Langston Hughes News

BNS Productions present an adaptation of the Langston Hughes classic, 'Black Nativity', directed by Jermaine Nakia Lee

Gamut Theatre Group presents Classics Fest: Five shows, over five nights, for $5 tickets each. Classics Fest is a week-long festival of plays and staged readings that celebrate diversity and classic works.

On Friday, February 4, 2022, GRAMMY Award-winning Catalyst Quartet will release UNCOVERED Volume 2: Florence B. Price on Azica Records. The album is the second issue of a multi-volume anthology highlighting string quartet works by historically important Black composers which aims to bring greater awareness and programming of their music.

Black Theatre Troupe’s production of Langston Hughes’s BLACK NATIVITY is a moving celebration of life and faith. A Seasonal must-see! Runs through December 19th at The Helen K. Mason Performing Arts Center in Phoenix.

Bass-baritone Davóne Tines, who in October was announced as Musical America’s 2022 Vocalist of the Year, will be honored for this achievement at the 61st annual Musical America Awards, to be held virtually via Facebook Live on Sunday, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. ET.

Today's top stories include the return of Slave Play, which begins previews for its return engagement on Broadway tonight! Plus, watch Celina Smith rehearse 'Tomorrow' from Annie Live!, an all new West Side Story trailer, and more! Tickets are now on sale for Mr. Saturday Night, starring Billy Crystal. The production comes to Broadway next year.

New England Conservatory has announced a series of fall master classes in-person and streaming live from the Boston campus this fall. Continuing with the technological innovations made during the pandemic, digital master classes and events by world-class artists open the doors of the Conservatory to anyone watching around the world.

The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director, will present the Carnegie Hall premiere of The Ballad of the Brown King: A Christmas Cantata (1954) by American composer Margaret Bonds on a text by Langston Hughes in Bonds's original orchestration, along with their 50-minute 'vest-pocket' Messiah by G.F. Handel.

The performance includes a heavy dose of contemporary and Gospel music that promises to deliver the hand-clapping, toe-tapping, finger-snapping theatrical experience Dallas audiences have come to love and enjoy.

Bryce Davis and Cilliers opened their recital program with Richard Strauss' and John Henry Mackay's uplifting 'Heimliche Aufforderung' ('The Secret Invitation'). This joyous, celebratory composition was the composer's gift to his bride on their wedding day. Bryce-Davis sang it with exquisite vocal colors. Next was Robert Schumann 'Die Lotosblume' ('The Lotus Flower') in which the poet Heinrich Heine described the beauty of the love between the flower and the moon. Bryce-Davis showed the lyric tones of her voice as she told of this delicate love.

Complete casting has been announced for the return Broadway engagement of Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street). Joining the production are Devin Kawaoka as Dustin and Jonathan Chad Higginbotham as Phillip. They join returning original Broadway and NYTW cast members.

Resonance Works will make its return to the stage with “Back to the Future,” live at The Greer Cabaret at Theater Square, Saturday and Sunday, November 13 & 14, 2021 at 7:30pm. The Resonance Chamber Orchestra, led by Artistic Director and conductor, Maria Sensi Sellner, performs the

After months of refurbishments and closure due to coronavirus, the Royal Albert Hall is back open and ready to celebrate its 150th anniversary. Part of its full re-opening programme was the return of Letters Live, an event which has taken place at various venues across the world (from the Union Chapel in Islington to the Calais refugee camp to Los Angeles), and made its debut at the Royal Albert Hall back in 2019.

Yesterday, at a press conference hosted at Roxbury Community College, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and Odyssey Opera, two of today's leading innovators on the classical musical scene, unveiled a new five-year initiative to elevate opera by Black composers. 

Since 1975, Black Theatre Troupe audiences have enjoyed BLACK NATIVITY, the legendary holiday event by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. For its 50th anniversary season, the company announces its return to the stage with a stunning new production, December 3 - 19, 2021.

Acclaimed pianist Shai Wosner marks his Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) return with a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's demanding Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 15 in B-flat Major, K. 450. Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov conducts the concert which includes Evan Williams' The Dream Deferred and Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 4, “Tragic.”

Dominion Entertainment Group is excited to announce the return of its hit holiday musical, Black Nativity: A Gospel Christmas Musical Experience, directed by Robert John Connor, with musical direction by Keith Wilson, and choreographed by Dawn Axam. Dominion will return to the newly renovated Ferst Center for the Arts located on the campus of Georgia Tech for this years Atlanta run of this production.

In the talented hands of charismatic pianist Claire Huangci, Liszt's extraordinarily beautiful piano concerto is sure to impress with its lyricism and originality.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Slave Play will return to Broadway beginning later this fall. The return engagement, directed by Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara, will begin performances Tuesday, November 23 ahead of an official opening night of Thursday, December 2 for a strictly limited eight-week engagement through Sunday, January 23, 2022.

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