BWW Review: PORGY AND BESS at The Metropolitan Opera
by Joanna Barouch - September 26, 2019 Opening Night at the Metropolitan Opera! The very words tingle with palpable electricity and anticipation. Whether you attend in person, or go to the Times Square simulcast, or whether you listen on the radio or on the Met website, you are participating in one of the most thrilling events of the Ne...
Rev. Lawrence P. Lakey Asks WHERE ARE YOUR SCARS?
by Christina Mancuso - February 03, 2016 Rev. Lawrence P. Lakey, a minister, pastor, elder, previous CEO of the Tulsa Urban League, published writer and author, has completed his newest work 'Where Are Your Scars?': a gripping and potent work that delves into the ideas of faith, race, equality and perseverance.... 
BWW Review: Catharsis and Spangles: DREAMGIRLS, ArtsCentric Style
by Jack L. B. Gohn - November 29, 2021 Let’s stipulate that book writer and lyricist Tom Eyen and composer Henry Krieger were not Sondheim. What they gave us in Dreamgirls was serviceable, not brilliant, the result of a long development process largely aimed at repairing holes in the melodrama. The result: the company that puts on the sh... 
BWW Review: BOOTYCANDY is sweet and tasty at The Catastrophic Theatre
by Bryan-Keyth Wilson - February 27, 2019 Bootycandy, Bootycandy Bootycandy! There! I've said it three times and a zombie hasn't appeared but the brilliantly written play by Robert O'Hara has made its appearance in H-town! BOOTYCANDY had its world premiere at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre June of 2011 in Washington D.C. and then it made its wa... 
Theatre Evolution Will Launch Inaugural Season With THE CONTRACT
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2020 When a high-profile preacher's wife discovers her husband has a secret desire for men, she does what any good wife would do . . . she hires him a lover. Theatre Evolution launches its inaugural season with a production of THE CONTRACT, written and directed by James Webb (winner of Kennedy Center's L... 
Kennedy Center Unveils 50th Anniversary Season Including a Fall Reopening
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 06, 2021 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced plans for its 50th Anniversary season, slated to begin in September 2021 with a grand reopening of its stages and campus and culminate in September 2022 with a fresh interpretation of the seminal work that opened the Center in 1971, ... 
VIDEO: Sam Harris Visits Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge- Watch Now!
by Backstage With Richard Ridge - March 13, 2021 Watch as Richard chats with Sam Harris, whose award-winning Off-Broadway show, “HAM: A Musical Memoir,” filmed live on stage, is now available to stream on BroadwayHD.... 
BWW Interview: Choreographer Camille A. Brown of CHOIR BOY at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre
by Tracy Hopkins - March 04, 2019 Currently on tour with her new work 'Ink' -- the final installation of her company's trilogy that follows the Bessie Award-winning 'Mr. TOL E. RAncE' (2012) and Bessie-nominated 'BLACK GIRL:Linguistic Play' (2015) -- we chatted with Camille A. Brown via telephone about her process, and her work with...
City Theatre Announces New Program: City Connects
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2017 City Theatre is proud to announce a new community partnership initiative called City Connects. The program builds on the organization's long-standing commitment to encouraging discussion and engagement beyond the work seen on stage and celebrates City Theatre's core standing as an institution dedica... 
Detroit Public TV, PBS Books And ASALH Partnership To Celebrate Black Authors
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2021 As the nation struggles to understand its past and forge a more equitable future, PBS Books and ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History) have formed a new alliance, committed to highlighting the most acclaimed and important African American authors of our time and the i...
The Fourth Annual Harvard-Yale Cantata Comes to Feinstein's/54 Below
by A.A. Cristi - August 06, 2018 FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, again presents a cast of Harvard and Yale grads in The Fourth Annual Harvard-Yale Cantata. Join us for a unique evening at Feinstein's/54 Below, with Team Harvard looking to avenge another lucky one-point victory by Team Yale, who won in HY III for the s... 
The Django Announces March Line-Up: Celebrating Women's History Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 27, 2022 THE DJANGO, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, is commemorating Women’s History Month by hosting more than 20 leading female jazz artists on its stage during March.... 
