Black Love highlights love stories from the black community and seek to answer the burning question, What is the secret to making a marriage work? Husband-and-wife filmmakers Codie and Tommy Oliver present real, honest, emotional and sometimes cringe-worthy love stories from some of the most successful people in business and entertainment as well as everyday couples.
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The Flea to Present Second Annual Juneteenth Public Performances
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 03, 2022
The Flea has commissioned Ebony Noelle Golden, James Scruggs, and Chanon Judson to devise and stage public performances in celebration of Juneteenth. These artists all have full autonomy over artistic vision and their budgets....
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Presents BLACK BODY AMNESIA At The Museum Of Arts And Design and Bronx Academy Of Arts And Dance
by A.A. Cristi - May 18, 2022
The performance artist brings their unique talents to New York with Black Body Amnesia at The Museum Of Arts And Design on July 7 and at BAAD! Bronx Academy Of Arts And Dance on July 9. ...
LEIKELI47 Concludes 'Beauty' Trilogy With 'Shape Up' Out Now
Paines Plough Announces Roundabout 2022 Programme and Edinburgh Festival Fringe Run
by Stephi Wild - May 05, 2022
Artistic Directors Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner have today announced Paines Plough's Roundabout programme for 2022. The award-winning pop-up venue will be premiering three new plays in rep at Summerhall as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time since 2019. As well as work from th...
VIDEO: Showtime Shares THE CHI Season Five Trailer
by Michael Major - May 04, 2022
Watch the new trailer now for this season on THE CHI which delves deeply into the many joys and complications of Black love: relationships, children, career, community and self. Emmett (Jacob Latimore) and Tiff (Hannaha Hall) forge ahead as co-parents, while Tiff grows closer with Rob (Iman Shumpert...
Steppenwolf Announces 2022/23 Season Featuring 4 World Premieres & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 19, 2022
Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced the 2022/23 Season today. With six Steppenwolf Membership Series productions and two SYA productions, the 47th season is the storied company’s first full season in its expanded home—welcoming audiences back to experience the next chapter of Steppenwo...
Kiln Theatre Announces Full Cast For Marina Carr's GIRL ON AN ALTAR
by Stephi Wild - April 12, 2022
With Chinonyerem Odimba and Ben and Max Ringham's Black Love currently running at the theatre, Kiln Theatre, in a brand-new partnership with the Abbey Theatre, today announces the full cast for Marina Carr's Girl on an Altar. Annabelle Comyn directs Nina Bowers (Cassandra), Daon Broni (Aegisthus), J...
THE WHITE CARD By Claudia Rankine Announces UK Premiere and Tour
by Stephi Wild - April 12, 2022
The UK and European premiere of Claudia Rankine's The White Card will open at Northern Stage in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in May before a three-month UK tour. ...
The Front Porch Arts Collective Announces 2022-2023 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 05, 2022
The Front Porch Arts Collective has announced its two-play 2022-2023 season, which includes Broadway hit Chicken & Biscuits and romantic comedy K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Performances will begin in the fall of 2022, with one production taking the stage at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at th...
BWW Review: BLACK LOVE, Kiln Theatre
by Louise Penn - April 02, 2022
There is a sense of anticipation in the air as we take our seats for Black Love, which comes to the Kiln for a strictly limited run this month. As Aurora (Nicholle Cherrie) slinks into the stage set of white boxes, surrounded on all sides by the audience, she brings with her a stylised version o...
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BLACK LOVE
by A.A. Cristi - April 01, 2022
Kiln Theatre’s Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham presents Chinonyerem Odimba’s Black Love. Black Love launches the theatre’s 2022 season, transforming the venue into the round....
Guest Blog: Chinonyerem Odimba On BLACK LOVE at the Kiln Theatre
by Guest Author - April 01, 2022
Black Love is... This play. It is a play borne out of my own love for telling stories but also telling stories that allow Black Love to be seen on stages....
