The Robey Theatre Company marks its 30th anniversary with a special event on November 16, celebrating three decades of amplifying Black stories and voices.
Forget counseling, Shawn Jones-Murray lets his feet do the talking. Born in Minneapolis and raised in Chicago, he grew up in a family where dance was not just a hobby, it was a way to end arguments and keep the peace.
Director Gregg T. Daniel and A Noise Within theatre remain dedicated to highlighting all of August Wilson’s powerful ‘American Century Cycle’ series of plays by staging the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “The Piano Lesson.”
“For me, I love Green Day through my love of rock. I love rock music, and I feel—I know—Black people created rock,” said Rucker. “As with most genres, we’ve created it, and I see strong parallels between gospel music and rock. That’s part of my enjoyment in how I sing rock.”
From a small Midwestern town to the heart of Hollywood, filmmaker Joshua Anyasike—known musically as King JA—has journeyed across continents to pursue his dream. Born in Kazakhstan and raised in Dawson, Minnesota, he is now set to debut his thesis film “Lujah” at the Los Angeles Film School.
Dave Harris is a storyteller whose words transcend the stage, challenging societal norms and inviting audiences into profound reflection. Whether through plays, films, or television, his fearless approach to writing is rooted in vulnerability and a deep interrogation of race, class, and identity.
August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” deals profoundly with ancestry and heritage, which makes it all the more fitting that the new film adaptation, produced by Denzel Washington and directed by his son Malcolm, is a family affair.
Amongst many stage productions, and film and television adaptations of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Iwuji said playwright Martin Crimp’s translation of the piece is different because it is “sexy, hilarious, and modern.”
“The Just and The Blind,” the acclaimed work by spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, came to The Ford in the Hollywood Hills on August 2. Roughly 500 concert-goers braved Friday rush hour for an evening of poetry, music, movement, and film projections that explored themes of racial profiling, sentencing, and the prison-industrial complex from the perspective of fathers of Black and Brown children.
On August 2, 1924, iconic American writer and civil rights activist James Balwin was born. Worldwide, people are gathering and creating to commemorate the occasion
Darrel “Friidom” Dunn is a multifaceted artist and movement innovator.
He continued, “In the Yoruba tradition, Ogun, Oshoosi, and Elegba come to you together. They are three warriors, and in this story of these three men named after these three ancestors – they’ll always be connected.”
Jay-Z’s electrifying reunion with Alicia Keys on what appeared to be a live duet of “Empire State of Mind” at the Tony Awards on June 16 was actually pre-taped, a show official who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press.
Stewart said you will not get a watered-down version of “Jelly” to make him more palatable to audiences. “It’s human. It’s visceral. We all have the capacity, in my opinion, for any and everything, and in doing that it makes redemption that much ,” said Stewart.
McCaskill described “A Strange Loop” as a “very meta-musical.” A meta-musical is theatrical commentary about stagecraft. “It’s about a Disney usher whose name is “Usher,” and he’s writing a musical about an usher writing a musical,” commented McCaskill.