NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts will present the The Minstrel Show Revisited, a reworking of Donald Byrd‘s 1991 Bessie Award-winning dance/theater production. The show tak…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:49PMI remember over the summer entering the Hamilton lottery when it was at the Public Theater, and not getting in, no biggie. I thought of it this way- if I had seen it and loved it but the cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 07:55AMWoodie King’s New Federal Theatre presents a 50th anniversary revival of Martin Duberman’s In White America, which tracks American race relations from colonial times through the …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:55PMYes, you read that title correctly. Stars of Broadway’s Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, as well as Questlove will be featured on tonight’s Hip…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:55PMAmazing Grace, how sweet the sound. And how sweet it was, the musical based on the beloved song that we all know and love is coming to a close. The news is bittersweet, as it was the first…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:03PMOn October 1st at 9 pm, PBS THIRTEEN aired The New Group’s production of Rasheeda Speaking, written by Joel Drake Johnson. This was a part of the collaboration between the net…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:44AMMark your calendars! The 2016 Tony Awards ceremony now has a date! The American Theatre Wing’s 70th Annual Tony Awards will air on CBS on Sunday, June 5, 2016 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delay…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:48PMIt’s no secret that the hit musical Hamilton was inspired by the 1969 Tony-winning musical 1776, he quotes the musical in his hit show, but when it comes to casting the roles have bee…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:22PMAfrican-American Shakespeare Company (San Fransisco, CA) recently announced its 2015-2016 season entitled: Love, Satire, and Betrayal. This will be their 21st season under the artistic l…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:08PMLet the church say “Amen.” I had just left the grimy streets of New York City, and as soon as we walked through those theatre doors I felt like I just walked into my own COGIC ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:32PMYou have heard of Dreamgirls, Wicked and In The Heights, but there are always a few musicals you leave off of your “My Top Ten Musicals of All Time” list. But fret no more, Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:07PMViola Davis and Sanaa Lathan both recently touched on the subject of the marginalization of Black actors in Hollywood, which led us here at Broadway Black to think, is Broadway any differen…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:56PMIt’s the most wonderful time of the year and it’s that time again! Back by popular demand for the sixth year in a row, Debbie Allen Dance Academy Presents The Hot Chocolate Nutc…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:50PMMilwaukee Repertory Theater is getting ready to launch the Quadracci Powerhouse season with their highly anticipated production of the Tony Award-winning musical, Dreamgirls. After producin…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:37PMEnsemble Studio Theatre LA presents the world premiere of Watching O.J., a new play by David McMillan and directed by Keith Szarabajka. The production opens Saturday, October 3, 2015 and wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:46PMPublic Theatre has recently announced a casting switch: Marc Damon Johnson will replace Tony nominee John Earl Jelks in the world premiere of Barbecue — though no reason has been gi…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:04PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) recently released their list of productions for the 2015-16 season. The list includes dynamic dramas and wonderful comedies by Sam Shepard and David Lind…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:39PMThe Second Stage Theatre Company has announced casting for the upcoming New York premiere of Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews‘ new musical Invisible Thread directed by Tony Award winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:17PMI had just finished my first day of Performing Arts teaching in Brooklyn and was excited to be around “grown-ups” to see Whorl Inside A Loop at Second Stage Theatre. It was open…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:12PMAfter taking Broadway by storm, the hit musical Hamilton is looking to wreak havoc in the West End in 2017 as well, according to a report in London’s Evening Standard newspaper. W…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:47PMThe world premiere of Barbecue, written by Obie Award winner Robert O’Hara, is set to premiere at The Public Theater this fall. Directed by Kent Gash (Miss Evers’ Boys), Barbecue b…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:58PMTheater for the New City: Dream Up Festival presents the world premiere of Sister’s Keeper by Cordelia Donovan and Terri Jones Salter, only September 10 – September 14. There�…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:43PMBroadway Black is here to provide you a look inside the highly anticipated world premiere of Whorl Inside a Loop. The production, which stars Sherie Rene Scott, is now in performances at …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:27PMFresh off a week of PD (Professional Development) for my training to be a Performing Arts teacher in Brooklyn I made sure I made time to see a show I heard about through twitter a few days a…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:20PMThe Crucible is coming back to Broadway and Tony Award winner Sophie Okonedo (A Raisin in the Sun) was recently announced to take the lead as “Elizabeth Proctor”. The highly popu…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:42PMIn 1906 on the campus of Cornell University, seven Black men created Alpha Phi Alpha, the first African-American Greek Letter Organization. After being faced with the inequalities of the fra…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:59PMWe are familiar with African art in the form of Zimbabwean contemporary visual artist Kudzanai Chiurai, whose art challenges African regimes and comments on the nature of xenophobia. Ther…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:01PMThis month, New Brooklyn Theatre explores gripping stories of repressed histories and the fear of bringing children into unjust societies with the New York premiere of Lynn Nottage‘…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:41PMAre you a huge Broadway fan? Did you ever dream of becoming a Broadway Producer but don’t have thousands and thousands of dollars to invest? Standing Room Capital, a private online me…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:32PM“So long, farewell to you my friend. Goodbye for now until we meet again.” In the words of Out of The Box, it is almost time to bid farewell to one of our favorite Broadway Black…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:28PMPhoto 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…
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