THEATRE
There’s a certain symmetry to the fact that a newish play bearing a title some outlets have deemed too spicy to print or say is about the malleable nature of language itself. “Webster’s Bitch,” a rich if not yet fully conjugated workplace dramedy from playwright Jacqueline Bircher, had its world premiere . . .
While theatre at William & Mary is nearing its 100th anniversary, the history of the African American presence on the mainstage is much more recent – and much less known. As an alumnus and faculty member, Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies Omiyẹmi (Artisia) Green ’00 has both witnessed and played a significant role in […]
LAWRENCE — According to Peter Ukpokodu, theatre and arts have long been associated with community health by how they seem to rejuvenate people’s emotional well-being so they can appreciate life though a new lens. Ukpokodu, the Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of African & African-American Studies, will present “Statements From an Interventionist Theatre Practice” as […]
Left, a scene from one of Pangea World Theater’s Indigenous Voices pieces; top, Shá Cage in “Re-Memori” at Penumbra Theatre; an Aphasic Theatre workshop led by Silk Road Rising at Texas Tech University. Editor’s Note: In partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation and the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, TCG’s THRIVE! Uplifting Theatres of […]
When Robert Brustein died, at ninety-six, he concluded not one but four stunning careers. A critic at The New Republic, off and on, for more than forty years, he was a university professor who founded two major theatres—the Yale Repertory Theatre, in New Haven, and the American Repertory Theatre, at Harvard. He authored more than […]
The Dance Theatre of Harlem is set to return to Detroit, gracing the Detroit Opera House stage Oct. 21-22 for the third stop of the dance troupe’s much-anticipated 2023-2024 tour. Detroit Opera House was the stage for their last visit in 2022, where they presented Claudia Schreier’s “Passage,” a poignant work commissioned to commemorate the […]
The cast of Slippery Rock University’s production of “Grecian Burns” rehearses for their performances at the Stoner East Black Box Theater. Oct. 13, 2023 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — Slippery Rock University’s Theatre Department will present the world premiere of “Grecian Burns,” with five shows, Oct. 27 to Nov. 2 at the Black Box Theater in […]
“In the Heights” at GALA Hispanic Theatre. LOS ANGELES: Latino Theater Company has been awarded a three-year, $5 million award from the Mellon Foundation to spearhead the National Latinx Theater Initiative, a new regranting program intented to boost the national profile of Latinx theatre companies across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, to disperse funds needed […]
FLINT, MI – The New McCree Theatre’s mission is to tell the African American story in the African American voice. Its executive director, Charles Winfrey, is making sure of that. As the executive director for the past 19 years, Winfrey is responsible for many things at The New McCree Theatre, including writing his own plays. […]
“I’m excited to teach students who have a natural curiosity about what it means to be human in Black skin,” he said. Much of Webb’s research and creative work examines spirituality and sexuality in the Black southern experience. Whether it’s writing a play or teaching an acting class, he believes theatre should aim to tell […]