Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Power is back in full swing and in its fourth season. Omari Hardwick is still fine as hell. Anika Noni Rose is giving her best praise in her role this season. It goes without saying that we …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:23PMSunday, June 25, 2017
Earlier this week, Jeronimo Yanez joined the list of police officers who have been acquitted of charges linked to the shooting deaths of Black men. Yanez is now a free man, while Phi…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:12PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
Playwright, educator, opera singer, and Queen, Mfoniso Udofia has two plays running at New York Theatre Workshop. *pause* TWO PLAYS. In the SAME season!?!? *ends congratulatory gasp* Sojour…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:22AMMonday, May 8, 2017
So, I have a question. In the same line of thought as “innocent until proven guilty,” do we grant the assumption of positive intent in our expectations of our brothers and sister in rega…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 07:08PMLast winter, we reported on Sojourners by playwright Mfoniso Udofia, a new play about a Nigerian family who has come to America with the goal of earning a college education, starting a famil…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:37AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959 and later received two staged revivals in 2004 and 2014. Raisin, the musical adaptation of the play, won the Tony Award…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:18AMBroadway couple Audra McDonald and Will Swenson will host the 83rd Annual Drama League Awards. What a perfect selection, it’s almost like we came up with it! All jokes aside, we’…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:43AMThursday, April 27, 2017
Part of the magic of live theatre is the suspension of reality achieved by sitting in a dark room with strangers as you’re transported to another world. You’re relieved of cleari…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 07:00PMMonday, April 24, 2017
We recently caught up with Jazmine Sullivan at The HeLa Project, a multimedia exhibition inspired by the HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Like the rest of us, Jazmine is in aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:06AMThursday, April 20, 2017
New York City, center of the universe and smorgasbord of culture, is unsurprisingly revered as the ultimate city of immigrants. Each year, the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Aff…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:06AMMonday, March 27, 2017
I’ll never forget where I was when I found out Donald Trump pulled the scam of the century and became the leader of the free world. I don’t think we’ll ever forget that moment in time.…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:15PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
After putting up his heels and ending his run as “Lola” in the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots, YouTube star Todrick Hall heads back to Oz. Only this time, the yellow brick road s…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:16AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Right off the heels of the most exhausting* time to be woke for those of us blessed and basking in our best melanin lives–Black History Month–is March. March is Women’s His…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:57PMAnd before these twins get here, hip-hop mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter scored yet another deal securing Blue Ivy and Future Beyonce 1 & 2* coins and coins more abundantly. Billb…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:13AMMonday, March 6, 2017
On March 2, 2017, I saw Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. On March 3, 2017, I woke up still perplexed by the tour de force I witnessed… but maybe… in a good way? Let…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:07PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Alex Newell played “Mary” in a one night only concert of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar, produced by Torya Beard, Morgan James, and Richard Amelius, Monday,…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:24PMMonday, January 16, 2017
Nothing ever happened underground in Louisiana. As part of A Celebration of Tony Kushner, Washington DC’s Roundhouse Theater is taking us underground to 1963 Lake Charles, LA with its …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:06PMFriday, January 13, 2017
You know, we have a lot of reasons to be thankful by way of London. Afternoon tea. Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of The Color Purple. Tony Award Winner Cynthia Erivo. And now, an i…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:22PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
The streets of 45th may no longer be paved in gold, but the we continue to see full-blown streaks of the silver lining in life post Shuffle Along. Tony nominated Brandon Victor Dixon, who i…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:28AMThursday, July 28, 2016
Savion Glover and Reg E. Gaines join forces to take us back to 1996 when Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk was winning Tony Awards and taking audiences on a ride that only an all Bla…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:57PMSaturday, July 23, 2016
They’ll remember syncopation. They’ll remember them stomping feet. Well here at Broadway Black, we’ll make sure you remember more than that. Listening to “They Won&…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:47AMThursday, July 21, 2016
Notifying all family members, children, and baes. Looks like we’re going to the movie theater this Christmas! The film adaptation of August Wilson’s Fences will open on December 16 for a…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:02AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Isaiah Johnson is set to lead a reading of Reginald: From Baltimore to Billionaire, which is based on the life of Reginald F. Lewis. In case you missed this day in history class, Reginald F.…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:02PMThursday, July 14, 2016
“They think me Macbeth, ambition is my folly. I’m a polymath, a pain in the..” Okay, okay, okay. You’re tired of the Hamilton references? I’ll “Take A Break.” (That was the las…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:43AMMonday, July 11, 2016
Alton Sterling. 37. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Selling CDs outside a convenience store. Philandro Castille. 32. St. Paul, Minnesota. Driving with a broken tail light. No configuration of wo…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:10PMFriday, July 1, 2016
There’s nothing like summer in the city! The sun is finally out. Our Broadway Black favorites are now Tony winners. Audra is still liking our tweets. Motown is coming back to Broadway.…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:39PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Tamar Davis has a voice that makes you want to sit down, shut up, and listen. It doesn’t glide, it soars. It isn’t bound by a genre, it’s unique in style and choice. We recently had …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:00AMSunday, June 19, 2016
All good things must come to an end. In a heartfelt and personal Facebook Live video, Leslie Odom Jr. addressed a couple of things us #Hamilfans have been wondering. Yes, it’s true. July 9…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:46PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Heather Headley. HEATHER! Ma’am!? Last week, Broadway’s The Color Purple released the first official footage of Heather Headley as “Shug Avery” in the current Tony-no…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:09PMKaraoke has got to be one of the most fun past times and, well, karaoke in the car ups the enjoyability a couple notches. It’s no wonder Carpool Karaoke has become a signature part of Tony…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:36PMThursday, May 19, 2016
photos courtesy of Vivian Reed Eclectic. Elegant. Entertainer. I recently sat down with two-time Tony nominee, Vivian Reed, who is currently in residency at the Metropolitan Room serving…
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