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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

BeBe Winans’ ‘Born For This’ Set For World Premiere by Leah Marché

Announced more than a year ago and a musical in the making for as many as nine years, Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story will make its world premiere April 13, at the Alliance Theatre in A…

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Intiman Theatre Fest Features Black Women Playwrights by Leah Marché

When it opens May 24, the 2016 Intiman Theatre Festival – in its fifth year – will place the greater Seattle area in the center of the national conversation about race and equity with a …

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Friday, April 8, 2016

April 9: Audra McDonald On OWN’s Where Are They Now by Leah Marché

Broadway’s beloved queen, Audra McDonald, will be featured on “Oprah: Where Are They Now?” Saturday, April 9. Of course, right now she’s on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre starrin…

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

What Happened: Arsenic And Old Lace With Allen, Rashad by Leah Marché

The 2015-2016 Broadway season will soon come to a close, but the Otis Sallid-spearheaded revival of Joseph Kesserling’s Arsenic and Old Lace, set to feature sisters Debbie Allen and Phylic…

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Monday, January 25, 2016

Ruben Santiago-Hudson Enlivens First Encores! Unscripted by Leah Marché

New York City Center, in partnership with The Jerome L. Green Performance Space at WNYC, presented the first of its Encores! Unscripted live-streamed talkback series with Tony Award winners …

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Rest Well: Billie Allen Defied Barriers On Stage, Screen by Leah Marché

Jan. 13, 2016, would have marked the 91st birthday of one of America’s most significant women in theatre: Billie Alllen. The dancer, actor, director and philanthropist from Richmond, Virgi…

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Monday, January 11, 2016

First-Ever BroadwayCon Gives Theatre Fans Ultimate Experience by Leah Marché

There’s no place like Broadway, and BroadwayCon is a place where theatre fans can converge with artists to celebrate shows and the people who bring them to life. Highlights of the event in…

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Ruben Santiago-Hudson Discusses Broadway’s Musical Legacy for City Center Encores! Unscripted by Leah Marché

New York City Center continues its work of “bringing the backstage center stage” with City Center Encores! Unscripted. Partnering with The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC, Cit…

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Queen Latifah & Mary J. Blige Set To Empower With The Wiz by Leah Marché

Queen Latifah may be portraying the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful Wizard of Oz and Mary J. Blige the Wicked Witch of the West for NBC’s “The Wiz Live!,” but in real life both a…

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Presents Morisseau’s Sunset Baby by Leah Marché

Photo by Kristi Jan Hoover Dominique Morisseau is considered one of the most exciting young voices in American theatre. Believing wholeheartedly in the power and strength of community has on…

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

New York Pops Celebrates Black Women In Jazz With Montego Glover, Capathia Jenkins, Sy Smith by Leah Marché

The New York Pops will present a concert at Carnegie Hall like no other November 13, when its 78-piece orchestra celebrates groundbreaking Black women jazz artists. Led by music director and…

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Monday, November 9, 2015

‘You Can’t Win’ A Win-Win For NBC’s The Wiz by Leah Marché

The closer the days get to Dec. 3, the excitement builds for NBC’s The Wiz Live (people are talking sleepovers; and by people… adults) as well as the Broadway revival set for 2016-17. Da…

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Friday, November 6, 2015

New Musical By Phillip Howze Reaches Trans/Queer Youth by Leah Marché

In America, it is estimated that 1.6 million youth are homeless each year and that up to 40% of them identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Yet, LGBT youth represent an estimat…

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Showtime Develops Adaptation Of Fernanda Coppel’s King Liz by Leah Marché

Adding to the sports-themed shows populating the land of television comes the adaptation of playwright Fernanda Coppel’s King Liz for Showtime. The play, which had an extended run at Off-…

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Monday, November 2, 2015

Leon Addison Brown Shares Stage With Bruce Willis, Laurie Metclaf In Misery by Leah Marché

Leon Addison Brown will die on Broadway multiple times for 16 weeks. He plays “Buster,” the sheriff hell-bent on finding author Paul Sheldon and saving him from his Number One Fan Annie …

