MCA Chicago to Spotlight Black Creativity This August
by Julie Musbach - July 31, 2019 This August, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents three innovative performances celebrating black creativity in music and dance, from jazz and gospel to step and social dancing....
BWW Review: FREEDA PEOPLES Shakes the Foundation of The Ensemble Theatre
by Bryan-Keyth Wilson - April 10, 2019 If you're a churchgoer and specifically a member of a black church, the issues in this production aren't foreign. In this story, we learn about backsliding deacons, disgruntled church elders, and hate towards the new pastor. Not saying that every church has these issues, but if you aren't in a churc...
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill Announces Shows, Now thru 7/23
by BWW News Desk - July 09, 2012 The following are the complete and current upcoming event listings for today, July 9 - July 23, 2012 at B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, NYC....
Boston Landmarks Orchestra to Celebrate 20th Season With Return To Live Music
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 09, 2021 Boston Landmarks Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Christopher Wilkins celebrates its 20th anniversary season with the return of live orchestral music to the iconic DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade this summer-the first live and free professional symphony concerts in Boston si...
DakhaBrakha, Taylor Mac, Mark Morris Dance, IF/THEN and More Highlight Seattle Theatre Group's 2015-16 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2015 Art & culture are vital to our existence and Seattle Theatre Group's 2015-2016 season features ample offerings of live performance experiences from arts provocateurs, global masters, cultural icons, and contemporary legends....
Composer Matthew Head Talks PBS' THE BLACK CHURCH On Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 16, 2021 THE BLACK CHURCH's composer Matthew Head joins Tom Needham on the next SOUNDS OF FILM. Emmy-winning composer Matthew Head (P-Valley) scored PBS and WETA's upcoming 'The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song.' His inspiration for creating the score and brand new gospel songs comes from hi...
John Buffington Releases 300 PLUS YEARS OF SACRIFICE, STRUGGLE, FAITH AND PERSEVERANCE
by BWW News Desk - April 08, 2013 Author John Buffington carefully pens a provocative, interesting and no-holds-barred book that boldly narrates the history and the harrowing and poignant journey of the black church towards redemption, freedom and progress in 300 PLUS YEARS of SACRIFICE, STRUGGLE, FAITH and PERSEVERANCE. This volume...
8 Awesome Things You'll Find at Fertile Ground
by Krista Garver - January 19, 2018 The 2018 Fertile Ground Festival is an 11-day city-wide festival of new works featuring more than 70 works, from lunchtime readings of new plays to dance performances and fully staged world premieres....
San Francisco Opera Returns To Live Performances, Presents Online Ring Festival and Launches New Original Digital Programming
by Stephi Wild - February 17, 2021 San Francisco Opera Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock announces re-envisioned Spring 2021 programming including a return to live performances with a new production of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville and concerts offered in a drive-in setting at San Rafael's Marin Cente...
TV One Premieres AMAZING GRACE: DRAMA IN THE BLACK CHURCH Tonight
by TV News Desk - March 30, 2013 TV One's Washington Watch with Roland Martin will tackle the themes of power, corruption and redemption in the Black church when it's primetime special Amazing Grace: Drama In the Black Church...
BWW Review: PORGY AND BESS at The Metropolitan Opera
by Joanna Barouch - September 26, 2019 Opening Night at the Metropolitan Opera! The very words tingle with palpable electricity and anticipation. Whether you attend in person, or go to the Times Square simulcast, or whether you listen on the radio or on the Met website, you are participating in one of the most thrilling events of the Ne...
Fertile Ground Reviews: THE CONTRACT, A WOMAN IN WASHINGTON'S ARMY, THE APE THEATRE COMEDY HOUSE PARTY
by Krista Garver - January 25, 2018 Fertile Ground 2018 continues to be amazing. Here's what I thought about two staged readings and a comedy show!...
Kennedy Center Unveils 50th Anniversary Season Including a Fall Reopening
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 06, 2021 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced plans for its 50th Anniversary season, slated to begin in September 2021 with a grand reopening of its stages and campus and culminate in September 2022 with a fresh interpretation of the seminal work that opened the Center in 1971, ...
A Cappella Ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock to Return to Carnegie Hall Next Month
by BWW News Desk - January 12, 2016 Grammy Award-nominated a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock -- internationally renowned for seamlessly traversing musical genres through vibrant song, dance, and storytelling -- returns to Carnegie Hall on Thursday, February 11 at 8:00 p.m. for a performance in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Sta...
Skylight Music Theatre Has Announced Cast and Creative Team For THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 20, 2019 Skylight Music Theatre today announced the cast and creative team for The Gospel at Colonus running January 17-26, 2020 in the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway, in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward....
Watch the Trailer for HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 20, 2020 The new trailer for HAM : A Musical Memoir has been released ahead of the film's virtual theatrical and streaming release. ...
Los Angeles Master Chorale Announces GALA 2021: SHINE BRIGHT
by A.A. Cristi - April 15, 2021 This special online experience will be hosted by Broadway legend Patti LuPone....
A Cappella Ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock Returns to Carnegie Hall Tonight
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2016 Grammy Award-nominated a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock -- internationally renowned for seamlessly traversing musical genres through vibrant song, dance, and storytelling -- returns to Carnegie Hall tonight, February 11 at 8:00 p.m. for a performance in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage....
Jones Family Singers Coming to Center for the Arts, 2/5
by Tyler Peterson - January 11, 2016 The rollicking gospel and R&B band The Jones Family Singers come to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on February 5 at 8 p.m....
Cast Announced For DC Premiere Of PASS OVER At Studio Theatre
by Stephi Wild - February 06, 2020 Studio Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for the DC premiere of Pass Over, playwright Antoinettea??Nwandu'sa??incisive examination of race and cyclical violence in America. The production runs March 4-April 5, 2020 and will be directed bya??Psalmayenea??24.a??Starring are Christopher ...
The Fourth Annual Harvard-Yale Cantata Comes to Feinstein's/54 Below On Sept 13
by Julie Musbach - August 06, 2018 FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, again presents a cast of Harvard and Yale grads in The Fourth Annual Harvard-Yale Cantata. Join us for a unique evening at Feinstein's/54 Below, with Team Harvard looking to avenge another lucky one-point victory by Team Yale, who won in HY III for the s...
Vy Higginsen's Gospel Choir from Harlem to Host Concert Series This Spring
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2017 Vy Higginsen and The Mama Foundation for The Arts announces their first Harlem Gospel Concert Series starring Vy Higginsen's Gospel Choir from Harlem at The Dempsey Theater, 127 West 127th Street starting April 15th at 2:00pm and continuing the first three Saturdays of May (6th, 13th & 20th) at 4:30...
ABC News Announces PANDEMIC - A NATION DIVIDED
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 19, 2020 ABC News announced today it will present special coverage for three days across ABC News to examine the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities amid the coronavirus pandemic....
Washington National Opera Announces 2021-2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 13, 2021 Washington National Opera today announced its 2021–2022 season featuring a triumphant return to the Opera House stage, four world premiere commissions celebrating the Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary, debuts from acclaimed and rising opera stars, the return to the pit for Principal Conductor Evan R...
Sam Harris Launches Kickstarter to Film One-Man Show HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2016 Sam Harris, the Tony award-winning actor, recording artist, playwright, composer, director and best-selling author, is bringing his critically beloved one-man show HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR to audiences everywhere.... |