Queen Latifah stars as legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in this HBO Films presentation, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dee Rees from a screenplay by Dee Rees and Christopher Cleveland & Bettina Gilois. With a story by Dee Rees and Horton Foote, the film focuses on Smith
PENT UP: A REVENGE DANCE Comes To PS122 On 2/10-22
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 27, 2009
Bessie Award-winner and beloved downtown performer Okwui Okpokwasili spins a modern folktale. A daughter attempts to construct a coherent past out of her mother's cryptic signals and signifiers. Interweaving legacy and the loss of old tongues, rituals and original songs, and a good old attempt to ge...
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 27, 2009
Bessie Award-winner and beloved downtown performer Okwui Okpokwasili spins a modern folktale. A daughter attempts to construct a coherent past out of her mother's cryptic signals and signifiers. Interweaving legacy and the loss of old tongues, rituals and original songs, and a good old attempt to ge...
'THE DEVIL'S MUSIC' Opens at New Brunswick Playhouse 3/3
by Reynard Loki - October 23, 2008
Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith will be performed at the New Brunswick Playhouse, running March 3?29. Miche Braden, who portrayed Bessie Smith in the previous productions of the play, will recreate the title role once more....
by Reynard Loki - October 23, 2008
Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith will be performed at the New Brunswick Playhouse, running March 3?29. Miche Braden, who portrayed Bessie Smith in the previous productions of the play, will recreate the title role once more....
Stockard Channing Re-Awakens Odets' Classic
by Robert Gould - September 21, 2007
The awakening of members of a Jewish family in 1930s New York serves to represent the awakening of the American nation to a world of social change in Clifford Odets' ground-breaking drama, 'Awake and Sing'. Michael Attenborough's revival at the Almeida theatre recreates the atmosphere of this classi...
by Robert Gould - September 21, 2007
The awakening of members of a Jewish family in 1930s New York serves to represent the awakening of the American nation to a world of social change in Clifford Odets' ground-breaking drama, 'Awake and Sing'. Michael Attenborough's revival at the Almeida theatre recreates the atmosphere of this classi...
Photo Flash: NYMF's River's End
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2006
The New York Musical Theater Festival will present River's End, a new musical with book and lyrics by Cheryl Coons and music by Chuck Larkin, from September 21st through October 1st....
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2006
The New York Musical Theater Festival will present River's End, a new musical with book and lyrics by Cheryl Coons and music by Chuck Larkin, from September 21st through October 1st....
Actor and Director Harold Scott Dies at the Age of 70
by BWW News Desk - July 18, 2006
Obie Award-winning actor, director and producer Harold Scott has died at the age of 70...
by BWW News Desk - July 18, 2006
Obie Award-winning actor, director and producer Harold Scott has died at the age of 70...
Awake And Sing!: Heaven in Three Acts
by Michael Dale - April 25, 2006
Clifford Odets' Depression-era masterpiece has returned to the theatre of its original glory in director Bartlett Sher's captivating and heart-tugging revival...
by Michael Dale - April 25, 2006
Clifford Odets' Depression-era masterpiece has returned to the theatre of its original glory in director Bartlett Sher's captivating and heart-tugging revival...
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