A smash hit Off Broadway, this wildly entertaining show will need all the help it can get to attract mainstream audiences, though the late addition of producers Jay-Z and Will and Jada Pinke…
The show's producers took a huge risk bringing a show with a relatively narrow niche appeal to Broadway. But in spite of its overflowing theatricality, "Fela!" falls short of providing a sol…
The songs, with Fela's potent pidgin-poetry in subtitles, are a jubilant, subtle mixture of Afro-Caribbean rhythm, jazz brass, Yoruban chant and R&B. But they were never meant to carry a sto…
Bill T. Jones takes on the life and music of an Afrobeat giant.
The award-winning Broadway musical Fela, Harlems Hue Man Bookstore and the Arts and Entertainment Task Force of the National Association of Black Journalists NABJ have joined forces to bring…
Dance-driven musical presents bold portrait of Nigerian activist
If any musician were to warrant a jukebox musical right now, it would be the one with the moxie to release an album called "Black President" and the chops to back it up.
There’s never been a biographical musical quite like 'Fela!’, which opens in London tonight after winning praise and awards on Broadway. It tells the story of Fela Kuti, polygami…
The National Theatre production of Fela!, the musical celebrating the life of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti, will be broadcast around the U.K. and the world as part of the NT Live…
What it lacks in structure and concision "Fela!" makes up for in heat, energy and sensuality.
... one of the most energetic, thrilling, and exciting musicals that never delivers either thrills or excitement.
But, oh, that energy.