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Theatre Review: Tracy Wilson Scott’s “The Good Negro” at The Public Theater

On November 5, 2008 millions saw Civil Rights activist and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Reverend Jesse Jackson, with tears streaming down his face as President-elect Barack Obama took to the...

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Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Holliday — On Stage Together

Jennifer Hudson shocked the concert audience a couple of days ago in Atlanta with surprise guest Jennifer Holliday. They performed And I’m Telling You (I’m Not Going) together. Holliday first made the...

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Sing Harlem Sing

Sing Harlem Sing! is a musical written by Vy Higginsen and directed by Ken Wydro (creators of the long running musical Mama I Want To Sing!). The Musical tells the story of Higginsen’s groundbreaking...

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Downtown Urban Theater Festival

*** Friday, May 8 *** THE KING’S MISTRESS by Patricia Ione Lloyd — The stolen kisses and desires of a king and the dreams of the women who loved him. This fictionalized tale of Dr. Martin Luther King,...

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Volcano’s Birthright{s}

Written and performed by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene and directed by Maija Garcia, Volcano’s Birthright{s} is a one-woman, multi-media theatrical production that fuses poetry, choreography, film and...

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Cozi Sa Wala: Magic Words

Cozi Sa Wala: Magic Words unites the two worlds of an American-born Ghanaian woman by introducing the audience to a series of characters who are attending a funeral party, while simultaneously passing...

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Where My Girls At?

This hilarious comedy let’s the audience decide which Black Lesbian will fill the last slot on a reality t.v. show for Black women. Audiences will laugh, sing and learn how to be successful in...

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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

August Wilson’s JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE is set in a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911. Owners Seth and Bertha Holly play host to a makeshift family of people who come to stay, some for days, some...

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Ultimate Latina Theater Festival

Latino Flavored Productions will host the second annual Ultimate Latina Theater Festival at the  Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The festival is a collection of plays that...

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Ashanti Stars in the Wiz

The Wiz, starring Ashanti, LaChanze and Orlando Jones, will open on Thursday, June 18 at New York City Center. (Previews begin June 12). The Wiz, was a 1974 rock and soul musical based on a story...

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Theatre Review — Pulitzer Prize Winner Ruined by Lynn Nottage

Saidah Arrika Ekulona (left) and Condola Rashad in Lynn Nottage’s ‘Ruined’ at the Manhattan Manhattan Theatre ClubClub Photo: Wall Street Journal ***** Last year HBO premiered The Greatest Silence:...

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Crime Against Humanity at the East Harlem Cafe

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Crime Against Humanity at the East Harlem Cafe

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The Wiz in Harlem at Aaron Davis Hall

Join Dorothy Gale and her friends as they, “ease on down the road” to the Emerald City where they meet the most powerful and coolest ruler in all of children’s literature – The Wiz. The Harlem...

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The Riverside Theatre and BeBop Theatre Collective Celebrate Sonia Sanchez

Sanchez’s first play, The Bronx Is Next, is a provoking commentary on interracial racism and interracial sexism that premiered in The Drama Review in 1968.  The play follows Charles, Roland and...

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Another Man’s Poison

Off-Broadway Limited Engagement 2 Weeks Only: August 12 – 16 and August 19 – 23 at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater 416 West 42nd Street • NYC (between 9th Av & 10th Av) … ANOTHER MAN’S POISON...

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Harlem Stage Reading of Sleep Deprivation Chamber and Community Forum on Race...

A staged reading of OBIE Award-winning play “Sleep Deprivation Chamber” about police brutality and its impact on a black family – written by Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy – forms the backdrop...

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Theatre Review — Another Man’s Poison

Penelope Lowder (Pauline) and Leland Gantt (Frankie Masters) Photo Credit: Joan Marcus *** As American perceptions on race are constantly changing, notions of identity continue to shift and require...

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La Menta Collective — Friends. Artists. Collaborators.

La Menta Collective is a new initiative providing a platform for new and emerging artists of various art forms. The Collective seeks to provide an avenue for artistic growth. Through regular...

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Flahooley in Harlem

FLAHOOLEY is an allegorical musical tale for audiences of all ages is set in fictional Capsulanti, USA, which is the site of B.G. Bigelow, Incorporated, the largest toy corporation in the world....

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