It’s fitting that the conversation will include a discussion on Black theatre as Domingo, who starred in the historical dramas “The Butler” and “Selma,” is no stranger to topics regarding equal rights for African Americans and the LGBT community. Last December, he was photographed with “Selma” director Ava DuVernay and fellow “Selma” cast members David Oyelowo, E. Roger Mitchell, Wendell Pierce, Omar Dorsey, John Lavelle, Stephan James, Kent Faulcon, Lorraine Toussaint, Andre Holland, and Tessa Thompson at the film’s New York premiere wearing “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts and raising their arms in the “don’t shoot” pose in a striking statement against police brutality.

In a previous interview for “The Advocate,” Domingo, who is gay, spoke on his role in social activism. “What my community asks of me, what the world asks of me, is to be useful and to use my gifts, and to hopefully shine a light on something which hasn’t been said, or to write something I feel needs to be added to the experiences not only of African-Americans, but of humans and human nature,”

The Tony nominated actor is currently appearing in a recurring role as “Strand” in the AMC series “Fear the Walking Dead” and is slated to appear in the Cinemax series “The Knick.” Domingo’s stage credits include Scottsboro Boys, for which he received his Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. He also was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical when the show opened in London. Domingo also starred as “Billy Flynn” in the Broadway revival of Chicago. He most recently directed the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s production of August Wilson‘s Seven Guitars.

Domingo also is a heralded playwright, penning a one-man autobiographical play A Boy and His Soul, for which he won GLAAD Award: Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off–Broadway. He also wrote and starred in Wild with Happy in which New York Times reviewer Charles Isherwood called him a “ magnetic, versatile actor.”

In addition to his roles in “Selma” and “The Butler,” Domingo also has appeared in “Lincoln,” and the Spike Lee films “Red Hook Summer,” “Passing Strange,” and “Miracle at St. Ana.”

The Live & Outspoken series features live music, theatrical readings, dance, and provocative interviews and conversation. Tickets can be purchased here.

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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 up again (they appeared on Broadway together in ‘Caroline, Or Change’) for a benefit reading of Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage’s play, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine at New World Stages in Manhattan. Noni-Rose and Pinkins will be joined by Wood Harris (2012 Broadwa

y “multiracial” adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, HBO’s The Wire) and Michael Mastro (2009, Broadway revival of West Side Story). This reading is to be directed by Tony-winner Kenny Leon (2014, Best Direction of a Play), who previously worked with Noni-Rose in his revival of A Raisin in the Sun (for which he won his Tony) in 2014, and Pinkins in Holler If Ya Hear Me in 2013.

This benefit, which is set to happen April 21st, at 6:30 PM is for the non-profit arts education organization Opening Act.

Proceeds of the evening go directly to Opening Act’s free theatre programs.

The non-profit organization provides students attending New York City’s most under-served public schools, the opportunity – through theater – to develop leadership, commitment, confidence, and community. Opening Act provides free after-school and extra-curricular programs to the most high-need NYC public high schools that have low graduation rates and a lack of theater and arts programs. Tickets are now on sale at http://openingact.org/play-reading/.

Noni-Rose can next be seen in the CBS pilot For Justice, opposite fellow Tony-winner Phylicia Rashad (2004, Best Actress in a Play, A Raisin in the Sun), and directed by Ava DuVernay (director of the Oscar-winning film Selma, 2015). Pinkins can currently be seen in Joel Drake Johnson’s Rasheeda Speaking, at the New Group‘s Pershing Square Signature Center through March 22nd.

Up next for Kenny Leon is a revival of the 1980 Tony-winning play Children of a Lesser God, set to bow during the 2015-2016 season.

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