Just last month, Black Theatre United celebrated its third annual Gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. This year’s theme was “United: Today & Beyond”. Check out video highlight from the big night here!
See photos from inside the Black Theatre United 2025 Gala. The evening was directed by (for the third year) by Jerry Dixon with musical direction by Joseph Joubert.
Black Theatre United has revealed its lineup of performers and honorary co-chairs for its third annual Gala. See who is taking part and learn how to purchase tickets!
Black Theatre United will present its third annual Gala. This year’s theme is “United: Today & Beyond.' Learn more about the gala and see how to attend!
Black Theatre United will present the next installment of The Business of Show Series: Producing 101. Learn more about the series and see how to tune in!
Mathew Knowles and Carly Rae Jepsen both recently paid a visit to A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical. They both posed with the cast after the show, and BroadwayWorld was there. Check out photos here!
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical has added producers Tonya Lewis Lee, Mathew and Gena Avery Knowles, and Les Coney to the producing team.
In just 10 days, Overture Center and Peboga Productions offer our community live gospel music with local, regional and world-renowned gospel artists at the SSM Health Fall Gospel Fest featuring Jekalyn Carr, Joshua Rogers and Angela Primm on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 6:30 p.m. in Capitol Theater.
For decades, gospel music, characterized by dominant vocals and strong use of harmony with Christian lyrics, has provided inspiration and entertainment across the world.
Center Theatre Group has added eight new members to its Board of Directors over the course of this season, as the organization continues building strong support from across the community throughout the prolonged closures of its theatres as a result of the pandemic, announced Board President Kiki Ramos Gindler. Growing its Board to 50 members, its newest dedicated supporters are Michelle A. Avan, Wendy Chang, Noah Francis, Ron Gillyard, Max Gousse, Marsha Tauber Sallai, Richard Weitz and Hattie Winston.
Springboard Music Festivals, dubbed the a?oemusic discovery festival,a?? announces its 14th event and first ever virtual music event, Springboard Midwest.
BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature Jenn Colella in PETER PAN, Patti LuPone, DEAR EVAN HANSEN London, and More!
BroadwayWorld recently announced that Survivor: The Destiny's Child Musical is coming soon! The production will premiere in Houston, with plans for Broadway, London's West End and, eventually, its own world tour.
Since its inception in 1990, Destiny's Child has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won multiple Grammy Awards, served as an inspiration to many musical acts and garnered generations of fans. Now, for the first time ever, audiences will be treated to an honest, behind-the-scenes look at how the greatest girl group of all time was created - courtesy of the mastermind behind them, Mathew Knowles.
Today, Netflix released Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce, which presents an intimate look at her historic 2018 Coachella performance that paid homage to America's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Interspersed with candid footage and interviews detailing the preparation and powerful intent behind her vision, Homecoming gives a peek into the process and emotional physical sacrifices it took to conceptualize and execute a performance of that magnitude that became a cultural movement. This stand-alone Netflix original is now available globally on Netflix.
Beyonce, through her BeyGOOD initiative, announces a partnership with Google.org, the charitable arm of tech giant Google, to award four new scholarships as part of her Homecoming Scholars Award Program. The iconic performer also issues a challenge to other businesses to join Google.org in investing in excellence through education.
With uncanny timing for socially charged topics, music mogul Mathew Knowles hits hard right out of the gate withhis latest book Racismfrom the Eyes of a Child (Amazon/Ingram), released just in time for Black History Month. RFEC is a deeply personal reflection on racism in the south, where the Gadsden, AL native was raised, and America at-large. The semi-biographical journey is seen through his and close relative's accounts of a childhood lived through the country's most separate past. From the 1950s-70s, Knowles experienced one of many firstsfrom integrating all-white schools in the south, up through his experiences in the corporate, and later music world. There he helped cement music history by introducing his bloodline and managed talent to the world with Beyonc (Destiny's Child) and Solange Knowles. His experiences as a child with police cattle prods and other such heinous practices used on protestors, all shaped his hyper-awareness of racismeven found in households like his own, in the form of colorism. Such controversial subjects are not new; however, they have been stirring up international dialogue recently. Knowles shot to the center of the subject by asking us to consider if the music industry's own colorism issues might still be in play.