39 stories 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…
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 spot…
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 starring as v…
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 Phylicia…
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 …
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, Virgini…
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 incl…
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, City Ce…
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 artists…
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…
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…
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. Dail…
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 est…
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-…
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 Wilk…
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…
"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 Amer…
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 …
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…
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 f…
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 expe…
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, th…
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…
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 Cel…
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…
