There are many traditions that shape the south. Football is king. Fried delicacies. At the Fox Theater in Atlanta, the annual return of the Alvin Ailey...
Danai Gurira has two plays on stage this season. Eclipsed, the highly acclaimed story of Liberian women persevering through civil war, is playing on Broadway at...
Nikki Renée Daniels and André De Shields will star in City Center Encores! highly anticipated production of the revolution based musical 1776. Originally written in 1969 and revived in 1998, the...
Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey are visionaries and calculated risk takers. The two who are the heart and soul of Front Row Productions currently represent the...
The Pasadena Playhouse/Crossroads Theatre Company production of FLY will make its Off-Broadway debut from March 11, 2016 until March 24, 2016 at The New Victory Theater in New York City....
Sports aren’t exactly my ministry. When I read that Marco Ramirez’s, The Royale, is based on the story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of...
Hughie, a 55-minute Eugene O’Neill one-act play starring Forest Whitaker in his Broadway debut, is set to close early because of low ticket sales. The revival, which just opened a...
HBO is getting ready to remind us why Audra McDonald is a six-time Tony Award-winning, history-making actress. If you weren’t able to make it to NYC...
I’ve already deemed 2016 the year of #BlackGirlMagic. 2015 gave us a plethora of Black women shattering glass ceilings in the arts (Misty Copeland! Viola Davis! Danai...
If I had a hero in the theater right now, it would be Danai Gurira. For YEARS, I have been watching this gifted performer KILL it...
Meet me in St. Louis! Seriously. This summer, Grammy Award-winner Michelle Williams, known for being 1/3 of Destiny’s Child, will return to the stage in a...
The York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti Series (Mufti means in street clothes; without the usual trappings) has officially launched, and leading the season is a limited...
“Theater Talk” welcomed the leading ladies of The Color Purple and director John Doyle on its latest episode. Now if you’re not hip, “Theater Talk” offers...
Last Monday night talk shows were filled with #Blackgirlmagic and #BroadwayBlack magic. Not only were we treated to Audra McDonald talking Shuffle Along on Fallon, right...
If you were ever in doubt as to whether Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton has taken over the pop culture consciousness, tune into the Grammys this Sunday. The...
New York City might have been extremely cold the night Broadway Black went to see Colman Domingo’s Dot, but inside the Vineyard Theatre was a story that was...