Boston Children's Chorus Partners With Castle Of Our Skins and Center For Arabic Culture
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 18, 2022 Boston Children's Chorus has announced a new partnership with Castle of our Skins, an arts institution fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music, and the Center for Arabic Culture, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote Arabic Culture and the Arab-Americ...
FRIGID New York Will Present 14th Annual The Fire This Time Festival in January 2023
by Stephi Wild - November 07, 2022 FRIGID New York will present the 14th Annual The Fire This Time Festival at The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003), January 16-29, 2023. ...
Full Cast Announced for AS YOU LIKE IT @sohoplace Starring Martha Plimpton & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 03, 2022 Full casting is announced for William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, directed by Josie Rourke, with a musical score by Michael Bruce, @sohoplace, the first new build West End theatre to open in 50 years....
The REcreate Agency and Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo Present BLUEPRINTS, 12 - 17 June
by A.A. Cristi - May 24, 2023 Blueprints is the debut full-length play from Brummie writer Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo, opening at the Pleasance, London this June. This Afro-futurist play is a Black love story, where one couple's relationship sees the personal, political and historical collide in a not-too-distant UK, where knowledge ...
EDINBURGH 2023: BLUEPRINTS Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 16, 2023 BWW catches up with Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo to chat about bringing Blueprints to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....
The Apollo Theater Announces Fall/Winter 2022 Season Featuring Camille A. Brown, Fat Joe & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 23, 2022 The Apollo Theater has announced details of its fall/winter 2022 season titled The Next Movement. The Apollo has long been a place of dynamic energy and forward motion; this season, the theater honors that longstanding tradition through a series of performances and programs that look to the future....
Cast Announced for LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 25, 2023 Steppenwolf Theatre Company is continuing its 47th season with the Chicago premiere of Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ Last Night and the Night Before, a powerful, poetic exploration of what it takes to create a future from a past you long to forget....
The Apollo Theater Announces Fall/Winter 2022 Season Featuring Camille A. Brown, Fat Joe & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 23, 2022 The Apollo Theater has announced details of its fall/winter 2022 season titled The Next Movement. The Apollo has long been a place of dynamic energy and forward motion; this season, the theater honors that longstanding tradition through a series of performances and programs that look to the future....
Seattle Theatre Group to Present serpentwithfeet's HEART OF BRICK in November
by Blair Ingenthron - September 25, 2023 “Heart of Brick” tells the story of two men finding themselves and falling in love in a gay dance hall and captures the multi-generational spirit of the Black queer community. Get event and ticket information here!...
A.I.M By Kyle Abraham 2023 Homecoming Gala Honoring Debra Martin Chase And Theaster Gates Draws Media And Art World Luminaries
by Michael Major - October 04, 2023 A.I.M by Kyle Abraham 2023 Homecoming Gala Honoring Debra Martin Chase and Theaster Gates brings together media and art world luminaries. Attendees included White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Emmy and Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth....
Camille A. Brown & Dancers Trilogy Presented At Two Iconic NYC Organizations
by A.A. Cristi - August 03, 2022 The Apollo and The Joyce Theater has announced that they are partnering together to present a cross-town celebration of three dance and theater works, known collectively as The Trilogy, by award-winning choreographer & director Camille A. Brown, October 25 through November 5, 2022. ...
EDINBURGH 2023: BLUEPRINTS Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 16, 2023 BWW catches up with Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo to chat about bringing Blueprints to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....
Dom Flemons Releases New Album 'Traveling Wildfire'
by Michael Major - March 24, 2023 Produced by Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Dropkick Murphys) and recorded at Los Angeles’ Kingsize Soundlabs, Traveling Wildfire is Flemons’ most personal album to-date as he refocuses on songwriting—reflecting on recent epiphanies and spiritual evolution as well as the current social climate....
IABD & Collage Dance Collective to Present 34th Annual International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 16, 2024 The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) and Collage Dance Collective will honor the Bluff City Cluster of the LINKS Incorporated, The Jenkins Family Foundation, and Tommie-Waheed Evans at the 34th Annual International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance. ...
HBO Acquires GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT Documentary Film
by Michael Major - August 29, 2023 From directors and producers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson (“American Promise,” “Stateless”), producer Tommy Oliver (HBO’s “40 Years A Prisoner,” “Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss”), and executive producers Taraji P. Henson and Codie Elaine Oliver, the film premiered in January at the Sundance Film ...
Dom Flemons Debuts New Song 'It's Cold Inside'
by Michael Major - March 09, 2023 Produced by Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Dropkick Murphys) and recorded at Los Angeles’ Kingsize Soundlabs, Traveling Wildfire is Flemons’ most personal album to-date as he refocuses on songwriting. Watch the music video directed, produced and edited by Weird Life Films now!...
Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at The Kennedy Center
by Martrese Meachum - February 09, 2023 What did our critic think of ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at The Kennedy Center?...
Live Nation Urban Announces Black History Month Event Series 'Afro-Renaissance'
by Michael Major - February 08, 2023 Live Nation Urban, in collaboration with Live Nation’s BE-Nation internal employee resource group, have launched Live Nation Entertainment’s company-wide Black History Month celebration – AFRO-RENAISSANCE – a multi-event series across six cities comprising of artist showcases through different enter...
Queer|Art Unveils Winner Of 2023 Illuminations Grant For Black Trans Women Visual Artists
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 08, 2023 Queer|Art has revealed the winner of the 2023 Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. Find out who received this prestigious award....
OLN Theatre Of The Air Presents BLACK LOVE: LET'S TALK ABOUT IT
by Stephi Wild - February 01, 2023 Ozark Living Newspaper Theatre of the Air will record its fifth episode, 'Black Love: Let's Talk About It' in front of a live audience on Saturday, February 11th at 7:00 PM at New Deal Studios and Gallery, 2003 Louisiana Street, in Little Rock. ...
A.I.M By Kyle Abraham Is Coming To USC in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 12, 2023 Visions and Voices, USC's premiere arts and humanities program, will present the acclaimed New York-based contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham at historic Bovard Auditorium on Wednesday, February 15, 2023....
Paines Plough Reveals 2023 Plans
by Stephi Wild - May 12, 2023 This Summer Paines Plough's portable pop-up theatre venue Roundabout will return to Summerhall at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. During the month of August, the award-winning, in-the-round auditorium will host two new co-productions from Paines Plough alongside a programme of visiting artists presentin...
Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington Present K-I-S-S-I-N-G in March
by Stephi Wild - January 24, 2023 Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington have announced the cast and creative team of K-I-S-S-I-N-G, their co-production of the world premiere play written by Massachusetts playwright and Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lenelle Moïse and directed by The Porch's Co-Producing Artistic Director Daw...
Writers Revealed For Shakespeare's Globe's BURNT AT THE STAKE, OR THE WHOLE OF THE TRUTH
by Stephi Wild - August 22, 2023 Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the 13 writers premiering new work in Burnt at the Stake, or The Whole of the Truth on 13 October in the Globe Theatre. This evening of storytelling revolves around one provocation to these writers: If no-one knew you had said it, what would you say? ...
Soul Rep Theatre Company Presents TRAVISVILLE in December
by Stephi Wild - October 25, 2022 In December, Soul Rep Theatre Company will kick-off its 2022-2023 season – TO DALLAS, WITH LOVE – with Dallas native, celebrated television/film actor and playwright, William Jackson Harper’s searing drama, TRAVISVILLE, inspired by Jim Schutze’s book, “The Accommodation.” ... |