Tony Award-winning actress, LaChanze, will star in the Broadway premiere of Trouble in Mind written by Alice Childress. The production opens at the Roundabout Theatre...
Two-time Tony-winner Viola Davis (2001, Best Featured Actress in a Play, King Headley II, 2010, Best Actress in a Play, Fences) is keeping busy while her ABC...
Hip hop mogul, and lets not forget, Tony Award-winner, Russell Simmons (Def Poetry Jam 2002) is set to bring the genre back to Broadway with Scenario,...
Tony-winners Anika Noni-Rose (2004, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Caroline, or Change) and Tonya Pinkins (1992, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Jelly’s Last Jam) are teaming...
Cicely Tyson will receive the Living Legend Award at this year’s Black Girls Rock, presented by BET. Tyson made her Broadway debut in Jolly’s Progress (1959) as Eartha Kitt’s understudy....
British playwright and actress Zawe Ashton has joined the cast of HBO’s Salem Witch Trials pilot, The Devil You Know, from Orange is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan. Described...
Tony-nominee Norm Lewis’ rich baritone is set to radiate on an episode of PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center titled Norm Lewis: Who Am I? Broadway’s first Black...
Tony and Drama Desk-winner Billy Porter is set to light PBS on fire with his Live from Lincoln Center show Billy Porter: Broadway & Soul. Putting a jazz-influenced spin...
Emmy Award winner and star of Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black Uzo Aduba will be Othello, opposite Heather Lind’s Desdemona, and Cynthia Nixon’s Emilia in Public Forum’s Drama Club: An...
Grantham Coleman joins Tessa Ferrer and Michael Stahl-David in the forthcoming Public Theater production and New York premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer. Jackson left his tough Brooklyn neighborhood by winning...
The New York City Children’s Theater (formerly known as Making Books Sing) will present a production of A BAND OF ANGELS, which originally premiered in 2005....
The Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida announced March 6th that they would be mounting the world premiere of Josephine, an original Broadway-bound musical about the life of American-born...
From April 10th to May 10th, the Black Repertory Group Theater in Berkeley, California will stage a production of James Baldwin’s powerful play The Amen Corner, under the...