadway cast members sing songs from various musicals, and the shows range from The…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:44PMMonday, July 13, 2015
One of the most talked about upcoming Broadway musicals is getting even more star power; Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and band co-founder Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:07PMThursday, July 9, 2015
July 5, 2015 is a rather important day in Broadway history; after 4,308 performances, Alton Fitzgerald White took his final curtain call as the iconic character Mufasa, in The Lion King. Alt…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:07PMAlthough it is 2015, the message captured in the upcoming play, Power: The Rise of Stokely Carmichael, is as eerily applicable today as it was during the time of the Civil Rights Movement i…
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