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 …
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, �…
Playwright, educator, opera singer, and Queen, Mfoniso Udofia has two plays running at New York Theatre Workshop. *pause*Â TWO PLAYS. In the SAME season!?!? *ends congratulatory gasp* Sojo…
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 regards …
Last 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…
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 f…
Broadway 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, weR…
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…
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…
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 Affai…
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. We al…
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…
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…
And 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…
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…
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, at …
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 …
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 imm…
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…
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 Black c…
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 Wo…
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 lim…
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.…
"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 last one) Speakin…
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 o…