Queer|Art Announces Judges For 3rd Annual Illuminations Grant For Black Trans Women Visual Artists
by A.A. Cristi - March 31, 2022
To commemorate Transgender Day of Visibility, Queer|Art, NYC's home for connecting and empowering generations of LGBTQ+ Artists, is pleased to announce the judges for the third annual Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists: interdisciplinary artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase; writer, cu...
Bravo Announces New Series LOVE MATCH ATLANTA
by Michael Major - March 29, 2022
The docuseries takes viewers inside the competitive and drama-filled social scene of Atlanta’s exclusive matchmaking industry. The cast includes Ming Clark, Joseph Dixon, Kelli Fisher, Tana Gilmore and Shae Primus. Watch the trailer for the new series now@...
THE FIRE THIS TIME FESTIVAL to Release Anthology in March With Methuen Drama
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 15, 2022
On March 10, 2022 New York City’s Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival will release an anthology entitled 25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth and Black Theatre....
Black Music City Awards $90,000 In Artistic Grants That Honor Philadelphia's Rich Black Music History
by Stephi Wild - February 15, 2022
A total of $90,000 in grants is being awarded to 46 Black creatives in the greater Philadelphia area by the Black Music City project, it was announced today....
Kiln Theatre Announces Two World Premières As Part Of 2022 Season
by Stephi Wild - February 15, 2022
Following a critically acclaimed, sell-out reopening season, that culminated with Zadie Smith's The Wife of Willesden, Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham today announces further programming for the 2022 season at Kiln Theatre. ...
Writers' Guild Of Great Britain Award Winners Announced
by Stephi Wild - February 15, 2022
Writers behind some of the most critically acclaimed works over the last two years were honoured at the 29th Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards ceremony, including Russell T Davies, Kevin Dyer, Emerald Fennell, Andrea Gibb, Chinonyerem Odimba, Simon Blackwell and Armando Iannucci and Jack Thorne...
Jacob's Pillow Announces 2022 Dance Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 02, 2022
Jacob’s Pillow has announced the full season lineup for Festival 2022, featuring world premieres, new commissions, 90th Anniversary Season celebrations, Pillow-exclusive engagements, and work developed at the Pillow Lab. ...
Full Cast Announced For BLACK LOVE Launching Kiln Theatre's 2022 Season
by Stephi Wild - February 02, 2022
Kiln Theatre's Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham announces the full company for Chinonyerem Odimba's Black Love. Black Love launches the theatre's 2022 season, transforming the venue into the round. With Book and Lyrics by Chinonyerem Odimba, Music by Ben and Max Ringham, the production opens on 1...
Disney+, Hulu & ESPN Honor Black History Month with New Content & Curated Collections Across the Bundle
by Michael Major - February 01, 2022
This February, in honor of Black History Month, The Disney Bundle will continue its promise of amplifying Black stories across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ all year long with new and shared content in each service's always-on Black Stories collection. Check out the lineup of content now!...
Interact Theatre Company Returns with THIS BITTER EARTH
by A.A. Cristi - January 21, 2022
InterAct Theatre Company continues its 2021-2022 season with This Bitter Earth, by Harrison David Rivers, a “compassionate and devastating” play (Chicago Theatre Beat) “equal parts searing and touching, gut-wrenching and romantic.” This Bitter Earth marks InterAct's 2nd return to live,...
BAM to Present the NYC Premiere of AN UNTITLED LOVE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 20, 2022
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham will return to BAM, after seven years, with the evening-length dance work An Untitled Love set to the music of the neo-soul, Grammy Award-winning R&B artist D’Angelo....
STG Starts 2022 Performing Arts Season with Jazz, Contemporary Dance and a String Quartet in February
by A.A. Cristi - January 18, 2022
Seattle Theatre Group starts the new year with an eclectic mix of three sensational performances at the Paramount and Moore Theatres....
Kennedy Center & Washington National Opera to Present World Premiere of WRITTEN IN STONE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2022
A surveyor ponders the meaning of memory and monuments. A young girl scout seeks a place for herself in history. A Black father and son find themselves on opposite sides of a same-sex marriage rally. And the vision of 22-year-old Asian American undergraduate Maya Lin is the catalyst for a reappraisa...
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