Photo Credit: Jen Rosenstein You could say it’s in the genes. While Jennifer Hudson gears up for her Broadway debut as Shug Avery in The Color Purple, her son five-year old David Danie…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 07:11PMPhoto Credit: Peter Cooper I’ve seen many productions of The Tempest in my lifetime. I’ve seen it performed by middle schoolers, high schoolers, and my University even had the ac…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:47PMThe Public Theater has announced casting for Todd Almond’s musical adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. Headlining the cast will be Brandon Victor Dixon as Odysseus, who recentl…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:08AMIf you are in Cleveland or the surrounding area, you are in luck. Aida is coming to a theatre near you! Felicia Boswell (Motown, Memphis), fresh off her run as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha,…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:50AMOn Saturday August 1, The Movement Theatre Company and Radical Evolution partner up to present GO GREEN: Pop Up ! at the Urban Garden Center in Harlem, NY. GO GREEN: Pop Up! is a free pop-…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:34AMYes, you did read that correctly. “Trap Queen” has gone Broadway, well not actually, but Frenchie Davis (RENT) and Wilkie Ferguson (Motown: The Musical, Gershwins’ Porgy …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 07:30PMThere’s an ongoing joke in my family that if I could stay in school forever I would, simply because I love to learn, just not always in the traditional sense. Sometimes it takes beyond…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:50PMFirst Lady Michelle Obama, her mother Marian Robinson, and her two daughters Sasha and Malia, brought their dancing shoes to the July 11 matinee of the hit Broadway show Kinky Boots. Even t…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:04PMAfter months of buzz, the highly anticipated off- Broadway hit musical Hamilton begins Broadway previews July 13. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical is set to officially open on Augu…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:11PMThe stage is dark and offstage you hear voices. Ms. Zora Taylor yells, “I am Mrs. Frankie Lymon!” “No, I am Mrs. Frankie Lymon!,” says Ms. Elizabeth Walters. “N…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:53PMGone are the days of waiting outside the Al Hirschfeld Theatre to try and (often unsuccessfully) win cheap tickets for one of the hottest shows on Broadway, Kinky Boots. Rejoice! Stay in be…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:08AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson was able to capture 100 years of African American life in his riveting, American Century Cycle. The 10 decade-by-decade plays begin in the…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:24PMWhen I first saw advertisements for Hamilton, I remember thinking to myself, “A musical about Alexander Hamilton. Lin Manuel, what are you doing?” Then the casting was revealed, and I di…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:28PMLooking for a great play to see over this week? Look no further than the June Havoc Theatre. Don’t miss Patrice Bell in the last five performances of OFFICE POLITICS.
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