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Call For Action: 3 Major New York Black Theatres De-Funded by Leah Marché

At the Harlem Arts Alliance monthly meeting Oct. 5, it was announced that three of the oldest Black theatres in New York were de-funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. H…

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Monday, October 26, 2015

Playwrights Morisseau, Jacobs-Jenkins To Receive Steinberg Award by Leah Marché

“My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.” That was playwright August Wilson, considered one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century and the Black …

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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Terri White Says Farewell To The Live Concert Stage by Leah Marché

Having performed in musicals since she was 8, Tony-nominated actor Terri White takes a bow from the live concert stage. White, 68, announced her farewell when she opened the ninth season of …

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Friday, October 23, 2015

The First Noel Gears Up For A Harlem Christmas At The Apollo by Leah Marché

In partnership with Apollo Theater, The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents the world premiere of The First Noel for the winter season. Performances will be from Dec 13-31, with previews De…

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Friday, October 16, 2015

Disney Multi-City Casting Call: Are You The Next Simba or Aladdin? by Leah Marché

Aspiring performers looking to make their big break in Broadway and beyond can bring their jazz and tap shoes or best 16 bars to Disney Theatrical Productions’ multi-city open casting call…

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Veteran Black Artists Reflect On Artistic Lives In INSIGHT/SECOND SIGHT by Leah Marché

Second sight is defined as “the supposed ability to perceive future or distant events.” While there is no scientific evidence that second sight exists, the insight from copious years of …

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Hold The Applause: Theatre Etiquette From James Earl Jones & Cicely Tyson by Leah Marché

It is opening day of D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gin Game, starring legendary thespians Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones, and you can forget the applause. Entrance applause, …

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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Adesola Osakalumi Dances Among All-Star Cast Of In Your Arms by Leah Marché

When combining the talents of artists that together have garnered 18 Tonys, four Pulitzer Prizes, six Pulitizer finalist distinctions, three Emmys and two Academy Awards for a musical, the r…

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Walk Tall Girl Productions Celebrated 15 Years With A Taste of My World by Leah Marché

Founder and president Marcia Pendelton, of Walk Tall Girl Productions, celebrated her company’s 15th anniversary Sept. 28, when she presented A Taste of My World: An Anniversary Celeb…

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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Shuffle Along Is Getting Ready To Go Into Full Swing! by Leah Marché

When the jazzy Shuffle Along opened on Broadway in May 1921, I imagine the thrill could have been likened to the 2008 U.S. Election night. A night where the world experienced Democratic Part…

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work Series Returns by Leah Marché

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the master writer chair at New York’s The Public Theater, launched a new season of her “Watch Me Work” series Sept. 14. …

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An in-depth look at Leslie Odom Jr, Aaron Burr in Hamilton by Leah Marché

Hamilton opened on Aug. 6, Leslie Odom Jr.’s birthday. His birthday wishes must be coming true as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical has met with success and praise with Odom…

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Kyle Beltran Stars In The Flick At Barrow Street Theatre by Leah Marché

Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize- and Obie Award-winning The Flick re-opened Off-Broadway at Barrow Street Theatre in May with the original cast and creative team. A new cast has take over,…

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Keith Josef Adkins Tells Central Park History In The People Before The Park by Leah Marché

In March, Keith Josef Adkins was one of four finalists at the 11th Annual Spring Reading Series during the 2015 Premiere Stages Play Festival hosted by Kean University. He left the event as …

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Wallis Kicks Off Season With Denzel Washington Livestream by Leah Marché

“Hello, Denzel” has become a greeting for the epitome of sexy, smooth-natured manhood – in honor of actor Denzel Washington. On Sept. 17, fans of the 60-year-old star will be greeted…

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Valisia LeKae Launches Adventures of Lillian Kate Web Series by Leah Marché

Grammy- and Tony-nominated Valisia LeKae has gone from starring as “Diana Ross” in Motown: The Musical, when it opened at Lunt-Fonanne Theatre in April 2013 to manifesting herself as Lil…

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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
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Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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