Langston Hughes News

The Crossroads Theatre Company's current season will continue with TRAIN TO 2010, opening on October 13 and running through October 24.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.

There's No Business IN Show Business by Teresa Coleman Wash- A World Premiere Thriller Directed by JuNene K

Subtitled 'A Play with Cartoons,' Neighbors is guaranteed to be the most provocative play you'll see this year. Following on the heels of last season's multiple award-winning production of Stick Fly, Joseph Stern's Matrix Theatre Company is back with Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins' shocking, explosive, and wildly theatrical new play that examines race relations in post-racial America.

Coming off the heels of the greatest archaeological find in jazz in decades, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem invites you to share in the treasures of the Savory Collection, featuring jazz legends of the Swing Era.

Subtitled 'A Play with Cartoons,' Neighbors is guaranteed to be the most provocative play you'll see this year. Following on the heels of last season's multiple award-winning production of Stick Fly, Joseph Stern's Matrix Theatre Company is back with Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins' shocking, explosive, and wildly theatrical new play that examines race relations in post-racial America. Nataki Garrett directs the West Coast premiere at The Matrix Theatre, August 28 through October 24, with previews beginning August 19.

Subtitled 'A Play with Cartoons,' Neighbors is guaranteed to be the most provocative play you'll see this year. Following on the heels of last season's multiple award-winning production of Stick Fly, Joseph Stern's Matrix Theatre Company is back with Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins' shocking, explosive, and wildly theatrical new play that examines race relations in post-racial America.

Producers Proteus Spann and Pro2Play Productions are pleased to announce the Washington-area premiere of the award-winning new gospel musical comedy Sanctified. Written by Javon Johnson, with original music by Rollo A. Dilworth, and directed by Derrick Sanders, Sanctified will play the historic Lincoln Theatre for a limited engagement, October 21 through November 14. Casting will be announced next month.

Kenny Leon and True Colors Theatre Company are proud to announce the addition of award winning actress Jasmine Guy as a full time member of the True Colors team.

Intiman Theatre announces that acclaimed choreographer Donald Byrd will join the artistic team of its popular gospel musical Black Nativity as it starts a new holiday tradition being co-presented with Seattle Theatre Group at The Moore Theatre. Performances will run December 10-26, with a preview performance on December 9.

Richard Pryor Jr. (1st-born son of the late great) stars in International CringeFest '10, the seriously irreverent annual festival presented by NY Artists Unlimited at the Producers' Club, 358 W. 44 St., runs through August 8.

The 2010 Summer Music Theatre Festival at the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University kicks off in June with an overview.

Reginald André Jackson, a Book-It Company member, actor, director, and adaptor, hasreceived the Distinguished Play Award, with Dramatic Publishing, for his adaptation of Bud, Not Buddy.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin. There was once a time that these were the names to roll easily off of the tongue when considering the contemporary African-American playwright.

Inaugurated in 1971 under director of community programming Leonard DePaur, Out of Doors began as a small festival of street theater, in collaboration with Everyman Theater (co-founded by actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.)

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.

Subtitled 'A Play with Cartoons,' Neighbors is guaranteed to be the most provocative play you'll see this year. Following on the heels of last season's multiple award-winning production of Stick Fly, Joseph Stern's Matrix Theatre Company is back with Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins' shocking, explosive, and wildly theatrical new play that examines race relations in post-racial America.

Engage your senses this October with ARTS CRUSH. All month long Theatre Puget Sound (TPS) challenges residents and visitors around Puget Sound to 'GET CRUSHED' with hundreds and hundreds of special one-time arts events, discounts and free activities. Currently over 150 arts organizations from all arts disciplines have signed up to participate in a variety of ways, and more groups are expected to join in the coming weeks.

Inaugurated in 1971 under director of community programming Leonard DePaur, Out of Doors began as a small festival of street theater, in collaboration with Everyman Theater (co-founded by actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.)

Richard Pryor Jr. (1st-born son of the late great) stars in International CringeFest '10, the seriously irreverent annual festival presented by NY Artists Unlimited at the Producers' Club, 358 W. 44 St., runs through August 8.