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Douglas Lyons wants to invite Black audiences for ‘Chicken & Biscuits’ on Broadway
His Broadway debut is part of a historic season that contains eight Black playwrights.
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Woodie King Jr. finally gets a Tony Award for bringing color to the stage
New Federal Theatre founder is honored for a lifetime of discovering talent
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Broadway needs big structural change. The producers behind The Theatre Leadership Project are hoping to deliver it.
A series of paid fellowships will create positions for Black creative producers, company and stage managers
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Adrienne Warren and Katori Hall of Broadway’s ‘Tina’ don’t know when theater will return, but they’re working to make it better
The Tony nominees talk about how the pandemic has changed them
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Cicely Tyson led a generation that defined themselves with dignity
Her death marks the winding down of an era when Black glamour and elegance wasn’t just a choice, but an insistence on Black humanity
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George C. Wolfe’s appropriation blues
The director of the film adaptation of ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ has been tripping cultural land mines for decades
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A COVID-19 vaccine is here, but theaters seek a New Deal
Theatermakers want a modern-day version of the Great Depression’s Federal Theatre Project
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A mother gets inducted into the movement in Adrienne Kennedy’s ‘Sleep Deprivation Chamber’
Revival of play about police brutality is unfortunately always ‘timely’
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What the Constitution means to us
Heidi Schreck’s play, now streaming on Amazon Prime, helps us see the hope — and the many holes — in our founding document