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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:29PMWhen 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:10PMBroadway’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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 07:53PMThe 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:51PMNew 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:48PMJan. 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:16PMThere’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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:10PMNew 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:10AMQueen 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:47PMPhoto 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:59AMThe 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:13AMThe 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 02:38PMIn 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:52AMAdding 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-…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:53PMLeon 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:55PMAt 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:23PM“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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:45AMHaving 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:10PMIn 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:32PMAspiring 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:59PMSecond 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:48AMIt 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, …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:00PMWhen 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:38AMFounder 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:01PMWhen 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:22PMPulitzer 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. …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:45PMHamilton 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:34PMAnnie 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,…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:21PMIn 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:21PM“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…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 08:27PMGrammy- 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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