By Rainier Pearl-Styles. Educator Rainier Pearl-Styles recounts their experience of devising a show in response to Shakespeare's Macbeth, using tenets of Paolo Freire's theory of liberatory …
Writing Using is the most recent work by Ahn Aesoon, one of the most renowned contemporary dancers and choreographers in South Korea. She served as the artistic director of the Korea Nationa…
I ended up watching a couple of "sad people shows" â„¢ done in very different styles but both with a languid thoughtfulness. ********************************** Summer StrikeI found Im …
The Britney Spears jukebox musical, about fairy tale princesses fighting for their emancipation, comes up short as a narrative of feminist awakening.
By . The first year of the We Will Dream: New Works Festival was a success!
This is true, exciting storefront theater, set in a literal, narrow storefront on 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood. It's challenging, passionate, and beautifully in your face.
The program offers playwrights dramaturgical and career support over a 10-month period, with the aim completing a draft of an original full-length play.
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Harlem-born director Tazewell Thompson shares his thoughts on the NY Phil's upcoming concert program "The March to Liberation," an exploration of the musical heritage of Black culture throug…
A Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film finds exhilarating new ways to make the gender comedy sing.
In Donja R. Love's new play, an English teacher struggles against the penal system " and with his own guilt " to help students see a future beyond prison.
Playwrights Calley N. Anderson, Brysen Boyd, Devon Kidd, and Zakeia Tyson-Cross will participate in LTC's 2022-23 Writing Residency Program, beginning in May.
For the final episode of 2021, Brian talks to the writer of 'Suicide Forest' about roles that are different than, and closer to, their true self.
Don Reed Says What We've All Been Thinking by Barry David Horwitz Don Reed does it all"he stars in TV, movies, stand-up, and just plain showing up"always with a great presence, a lilting voi…
Pass Over, written by Antoinette Nwandu, is a message about the Black Liberation Movement. The first work by a Black playwright at the August Wilson Theatre is an Afro-Surrealist play that o…
The Declaration of Interdependence Mixtape is an artistic expression of the hurts and hopes of the Creating Equal Steering Committee. The mixtape comes in the traditional two-part, Side A…
A Very Present Presence, written by Ann Timmons and directed by Catherine Tripp, is the latest streaming offering from the women's collective Pipeline Playwrights. Timmons states that this c…
On August 25, 1944, the Allied Forces rolled into Paris and the city was freed. The COVID-19 pandemic has been just as traumatic as a world war. And the hugely successful vaccines are the eq…
Beverly Hills' The Wallis and Black Rebirth Collective are presenting a co-production of UNMASKED: A Theatrical Celebration of Black Women's Liberation " filmed in The Wallis's Lovelace Stud…
For International Dance Day, today we fondly share remembrances of the Dance Liberation Front. 20+ years ago (circa 1999), all of the performers and producers from Surf Reality and Collectiv…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts joins Yasha Lelonek for the newest episode of #ArtsAcrossAmerica. 🎶🌎 Yasha Lelonek is an actress, director, and multimedia …
The Broadway alum is finding peace and purpose with The Realness Project, a full-length album from his funk liberation band.
Of the 94 books on the Black Liberation Reading List from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center, only three are plays: "Fences" by August Wilson, "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine H…
Thinking about The Boys in the Band, Broadway, and Chicago Last weekend, I watched Ryan Murphy's Netflix production of The Boys in the Band, adapted from Mart Cr…
The Boys in the Band, a remake of a 1970 film based on a 1968 play, has arrived on Netflix with little fanfare. The film tells the story of Michael, a Hermés scarf-loving, Manhattan-dwel…