Vanguard Theater announced the lineup for its ILLUMINATING NEW VOICES FESTIVAL, featuring eight original works across four nights in Montclair, NJ, exploring themes of autonomy, identity, and resistance.
Emmy award-winning writer, actor, and producer Lena Waithe has joined The Fire This Time Festival as a Creative Consultant for their New Works Lab. TFTT also revealed the artists who were selected for Cycle 8th of New Works Lab.
FRIGID New York and The Apollo will present the 17th season of the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, a platform for playwrights of African and African-American descent to write and produce evocative material for diverse audiences.
Blackboard Plays and the Parent Artist Advocacy League will partner to uplift the stories of Black families for the 3rd Annual Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival.
The Fire This Time Festival will present Melda Beaty, Rachel Herron, and Marcus Scott as playwrights for its New Works Lab. Learn more about the Lab and about the playwrights!
Tiny Scripted has acquired Taylor A. Blackman's play IT'S KAREN, B****! for its On Stage licensing catalog. The play will be featured in the 2024 anthology WE/US and on PBS's All Arts in 2025.
Center Theatre Group, in collaboration with The Fire This Time Festival and Watts Village Theater Company, will present a second season of Not A Moment, But A Movement, an initiative created to amplify, center, and celebrate Black voices.
From the producers of Valley of Light comes Where Within, a new, family-friendly, folklore-inspired musical about learning to navigate a strange new world together.
From March 20 to 28, Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. will present 'No Policy No Justice,' an evening of three one-acts, at La MaMa Community Arts Space, 74 E.4th Street.
FRIGID New York announces the full schedule for the 2024 The Fire This Time Festival.
France-Luce Benson, Adrienne Dawes, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, and Mars Wolfe will be developing their work in The Fire This Time Festival New Works Lab. Get all the details here.
FRIGID New York will present the 2024 The Fire This Time Festival at a brand new home this January. The Obie Award winning festival will be celebrating its 15th anniversary with the return of its annual Ten-Minute Play Program at The Wild Project.
From October 19 to November 6 at Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. will present 'Our Voices, Our Time,' a program of three one-acts that have been co-commissioned by Penn Live Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Center Theatre Group is announcing six new commissions as an extension of Not a Moment, But a Movement initiative created to amplify, center and celebrate Black voices.
In April 2021, Parent Artist Advocacy League and Blackboard Plays announced the 1st Annual Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival, the four works that comprise the lineup, and the partner theatres with whom they are producing the plays: Bishop Arts Theater Center, Detroit Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, and St. Louis Rep.
The North Carolina Black Repertory Company has announced the virtual world premiere of Freedom Summer, written by Cynthia Grace Robinson and directed by Jackie Alexander. The 90-minute play will be available for streaming on demand, February 12-28, 2021.
Conch Shell Productions, Braata Productions and Kumu Kahua Theatre have formed an alliance designed to spotlight Black and Indigenous People of Color in America, responding to systemic racism and oppression in America.
Quick Silver Theater Company's (QSTC) third annual Citizen One Reading Series launches Friday November 16th. QSTC will present staged readings of four emerging playwrights of color as part of their series.
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