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The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many individuals -- many whites but predominently black -- who knew only of the local efforts to aid fugitives and not of the overall operation. Still, it effectively moved hundreds of slaves northward each year -- according to one estimate, the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850.
National Comedy Center To Celebrate Ernie Kovacs with Centennial Exhibit

National Comedy Center To Celebrate Ernie Kovacs with Centennial Exhibit

by Kaitlin Milligan — January 24, 2019

The National Comedy Center will celebrate the centennial year of legendary comedy innovator Ernie Kovacs with the acquisition and display of never-before-seen material and rare artifacts courtesy of the comedian's estate. The acquisition and exhibit were announced today – on Ernie Kovacs' 100th b...

Steve Hackett Releases Second Single Off of Upcoming Album

Steve Hackett Releases Second Single Off of Upcoming Album

by Kaitlin Milligan — December 21, 2018

Following the tremendous success of 2017's The Night Siren (charted at #22 in Germany, #28 in the UK), legendary former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett releases his new studio album At The Edge Of Light on the 25th January 2019. The album which features ten songs, sees Steve unite a vast amoun...

Mendelssohn Choir Of Pittsburgh Presents 'Let My People Go!'

Mendelssohn Choir Of Pittsburgh Presents 'Let My People Go!'

by Stephi Wild — December 11, 2018

In February 2019, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP) invites audiences to celebrate Black History Month with the Pittsburgh premiere of American composer Donald McCullough's "Let My People Go! A Spiritual Journey Along the Underground Railroad." This concert of African American spirituals is ...

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME Comes to Malthouse Theatre

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME Comes to Malthouse Theatre

by Stephi Wild — December 09, 2018

Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of history teachers have an R-rated lesson in store. The subject is race, with a little sex, slavery and power on the side....

BWW Review: Utopia Opera Takes on Thea Musgrave's STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN

BWW Review: Utopia Opera Takes on Thea Musgrave's STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN

by Richard Sasanow — November 15, 2018

Short on financial resources but long on ambition, Utopia Opera started its eighth season last weekend with a New York premiere: Thea Musgrave's THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. It's a 90-minute chamber version, orchestrated by composer Julian Grant, of Musgrave's full-length, two-act HARRIET, THE WOMAN...

Barry Jenkins Signs First-Look Deal with Amazon

Barry Jenkins Signs First-Look Deal with Amazon

by Kaitlin Milligan — November 01, 2018

Barry Jenkins' PASTEL production banner set a first-look television deal at Amazon, according to Variety. Under the deal, he will exclusively develop television series for Amazon Studios....

BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME, Soho Theatre

BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME, Soho Theatre

by Dzifa Benson — September 14, 2018

The boundary razing two-hander created and performed by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R Sheppard Underground Railroad Game doesn't give too much of its own game away in the pre-show literature. From the first two words of the title, we can surmise that it has something to do with slavery but what does ...

New Stage Theatre Announces Education Touring Program

New Stage Theatre Announces Education Touring Program

by A.A. Cristi — August 10, 2018

In the 2017-2018 school year, New Stage Theatre, a professional theatre located in Jackson, Mississippi, partnered with Entergy Mississippi to provide over 2,890 students with touring performances and over 200 students with Power Play Workshops, as part of the Arts-in-Education statewide touring pro...

BIZARRE FOODS WITH ANDREW ZIMMERN Returns 7/3 To Travel Channel

BIZARRE FOODS WITH ANDREW ZIMMERN Returns 7/3 To Travel Channel

by BWW News Desk — July 03, 2018

Andrew Zimmern continues his epicurean exploration of the food that celebrates cultures and connects communities around the world in the new season of Travel Channel's “Bizarre Foods” with Andrew Zimmern, premiering on Today, July 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The seven-episode season brings bold new ad...

BIZARRE FOODS WITH ANDREW ZIMMERN Returns 7/3 To Travel Channel

BIZARRE FOODS WITH ANDREW ZIMMERN Returns 7/3 To Travel Channel

by Tori Hartshorn — June 05, 2018

Andrew Zimmern continues his epicurean exploration of the food that celebrates cultures and connects communities around the world in the new season of Travel Channel's “Bizarre Foods” with Andrew Zimmern, premiering on Tuesday, July 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The seven-episode season brings bold new ...

Sci-Fi Opera THE BRADBURY TATTOOS To Premiere This July

Sci-Fi Opera THE BRADBURY TATTOOS To Premiere This July

by A.A. Cristi — June 01, 2018

In the nearly 70 years since late author Ray Bradbury published 'The Illustrated Man,' various short stories in the classic science fiction anthology have been adapted for film, stage and television. Now, four of them serve as the basis for 'The Bradbury Tattoos,' an ambitious new rock opera, schedu...

Oratorio Society Of New York Presents Two World Premieres, 5/7

Oratorio Society Of New York Presents Two World Premieres, 5/7

by A.A. Cristi — April 23, 2018

World premieres of an oratorio about the Underground Railroad that sets narratives of slaves running for freedom and their lives, and a work that sets poems calling for peace in Farsi, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and English: Sanctuary Road, music by Paul Moravec and text by Mark Campbell based upon th...

Workshop & Book Signing Announced for THE TREE

Workshop & Book Signing Announced for THE TREE

by Julie Musbach — April 16, 2018

Author / historian / researcher  Minnette Coleman leads a  workshop designed to help attendees explore their connections to historical figures, family heritage, places in US or globally, religious organizations, and more at Sister's Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center (1942 Amsterdam Avenue) on S...

BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME is Searing and Sensational at Woolly Mammoth

BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME is Searing and Sensational at Woolly Mammoth

by Barbara Johnson — April 08, 2018

It can be unsettling to reflect on the experience of learning about slavery in middle school: was the content accurate and appropriate, or harmful to our perceptions of history and the present day? Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard explore this - and much more - in their creative, fearless prod...

Legendary Soprano Kathleen Battle To Sing Spirituals With Local Choirs

Legendary Soprano Kathleen Battle To Sing Spirituals With Local Choirs

by A.A. Cristi — March 26, 2018

American soprano Kathleen Battle's luminous voice has been called '…without qualification, one of the very few most beautiful in the world' (The Washington Post ). Yet beyond the glory of her singing, in a career filled with countless accolades, honors and major milestones, what has perhaps disti...



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