Tony-winners Anika Noni-Rose (2004, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Caroline, or Change) and Tonya Pinkins (1992, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Jelly’s Last Jam) are teaming up again (they...
At the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Saturday, Scandal star and activist Kerry Washington was honored with the Vanguard Award for her...
Cicely Tyson will receive the Living Legend Award at this year’s Black Girls Rock, presented by BET. Tyson made her Broadway debut in Jolly’s Progress (1959) as Eartha Kitt’s understudy. She went...
Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and NAACP Image Award winner Alfre Woodard has a new film opening the New Voices in Black Cinema festival. Ben Bowman’s Knucklehead, an indie drama starring...
British playwright and actress Zawe Ashton has joined the cast of HBO’s Salem Witch Trials pilot, The Devil You Know, from Orange is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan. Described as a...
Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins (1992, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Jelly’s Last Jam) can be seen on stage at The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature...
If you’ve ever been to 54 Below then, you know the room as an energy of its own. This night was no different. However, the feeling was...
National Black Theatre, known for their superb and well thought-out programming, put together some wonderful events for Women’s History Month. Those events included “Voices of Muslim Women” and “Discovering...
If you have not heard of the Netflix original series “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, then you are truly missing out on a gem. The series premiered on Netflix on...
Tony-nominee Norm Lewis’ rich baritone is set to radiate on an episode of PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center titled Norm Lewis: Who Am I? Broadway’s first Black Phantom (Phantom...
The return of The Color Purple has been all the rave, especially since Oprah called Jennifer Hudson and asked her to play Shug Avery in the...
Tony and Drama Desk-winner Billy Porter is set to light PBS on fire with his Live from Lincoln Center show Billy Porter: Broadway & Soul. Putting a jazz-influenced spin on Broadway...
Here at Broadway Black we’ve wanted to really sit down and pick the brains of the Leads & Legends who have paved the way and those...
A trio of Broadway Black powerhouses are set to collaborate on an important but forgotten hit. Audra McDonald will return to the theater next spring in...
Emmy Award winner and star of Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black Uzo Aduba will be Othello, opposite Heather Lind’s Desdemona, and Cynthia Nixon’s Emilia in Public Forum’s Drama Club: An Evening with...
Chris Chalk, last seen on Broadway in 2010 in the revival of August Wilson’s Fences, opposite Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, has joined the cast of Fox’s...