Afro-American narratives are experiencing a meteoric surge in the proliferation of the modern mainstream liberal white consciousness in the nation, critics will say, and they aren't wrong. W…
Novelists seem infatuated by the Jazz Age. Whether it's "Lost Generation" authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, The Curious Cas…
When NBC's The Wiz Live! aired on December 3, 2015, Kenny Leon, the Tony Award-winning Atlanta-based theatre director won laurels of praise from insiders and viewers alike. A co-produc…
On Aug. 3, two weeks after celebrating her 32nd wedding anniversary with husband Norm Nixon, director-choreographer Debbie Allen announced that she will be at the helm of a brand new musical…
Unless you were under a rock, we hope you were tuned into the livestream video broadcast of the unforgettable and star-studded Broadway For Black Lives Matter benefit concert that took pl…
On July 26, Tony Award-winning film actor and Broadway entertainer Ben Vereen advocated for arts education in schools by speaking on behalf of Americans for the Arts, the principal nonprofit…
On Wednesday night, July 27, at the 2016Â Democratic National Convention in Convention Hall in Philadelphia, a cavalcade of Broadway stars performed the charity single "What the World Need…
Since replacing actors Billy Porter and Wayne Brady, Broadway veteran actor-singer Timothy Ware-Hill took on a role with the ever-popular Kinky Boots as Lola, the fabulous beyond compare …
In advance of the long-awaited West End premiere of Dreamgirls, show-runners released a four-minute video recording that has immediately turned the upcoming production of the American musica…
Twenty-four years after it opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway (then named the Virginia Theatre), George C. Wolfe's universally admired musical Jelly's Last Jam has been annou…
With the critically acclaimed Shuffle Along, Or The Making Of The Musical Sensation Of 1921 And All That Followed closing on July 24, Tony Award winner Billy Porter refuses to sit still. …
Harold Perrineau, veteran TV and film actor (HBO's "Oz," FX's "Sons of Anarchy"), returns to the New York stage on September 15, starring as Yermolai Alexeievitch Lopakhin, for an all-star p…
Given the overwhelming achievement of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize winning White House musical bio-drama about Alexander Hamilton"the virtually forgotten U.S. Founding Fathe…
A dozen actors and creatives"including Kenny Leon, Alex Lacamoire, Audra McDonald, Sophie Okonedo, Ruthie Ann Miles and more"weigh in on the season that challenged the status quo and raised …
According to her producer, Deborah Cox was born to play Josephine, but the recording artist knew she'd have to earn it.
Taissa Farmiga makes her stage debut Off-Broadway, so her co-stars are showing her the ropes.
The Academy Awards failed to recognize minority actors this year, but theatre pushes further to spotlight the gay black man's story.