Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre continues to show black excellence
Above: AAADT in Billy Wilson’s The Winter in Lisbon. Photo by Christopher Duggan Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre has wowed audiences for close to 60 years.
Six Theatre Artists Converge for Sundance Institute Retreat at Ucross Foundation
Six theatre artists will be the focus of the 18th annual Sundance Institute Retreat at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, taking place January 23 –
Young Actors Give Audiences a Taste of the Future at YoungArts
Young people from across the United States are in Miami this week to show why they are the nation’s best and brightest creatives.
Lynn Nottage goes to Broadway and other theatre news
The 2016 election taught us that the working class is fed up with the status quo . Lynn Nottage tapped into that anger with her play Sweat , a piece about down and out working class Americans set in Reading , Pensylvania.
An Evening with an Immigrant begins UK tour in March
Born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother in what is now considered by many to be Boko Haram territory, in 1996 award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams left Nigeria for England aged 12, moved to Ireland for three years, before returning to London and starting work as a writer and graphic designer.
Deborah Cox stars in The Body Guard opening January 10
The national tour of the new musical The Bodyguard — based on the film of the same name kicks off its official tour at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN, January 10, 2017.
World premiere of Harrison David Rivers’ powerful play Sweet
The recent onslaught across the country of violence and brutality against Black people have left many African Americans feeling they are suffocating.