Imagine a nightclub stripped bare of the blaring music, strobe lights, and anonymous bodies crowding the dance floor. Instead, Heart of Brick, a new theatrical production from experimental R…
It's the summer before the 1997-98 basketball season and the Lady Train, a standout high school team from a remote warren of southeast Arkansas, is in pursuit of a state title. But, as with …
NEW YORK (AP) " The intimate, funny-sad musical "Kimberly Akimbo" nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed it…
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw has a reputation for tap dancing on third rails, cemented by previous works such as Job, Prophet, and Thomas & Sally " yes that Thomas and that Sally.* With Th…
Men these days are Not OK. American men, like their counterparts around the globe, are in crisis. They are succumbing to deaths of despair, struggling with alienation and are responsible for…
Tap dancer Ayodele Casel was driving when she got the call. A representative from the Doris Duke Foundation was on the line to inform her she was one of six artists in the newest class of Do…
Suzanne Alexander, much like the woman who created her, has been waiting for a small eternity to be heard. Alexander, the character at the center of Ohio State Murders, is the brainchild…
If you ask Wendell Pierce to define who he is, the answer is measured, thoughtful, and takes into account all he has learned through the years. "Wendell Pierce is a Black man who grew up in …
When tap star Ayodele Casel and jazz pianist Arturo O'Farrill improvise together, it is impossible to tell who is leading each new thought as O'Farrill shifts between melodies and Casel vari…
With every performance of Paradise Square, star Joaquina Kalukango has brought down the house with a teary, snot-nosed, full-throated rendition of "Let it Burn." Sunday night, America witnes…
One of the first things a photography student learns about is a concept known as depth of field. If a person focuses a lens on an object in their foreground, they must compromise on renderin…
It was bound to happen. A producer or two was going to witness the money-printing, multiyear grip Hamilton had on Broadway and pop culture at large and try to replicate it with another multi…
It's taken nearly 20 years and Ja-heez-us knows how many rewrites from book writer, lyricist and composer Michael R. Jackson, but A Strange Loop has finally bewitched Broadway. The 2020 winn…
Amid a plague, both of disease and revanchism, Monday morning's Tony nominations announcement offered history-making and hope with a bevy of stacked categories. Tony winners Adrienne War…
The Scottish play might be a tragedy, but that doesn't mean it can't be loads of fun. A new Broadway production of Macbeth opened April 28 starring James Bond " sorry, Daniel Craig " as Macb…
Two years after playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson was named the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in drama, his musical, A Strange Loop, is finally making its "big, Black and queer" Broa…
In the world constructed by Dominique Morisseau in her new off-Broadway play, there are two kinds of confederates: the ones who think you're too radical, and the ones who don't think you're …
In 2019, poet and essayist Claudia Rankine wrote a controversial piece in The New York Times called, I Wanted To Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. That essay rec…
Florida A&M professor Luther D. Wells and alumnus Reginald L. Wilson are taking Sugar Ray, a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, to an off-Broadway theater. The two co…
Anna Deavere Smith's play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 has been performed numerous times since its premiere in 1993. Back in the early '90s, Smith conducted 320 interviews with residents of L…
When Ron Simons was 39 and working at Microsoft, he decided to quit his corporate job to pursue his dream of acting. Simons had been an engineer and software developer to support his family.…
Douglas Lyons is making his Broadway playwriting debut this season with his family comedy Chicken & Biscuits, which opens Sunday. Lyons is a Black writer. And in his 30s. Broadway is not…
A new group is aiming to make a sea change on Broadway by vaulting Black people into some of its most powerful positions. Broadway producers Barbara Broccoli (Once, The Band's Visit), Li…
After a global pandemic made for the most calamitous year in the history of American theater, actor Adrienne Warren and playwright Katori Hall are among the many Tony nominees who will final…
There was a time when Black dignity on screen wasn't guaranteed. It had to be fought for and insisted upon, repeatedly. And Cicely Tyson, who died Jan. 28 at age 96, led a generation of path…