Visionary, Leader in the Black Theatre Movement, Beloved Professor, Actor & Director NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY – May 26, 2020 – Lee Kenneth Richardson, Co-Founder of the Crossroads Theatre Company passed away Sunday May 24 at the age of 69. … Continue reading Crossroads Theatre Company Co-Founder Lee Richardson Dies
Welcome to Black Theatre Matters! I’m your host, Gary Anderson. This is a teaser episode where I take a moment to explain how this podcast came to be. After listening I invite you to like, follow, and subscribed to Black … Continue reading Black Theatre Matters S1E1:”Why?” A Teaser Episode
In the coming weeks, Plowshares Theatre Company will begin developing it’s successful Salon series of audience engagement into a new online program. The idea is to share information from previous salons digitally with a new audience online while we await … Continue reading Plowshares Salons Go Online
Plowshares Theatre Company is jumping into the world of podcasting. The Detroit-based theatre is launching a podcast Monday, May 25 called “Black Theatre Matters,” which “explores the various production aspects, topics of interest and dynamics of Black Theatre. In other … Continue reading Plowshares Theatre Company to Start “Black Theatre Matters” Podcast in May
Jeremy O. Harris and his thought-provoking new work, Slave Play, has caused quite a stir since it premiered last November during the New York Theatre Workshop’s 2018-19 Season. That hasn’t stopped since the play moved to Broadway’s John Golden Theatre this … Continue reading Access over Capitalism on Broadway
New Lafayette Theatre’s founder is threatened with eviction. Continue reading CALL TO ACTION: Robert Macbeth, Founder of New Lafayette Theatre, threatened with homelessness
Beginning two years ago I traveled around the country, interviewing a number of Black Theatre artists and administrators and inviting about 70 Black Theatre organizations to participate in a study looking at the status of Black Theatre in North America. … Continue reading Black Theatre Survey 2016-2017 Released
Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater has announced the details of its upcoming 2017-2018 season. Probably the most anticipated part of the programming will be a stage adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s #1 New York Times bestseller BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME. The show – scheduled … Continue reading Apollo Theater to Present Ta-Nehisi Coates’s BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
Award-winning playwright James Ijames’ KILL MOVE PARADISE will close Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre (NBT) 48th season ‘In Pursuit of Black Joy.’ The provocative production runs from May 31 through June 25. The play shines otherworldly light on police brutality … Continue reading National Black Theatre announces the Cast for the World Premiere of KILL MOVE PARADISE
Newly installed President and CEO of United States Artists (USA) Deana Haggag prepares to wage war on behalf of individual artists against proposed NEA funding cuts. Continue reading United States Artists CEO Deana Haggag wages war against proposed NEA funding cuts
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture recently unveiled several pieces from the James Baldwin Archives Continue reading The Schomburg Center unveils several unseen pieces from the James Baldwin Archives
Lynn Nottage’s SWEAT Wins 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Continue reading Lynn Nottage Wins 2nd Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her play SWEAT
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