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In his debut Los Angeles solo show at Bermudez Projects, Richmond, Virginia-based Andrew Norris reflects on the spectacle of celebrity and the vicarious experience of loneliness and queer longing in All I Ever Wanted Was to Kiss the Sun. 

A new Music + Culture Festival, “The Big Homecoming” has just announced that it's making its way to Atlanta, this summer. This two-day HBCU experience kicks off June 17-18th, 2022, paying homage to historically black colleges, including FAMU, where the two Co-Founders, music executives Maurice Slade and Amir Windom, met as undergrads.

The New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas have announced I Dream a World: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, a multi-disciplinary, multi-tiered festival that celebrates the history and influence of this cultural movement.

RENAMING SHAIM a play centered on overcoming sexual trauma will have a three-night run at Broadway Bound Theatre Festival - Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 8:00 pm; Sunday, September 26, 2021 @ 2:00 pm; and Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 8:00 pm.

Everyone remembers Daphne Maxwell Reid as an iconic TV mom of the 1990s from her three seasons as Aunt Vivian on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

Tawkin' With the Roses, the new weekly talk show hosted by veteran actress Bonnie Rose and cabaret star Stephen S. Miller (aka “Mama Rose”), will welcome Reid as the guest for the premiere episode of the show on Wednesday, Feb. 10th.

Virginia Stage Company launches a virtual presentation of The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the '61 Freedom Riders, a collaboration with Norfolk State University Theatre Company. 

Everyone remembers Daphne Maxwell Reid as an iconic TV mom of the 1990s, from her three seasons as Aunt Vivian on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.” 

Thanks to a grant from Virginia Humanities, Norfolk State University, Virginia  Stage Company Public Works, New Calvary Baptist Church, and Norfolk Public Schools, Public Works Artist and NSU Social Work Assistant Professor Jason Sawyer, in partnership with Theatre Arts Director, Kimberly Ambrose, and theatre students from Booker T. Washington High School's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts explore ideas of community, housing, gentrification, and what makes a home in response to current local community conditions in Hampton Roads. The episodes will be presented alongside New Calvary Baptist Church's MAAFA - the story of the black experience in America from the middle passage to modern times.  

Today's subject Marva Hicks is currently living her theatre life onstage at Signature Theatre in the World Premiere Musical Gun & Powder. The production runs through February 23rd in Signature's MAX Theatre space. You'll be able to see my review of the show on Broadway World soon. Trust me it will be worth the wait.

The Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University will stage Virginia Grise's 'blu' Feb. 6-9 in the PSH Foundation Studio Theatre.

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's first novel comes to life at the Wells Theatre. The Bluest Eye, directed by Khanisha Foster, follows the story of young Pecola in 1940's Ohio who is pregnant at her father's hands. She is taken in by a loving family and cared for by brilliant and kind sisters, Frieda and Claudia. The character-driven play, both poetic and daringly funny, illuminates the destructive powers of racism and class dynamics while exploring the power of community through exquisite storytelling. The Bluest Eye is produced in collaboration with Norfolk State University Theatre Company.

Charlotte's Web - the beloved children's book and feature film - is heading to the Little Theater stage in Charleston, WV. Presented by The Children's' Theatre of Charleston (CTOC), the show is sure to enthrall both the young and the young at heart as they watch this moving and humorous tale about friendship and loss.

Join The Children's Theatre of Charleston (CTOC) as they celebrate 85 years of producing theatre in West Virginia with their next production, High School Musical. For one week only you can catch this show, based on the beloved film series, on stage at the Clay Center in Charleston, WV! Bring the family and together enjoy this heartwarming, hilarious, family friendly, and catchy musical hit.