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A Must See

The Fire This Time Festival A Haven For Diversity

The Fire This Time Festival – complete with 10-minute plays, full-length play readings and solo show excerpts – kicked off its seventh season on...

Broadway BlackJanuary 16, 2016

A Must See

New Hip Hop Musical iLLA Is Creating A New Beat

iLLA: /ilə/ adjective. Exceedingly ill. Greater than. More superior. “His beat is ill, but mine is illa.” Do you have what it takes to...

Broadway BlackDecember 16, 2015

Events and Happenings

New Musical By Phillip Howze Reaches Trans/Queer Youth

In America, it is estimated that 1.6 million youth are homeless each year and that up to 40% of them identify as lesbian, gay,...

Broadway BlackNovember 6, 2015

A Must See

Mike Evariste Heads New Musical, Freedom’s Song

Freedom’s Song, a new musical about a Civil War-era interracial family torn apart by slavery, is set to receive a private, industry-only reading on Nov. 16,...

Broadway BlackOctober 26, 2015

A Must See

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work Series Returns

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the master writer chair at New York’s The Public Theater, launched a new season of her “Watch Me Work”...

Broadway BlackOctober 1, 2015

Coming Soon

Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical Inspired By Little Rock Nine

Lily Polkadot – who has just moved into the Squares Only town of Rockaway – is the first Polkadot in an all-Square school and...

Broadway BlackAugust 27, 2015

Good Works

Listen To All 10 Of August Wilson’s Plays Until Aug. 26

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson was able to capture 100 years of African American life in his riveting, American Century Cycle. The 10 decade-by-decade plays begin in the...

Jazmine Harper-DavisJuly 9, 2015

Dance!

2015 National Black Arts Festival Runs July To September In Atlanta

Art of African descent will be celebrated through music, dance, film, and a variety of interactive activities this July during the 27th annual National...

Broadway BlackJuly 3, 2015