Black stars are getting their flowers on one of Hollywood’s biggest sidewalks. The Hollywood Walk of Fame has announced its Class of 2027, and several Black entertainers, artists, and media figures are among the honorees…
We are looking for creative and energetic people for our annual production of Black Nativity! Friday, July 31, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Saturday, August 1, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Requirements: Bring what it…
Few works in American performing arts have achieved the enduring impact of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Premiering on January 31, 1960, at New York’s 92nd Street YM-YWHA, the 36-minute ballet has become the most widely seen…
“From Blocking to Broadcast” will support student production and distribution through Palmer’s KeyTV Network UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) is bringing Emmy winner Keke Palmer into its community fold for a new…
Dreamgirls is officially returning to Broadway this fall, and Jennifer Hudson announced on her talk show that she’s on the producing team. We love this for her. The original 1981 cast gave us Sheryl Lee…
Oscar Micheaux The barrier-breaking Black American filmmaker Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was, first and foremost, a writer.Born in Illinois in 1884, to parents who had been enslaved, Micheaux published his first novel in 1913 and went…
Aida Overton Walker Born on Valentine’s Day in 1880, dancer, choreographer, actress and vaudeville performer Aida Overton Walker started out singing and dancing in musical theater. She was a sensation from the get-go. She met…
Bert Williams Bert Williams, a founding genius of Black American comedy, was born in the Bahamas in 1874. He grew up in Riverside, Calif. and started in the vaudeville business in San Francisco. There, he…
Ira Aldridge Ira Aldridge was an American-born actor who, like many Black American artists, had to leave the country to find work, creative satisfaction and respect. Following several triumphant tours of Europe and Russia, Aldridge…
James Hewlett unknown-1839Actor In 1821, six years before slavery was finally abolished in New York, two Black men – James Hewlett and William Alexander Brown – co-founded America’s first Black theater company, the African Grove…