Hattie Winston News

The Tony Award-winning Negro Ensemble Company -- celebrating its historic 40th anniversary season as a national showcase and home for black actors, writers and directors -- opens its present season with the NEC premiere of award-winning playwright Layon Gray's WEBEIME, with previews to begin March 28 prior to its official opening April 5 at The Harlem School of The Arts (645 St. Nicholas Avenue) in Manhattan.

Tony Award-winner Lillias White, Keith David and the cast of Drumstruck will appear at Joe's Pub in Nativity: A Life Story this holiday season.

Over a dozen stars--among them Jason Alexander, Kate Burton, Megan Mullally and Lainie Kazan--will perform in a Funny Girl benefit in LA on March 8th

On February 13, Town Hall was the setting for a salute to the endurance and influence of Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre.

On February 13, New York's historic Town Hall will be the setting for an extraordinary star-studded salute to the endurance and influence of Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre (NFT), for 35 years a seminal force in the Black Arts Movement (BAM).