The New Jersey Performing Arts Center Announces In-Person, Live Jazz Performances Beginning in September
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 12, 2021 NJPAC is welcoming live, in-person jazz back to its stage throughout 2021 beginning with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Gregory Porter (Sep 24). The TD Jazz Series continues in the Fall with 'Salsa Meets Jazz' (Sep 25), saxophonist Boney James (Oct 14), and vocal powerhouse duo Tierney Sutton and Ann...
Review: Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones' DUTCHMAN Is a Powerful Punch in the Gut at American Stage
by Peter Nason - July 02, 2022 Led by a visionary, risk-taking director, Erica Sutherlin, this important work will rattle you to your core....
SuperBad Theater Company Announces 2021-2022 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 01, 2021 San Francisco Bay Area's SuperBad Theater Company, a Affiliate Company (Dedrick Weathersby, Executive Director) and Sacramento's The Guild Theater (St. HOPE Academy) have announced the titles for their collaborative inaugural upcoming 2021-2022 season....
Virtual Theatre Today: Monday, February 22- with Santino Fontana, Lynn Nottage and More!
by Nicole Rosky - February 22, 2021 Today (February 22) in live streaming: Santino Fontana sings with Seth Rudetsky, Patrick Page takes on Shakespeare's villains, and more!...
Theater Resources Unlimited Announces Cast for Gala
by Marissa Tomeo - March 12, 2022 Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces a star-studded cast for this year's 2022 TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices!, a virtual gala scheduled for Sunday, March 20, 2022 from 5pm to 7pm. Presented with generous sponsorship from R.K. Greene and The Storyline Project, Patrick Blake of Rhymes Over Beats, Me...
Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Soulpepper
by Ilana Lucas - May 15, 2025 Michael R. Jackson’s A STRANGE LOOP is a striking text and meta-text, calculatedly raw and messy, archly vulnerable, and sacredly profane....
Interview: Destyne R. Miller of SEVEN GUITARS at August Wilson In The Park
by Armando Urdiales - July 31, 2024 Read our interview with Destyne R. Miller of SEVEN GUITARS at August Wilson In The Park....
VIDEO: Watch Leslie Odom Jr. & the Cast of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI in 'Behind The Scene'
by Sarah Leiber - February 16, 2021 The actors in the film, Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Kingsley Ben-Adir, take the audience “Behind the Scene” in this once-in-a-lifetime convergence of legends in which Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown all meet over the course of an evening together to debate and celebr...
BWW Feature: Pandemic-Informed Art Is Acceptable, It's Valuable, And It's Just Fine
by Stephen Mosher - July 14, 2021 A wise man once said that art isn't easy. Well, life isn't either, and since life inspires art, the performers of the small venue circuit of New York City may be leaning into the pandemic for source material, for a while. Or for as long as they need to....
SuperBad Theater Company Announces 2021-2022 Season
by Stephi Wild - June 12, 2021 San Francisco Bay Area's SuperBad Theater Company, a Affiliate Company (Dedrick Weathersby, Executive Director) and Sacramento's The Guild Theater (St. HOPE Academy) have announced the titles for their collaborative inaugural upcoming 2021-2022 season....
Free Screening of LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S BLACK & BLUES Comes to The 12th Annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival
by Stephi Wild - November 07, 2023 The 12th Annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival will present a FREE screening of the Imagine Documentaries and Apple TV+ critically-acclaimed film, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, on Wednesday, November 15, 7:00 pm, at The Newark Museum of Art....
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts Present IN CASE YOU HADN'T HEARD
by A.A. Cristi - February 04, 2021 Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts, in partnership with Eastville Community Historical Society and the Southampton African American Museum, is pleased to announce the online world premiere of In Case You Hadn't Heard: A Conversation Between America's Past And Its Promise, a provocat...
THE COLORED MUSEUM Comes to Sankofa African American Theatre Company
by Stephi Wild - May 08, 2025 Sankofa African American Theatre Company and Open Stage have announced their co-production of The Colored Museum, the bold and provocative satire by celebrated playwright George C. Wolfe. ...
Virtual Theatre This Weekend: June 5-6- with Alex Newell, Heather Headley, and More!
by Nicole Rosky - June 05, 2021 Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, June 5-6, 2021....
VIDEO: Watch Leslie Odom Jr. & the Cast of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI in 'Behind The Scene'
by Sarah Leiber - February 16, 2021 The actors in the film, Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Kingsley Ben-Adir, take the audience “Behind the Scene” in this once-in-a-lifetime convergence of legends in which Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown all meet over the course of an evening together to debate and celebr...
Review: FLY at Hotchner Theatre on the Washington University Campus
by James Lindhorst - February 18, 2024 Edwards script if filled with humor but it does not shy away from taking on the current realities of unfairness, inequality, and discrimination in the United States today. His script is layered and complex. The text is foreboding with an admonitory tone, and Edwards realism reaches his audience beca...
The Late Ones Drop New Video 'Troubled Streets' On Easy Star Records
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 14, 2020 Conscious reggae/hip-hop hybrid band The Late Ones just released their new EP, Lately, via Easy Star Records. ...
The Leah Ryan Fund Announces Winner Of “The Leah”: GLORIA MAJULE'S CULTURE SHOCK
by A.A. Cristi - May 24, 2023 The Leah Ryan Fund has announced the winner of the 2023 Leah Prize, Gloria Majule's Culture Shock. Majule's new play concerns two African students, Zahra from Tanzania and Hawi from Kenya, who start school in an Ivy League institution. ...
Theater Resources Unlimited Presents 'TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices!'
by Stephi Wild - March 11, 2022 Presented with generous sponsorship from R.K. Greene and The Storyline Project, Patrick Blake of Rhymes Over Beats, Merrie L. Davis of Next Act 2 Follow, Neal Rubinstein/Dangerous, Judith Estrine of Prism Stage Company, Stephanie Rosenberg/Financial Advisor at Wells Fargo Advisors and Judith Manoche...
Review: A SOLDIER'S PLAY at AMANSON THEATRE
by Tracey Paleo - May 30, 2023 The production values and cast of the Ahmanson Theatre's, A SOLDIER'S PLAY, are absolutely stellar. But, I had to wonder, is this story 'enough' for the younger African-American audiences of today?...
Pianist Awadagin Pratt to Perform at 92NY in May
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 06, 2025 The 92nd Street Y, New York will present Awadagin Pratt, piano at Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here! ...
BWW Review: THE LATRELL SHOW Is an Uneven but Ultimately Powerful One-Man Show
by Harker Jones - June 04, 2021 Just when it reaches the point where it’s almost unbearable, the show takes a hard turn, cutting to a frustrated office worker named Jeremiah, who is in a psychiatric session trying to process his rage at living in an America where Black lives do not matter to everyone and where being gay is conside...
Asolo Rep Announces New Commission to Playwright Ty Greenwood
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 14, 2020 Asolo Repertory theatre has announced that its first Ground Floor Playwright Commission will go to emerging Black playwright Ty Greenwood for a new work inspired by writer and activist James Baldwin....
Pianist Awadagin Pratt to Perform at 92NY in May
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 06, 2025 The 92nd Street Y, New York will present Awadagin Pratt, piano at Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here! ...
SuperBad Theater Company Announces 2021-2022 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 15, 2021 San Francisco Bay Area's SuperBad Theater Company, a Affiliate Company (Dedrick Weathersby, Executive Director) and Sacramento's The Guild Theater (St. HOPE Academy) have announced the titles for their collaborative inaugural upcoming 2021-2022 season.... |