Boots Riley News

Black Women on Broadway announced its 2026 honorees, recognizing the contributions of Black women to the Broadway community. Learn more about the honorees here!

Keke Palmer is lending her musical talents to a new EP of songs featured in Boots Riley's film, I Love Boosters. Palmer, who also stars in the film, will preview the recording with the digital release of the single “2-D' on Friday, April 17. 

SFFILM has unveiled the program for the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival, featuring Olivia Wilde's The Invite, Kent Jones' Late Fame, Power Ballad, and more. Take a look at highlights from the lineup here.

The official trailer is here for I LOVE BOOSTERS, from filmmaker Boots Riley. The movie follows a crew of professional shoplifters who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven, played by Demi Moore. Watch it now.

Performances are underway for Proof, ahead of a Thursday, April 16 opening night at the Booth Theatre. Learn more about the show and meet the cast of Proof here!

The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival will open with Boots Riley’s new film, I Love Boosters. The Festival’s Opening Night Film will screen on Thursday, May 7 at The Paramount Theatre at 7:00 pm, followed by an afterparty at Cannonball Arts.

Two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young will join the cast of the first ever Broadway revival of David Auburn’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, directed by Tony Award winner Thomas Kail.

To coincide with the release of his new film, I LOVE BOOSTERS, filmmaker Boots Riley will take the movie to college campuses across the country ahead of its theatrical debut on May 22, 2026.

The West Coast premiere of Boots Riley’s latest feature film, I Love Boosters, will take place at Oakland’s historic movie palace, the Grand Lake Theater, as part of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 14, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Boots Riley, filmmaker behind 2018's Sorry to Bother You and the upcoming I Love Boosters, is bringing Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, to the big screen.

Hamnet writer/director Chloé Zhao will be honored with the annual Trailblazer Award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, with Nia DaCosta and Geeta Gandbhir receiving Vanguard Awards.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the full company for All Is But Fantasy, a bold new work created by Whitney White at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon.

In this video, watch as two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young walks us through the aisles of the Drama Book Shop to tell us all about the plays that made her the artist she is today. Can you guess which classics she most adores?

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries will return to the New York stage in a new production starring three-time Emmy Award nominee Nicholas Braun (“Succession”) and two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young.

A top-flight cast of musical theater greats is now rocking rehearsal for Revolution(s)—the all-new punk/metal/hip-hop musical by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Morello and Chicago’s Zayd Ayers Dohrn. Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Learn more!

This fall, The Moth—the acclaimed global nonprofit dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling—presents a season devoted to the theme of DARING. Not the adrenaline-fueled variety, but the deeply human kind.

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Kara Young took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play' for her outstanding work in Purpose. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, she checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share his initial reaction!

Kara Young has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for PURPOSE.

Acclaimed global storytelling organization The Moth will unveil the details for their highly anticipated annual fundraising gala, Fantastic Voyage: The 2025 Moth Ball. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of The Lighthouse at Pier 61 at Chelsea Piers, the event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 13th.