Danielle Brooks Stars in ROBIN ROBERTS PRESENTS: MAHALIA, Premiering Tomorrow
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 02, 2021 Saturday, April 3 will see the debut of the feature length biopic Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia on Lifetime at 8pm EST/7pm CST. The movie of legend Mahalia Jackson stars GRAMMY and SAG award winner Danielle Brooks as the gospel legend and civil rights trail blazer. ...
Neon's AMAZING GRACE To Open This Year's Ebertfest
by A.A. Cristi - March 14, 2019 The 21st Annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, co-founded and hosted by Chaz Ebert and also known as 'Ebertfest", announced today that Alan Elliott's AMAZING GRACE will open this year's festival. AMAZING GRACE is the highly-anticipated concert film presenting Aretha Franklin's live performance at the ...
Danielle Brooks Stars in ROBIN ROBERTS PRESENTS: MAHALIA, Premiering Tomorrow
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 02, 2021 Saturday, April 3 will see the debut of the feature length biopic Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia on Lifetime at 8pm EST/7pm CST. The movie of legend Mahalia Jackson stars GRAMMY and SAG award winner Danielle Brooks as the gospel legend and civil rights trail blazer. ... 
Detroit Public TV Hosts a Week Devoted to the Black Church
by Stephi Wild - February 13, 2021 Next Tuesday and Wednesday night, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premieres his latest series, “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song.” ... 
Joe's Pub Releases Upcoming Schedule
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 08, 2019 Literary cabaret House of Speakeasy is back at Joe's Pub with Nina Burleigh, James Geary, Maggie Paxson & Monique Truong, while This Alien Nation, a celebration of immigrant stories, returns with Julio Torres, Mohammad Ewaz, Seuketu Mehta and Fariha Róisín.... 
Jacob's Pillow Announces Winter/Spring 2022 Pillow Lab Artist Residencies
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 09, 2021 Jacob’s Pillow has announced eight artist residencies this winter and spring at the Pillow Lab, its year-round incubator of new work. The annual season of customizable residencies supports U.S.-based and international dance artists during crucial development, research, and technical stages of choreo... 
BWW Interview: Jarvis Green of LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL (NCT)
by Nicole Ackman - October 31, 2021 Jarvis Green is the director and music director of North Carolina Theatre’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. This play with music explores events in the life of American singer Billie Holiday. Jarvis is the Founding Artistic Director of JAG Productions....
Sam Harris Launches Kickstarter to Film One-Man Show HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2016 Sam Harris, the Tony award-winning actor, recording artist, playwright, composer, director and best-selling author, is bringing his critically beloved one-man show HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR to audiences everywhere.... 
NJPAC to Present PSEG True Diversity Film Series: Not Done: Women Remaking America
by A.A. Cristi - March 16, 2022 New Jersey Performing Arts Center invites you to join in a FREE Virtual Screening and panel discussion for Not Done: Women Remaking America, the next PSEG True Diversity Film Series. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Melissa Cooper, assistant history professor at Rutgers University-Newark and autho...
A Cappella Ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock Returns to Carnegie Hall Tonight
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2016 Grammy Award-nominated a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock -- internationally renowned for seamlessly traversing musical genres through vibrant song, dance, and storytelling -- returns to Carnegie Hall tonight, February 11 at 8:00 p.m. for a performance in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage.... 
HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR Will Stream in January
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 15, 2020 “HAM: A Musical Memoir,” filmed live on stage, is coming to BroadwayHD, where it will begin streaming exclusively January 7th, 2021. Based on Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Sam Harris’s critically acclaimed book, “Ham: Slices of a Life”, the original stage production was deve... 
South Bend Symphony Orchestra to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' Speech With Four Concerts
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 08, 2022 The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is partnering with local churches to applaud and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the cultural significance of African American music, and the sixtieth anniversary of Dr. King's 'I have a Dream' speech in a series titled 'Celebration for a Dream.'... 
2022 Daytime Emmy Nominations Announced
by Michael Major - May 05, 2022 Beyond Salem, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, the Young and the Restless, Family Feud, Jeopardy!, Let's Make a Deal, the Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, Red Table Talk, Tamron Hall, the Kelly Clarkson Show, the Drew Barrymore Show, Today Show with Hoda & Jenna, Dr.... |
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