Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the first Broadway production of its 2023-2024 season. The world premiere of Jocelyn Bioh's Jaja's African Hair Braiding will bow at the Samuel …
Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the first production in its 2023-2024 Broadway season. The world premiere of "Jaja's African Hair Braiding," written by Jocelyn Bioh, will open at the Fr…
The world premiere will be directed by Whitney White.
Jaja's African Hair Braiding, a new play written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, will make its Broadway debut in a world premiere production by the Manhattan Theatre Club next…
Manhattan Theatre Club will open its 2023-24 Broadway season with Bioh's new play.
This week we discuss MiloÅ¡ Forman's 1979 film adaptation of the iconic Broadway show. Angie considers if Amadeus is a musical actually, and Kaveh gets hung up on hairlines. See Privacy P…
After a two-year hiatus, Melissa Errico is performing a slew of gigs honoring the composers Michel Legrand and Stephen Sondheim. As long as she gets to the airport (which airport again?) on …
In the Pulitzer Prize"winning play now at Studio, the brilliant local actor plays a gender-nonconforming gay Black male who has found a new family.
Weyni Mengesha will direct the Trey Anthony play about clients at a Caribbean hair salon in Toronto.
(Benjamin Lee's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/22.) The award-winning writer, whose hit musical originally opened on Broadway in the late 60s, died in New York City of cardiorespiratory…
His production earned him a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album in 1969
Rado and two others wrote the groundbreaking hippie musical which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway.
James Rado, the Tony and Grammy-winning co-creator of the fan-favorite musical Hair, died peacefully on June 21 in New York City surrounded by his family; the cause was cardio respirat…
Sad news about the death of James Rado, co-creator of "Hair." I interviewed the 90-year-old Rado for a story for Encore Monthly magazine last fall. Joan Marcus took this terrific portrait of…
Rado co-wrote the legendary show and was the original Claude.
James Rado, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning sole surviving co-creator of the ground-breaking Broadway musical HAIR - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, died peacefully Tuesday eveni…
Working with his fellow writer and actor Gerome Ragni and the composer Galt MacDermot, he jolted Broadway into the Age of Aquarius.
James Rado, who along with his friend and writing partner Gerome Ragni created Broadway's seminal Age of Aquarius musical Hair, died peacefully Tuesday evening of cardio respiratory arrest i…
The award-winning writer, whose hit musical originally opened on Broadway in the late 60s, died in New York City of cardiorespiratory arrest James Rado, the award-winning co-creator of Hair,…
James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical "Hair," which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway, has died.
The Chicago-based comedian and storyteller is the creator and host of the popular weekly comedy show "Blackout Diaries" which focuses on drinking stories and "hilarious misadventures" peopl…
Acclaimed digital Broadway creators Michael Korte & Bryson Camper are back with a new, soul-shaking reimagining of 'Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine' from the show HAIR.Â
The reimagined take comes from Michael Korte and Bryson Camper, creators of viral mashups #HAM4BEY and Elphaba in the Bathroom.
Levy, on Broadway earlier this season in the Tony-nominated revival of Caroline, or Change, can currently be seen Off-Broadway in the new musical The Bedwetter.
The concert is presented by Black Theatre Coalition in partnership with Creating in Color Music.