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FREMONT AVE. to Have Two-Week Extension at Arena Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 11, 2025

Arena Stage's world-premiere play, Fremont Ave., will extend two additional weeks. Freemont Ave. is written by Reggie D. White and directed by Lili-Anne Brown, Fremont Ave.

Review: FREMONT AVE. at Arena Stage
by David Friscic - Oct 20, 2025

The play Fremont Ave., which is now at the Kreeger Theater at the Arena Stage, is an interesting attempt to show the healing effects of intergenerational family bonds. The playwright, Reggie D. White, has attempted to convey a multitude of  themes and moods as affects the Plique family as they live their lives in a southern California  suburb from 1968 until the 2020’s. As the characters in the play confront their dreams, ambitions, and fears the audience reacted with such interactive yelling and talking back to the stage that the play certainly evoked much response –so much response that I was unable to hear the lines at many times.

Cast and Creative Team Set for FREMONT AVE. at Arena Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 8, 2025

Arena Stage has revealed the cast and creative team for Fremont Ave., a searing and soulful new dramatic-comedy where three generations of Black men face off against masculinity, identity, and the weight of silence passed down.

Photos: Inside the 4th Annual Black Women on Broadway Awards
by Nicole Rosky - Jun 3, 2025

Just yesterday, Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) held its fourth annual awards celebration honoring three exceptional women - LaTanya Richardson Jackson, LaChanze, and Khaila Wilcoxon. Check out photos here!

KUDZU CALLING Comes to Alabama Shakespeare Festival
by Stephi Wild - May 13, 2025

Alabama Shakespeare Festival will present Kudzu Calling, written by Donnetta Lavinia Grays and directed by Kevin R. Free. Learn more about the upcoming production here!

LaTanya Richardson Jackson, LaChanze and Khaila Wilcoxon to be Honored at Black Women on Broadway Awards
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 23, 2025

The Black Women on Broadway Awards will honor Tony nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Tony winner LaChanze and Khaila Wilcoxon. Learn more about the awards here!

The Stratford Festival's 2023 Production of WEDDING BAND to Stream This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 5, 2025

The Stratford Festival is sharing the 2023 production of Alice Childress's Wedding Band by making it available for streaming worldwide, directed by Sam White. Learn how to watch.

Camden Rep to Present Hammer and Nails Conference for Young Girls of Color
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 13, 2025

Camden Rep will introduce girls of color between the ages of 14 and 18 to behind-the-scenes careers in theater and film with the company’s first Hammer and Nails Conference. Learn more!

Stratfest@Home To Begin Streaming CYMBELINE And More
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 11, 2024

Stratfest@Home will begin streaming the 2024 production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline and the 2023 production of Alice Childress's Wedding Band. New original content includes the music series Never Doubt I Love and the short film The Understudy.

PlayMakers Repertory Company Presents Lynn Nottage's CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 28, 2024

PlayMakers Repertory Company has announced its 2024/25 season opener with Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a poignant story of a Black family navigating race and identity in 1950s Brooklyn.

Videos: Alex Edelman, Nikiya Mathis, and Abe Jacob Accept Special Tony Awards
by Stephi Wild - Jun 16, 2024

The 77th Annual Tony Awards are now underway. Alex Edelman, Nikiya Mathis, and Abe Jacob received Special Tony Awards. Check out their acceptance speeches here!

Photos: Inside The Black Women on Broadway Awards
by Stephi Wild - Jun 12, 2024

The Black Women on Broadway Awards returned for their third annual in-person event at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers on June 10.

Find Out Who's Receiving 2024 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre and Special Tony Awards
by Stephi Wild - May 2, 2024

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that the honorees for the 2024 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, as well as Special Tony Awards.

Review: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Syracuse Stage
by Dan and Julie Izzo - Sep 18, 2023

Syracuse Stage kicks off its 50th anniversary season with Heidi Schreck’s 'What the Constitution Means to Me', a clever, poignant, multifaceted gem of a play. Literally framed like an old photograph that stirs memory, the play begins as the middle-aged Heidi Schreck (Mel House) steps into a picture of her teenage self engaged in competitive debate.

Review: WEDDING BAND At The Stratford Festival is A Beautifully Heartbreaking Story about Love and Dignity
by Lauren Gienow - Sep 15, 2023

This season, the Stratford Festival is certainly not shying away from material that addresses pandemics – fictional or historical. Director Sam White’s production of Alice Childress’ WEDDING BAND takes place during WWI when many were falling ill and dying from the influenza virus. It is the story of interracial couple Julia Augustine (Antonette Rudder) and Herman (Cyrus Lane) who are forced to contend with influenza when Herman falls ill, and who have already been contending with another pandemic – that of racism and white supremacy that is arguable even more rampant. This beautiful and heartbreaking play allows us to witness how Julia as a Black Woman, and Julia and Herman as a couple reckon with both external and internal forces that challenge their faith in their relationship and lead them to come to terms with what “dignity” means to them.

Hilarious And Hopeful WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME Opens Syracuse Stage 50th Season
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 31, 2023

​​​​​​​Syracuse Stage opens its 50th Anniversary 2023/24 season with “What the Constitution Means to Me,” Heidi Schreck's deeply personal and powerful exploration of how the United States' founding document shaped her life, and the lives of the women who raised her. The production runs Sept. 13 to Oct. 1 in the Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. 

Charleston Gaillard Center Reveals Full Casting for World Premiere of FINDING FREEDOM: THE JOURNEY OF ROBERT SMALLS
by Stephi Wild - Jul 12, 2023

Charleston Gaillard Center has announced the full cast for the world premiere of Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls, written by Teralyn Reiter and directed by JaMeeka Holloway.

WEDDING BAND to Begin Performances Tomorrow at the Stratford Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 19, 2023

Alice Childress’s riveting play Wedding Band – a profound meditation on injustice and intolerance – starts performances at the Stratford Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre on Tuesday in a production directed by Sam White.

Photos: Go Inside The 2nd Annual BLACK WOMEN ON BROADWAY Awards!
by Jennifer Broski - Jun 6, 2023

The second annual Black Women On Broadway awards were held this week in New York and the star-studded event included appearances from the organization's founders, Danielle Brooks, Jocelyn Bioh, and Amber Iman and Broadway luminaries NaTasha Yvette Williams, Tonya Pinkins, Crystal Lucas Perry, LaChanze, Audra McDonald and more! See who else turned out to celebrate Black women on Broadway in the photos below!

New Theater Work on Unsung Civil Rights Hero Robert Smalls Debuts in Charleston
by Stephi Wild - May 26, 2023

Building upon a commitment to commissioning and producing ambitious, multidisciplinary performances and programming that uplifts stories of underappreciated heroes from the South, the Charleston Gaillard Center announced details for its world premiere of Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls written by Teralyn Reiter, the performing arts center’s first theatrical commission which will be performed in Charleston, SC this coming October for the public and thousands of students.