The Guadalupe Presents Soy Malintzin, November 18
by A.A. Cristi - November 04, 2022 The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center presents Soy Malintzin, an original production by the Guadalupe Dance Company, accompanied by Mariachi Azteca de América. Soy Malintzin will be held at the historic Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe Street on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 at 8 p.m. Commissioned and present... 
'Portland's Complicity in African Enslavement' Presentation Will Be Held at First Parish This Weekend
by Stephi Wild - May 26, 2022 Seth Goldstein, instructor at Maine College of Art and educational director of Atlantic Black Box, will speak Sunday, May 29, 2022, at 10 a.m. at First Parish Unitarian Universalist, 425 Congress St. His talk will cover “Portland’s Complicity in African Enslavement,” growing out of his work with Atl... 
Michael Mayer-Directed AIDA To Open The Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Season
by A.A. Cristi - December 20, 2022 Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will helm a production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera Aida to open the 2024-25 season at New York's Metropolitan Opera.... 
The National Park Service Birthday Announced At The African Burial Ground National Monument
by A.A. Cristi - August 04, 2023 The National Park Service have announced that the African Burial Ground National Monument is presenting in-person programming for the National Park Service's birthday. ... 
PLAY THE HAND THAT'S DEALT YOU Will Be on View Beginning This Week
by Stephi Wild - June 08, 2023 Beginning June 8, 2023, Fort Gansevoort will present Play The Hand That’s Dealt You, the first New York solo exhibition of Alabama-based artist Yvonne Wells.... 
Jamez McCorkle Brings His Acclaimed Lead Performance To Boston In Rhiannon Giddens And Michael Abel's OMAR
by A.A. Cristi - December 01, 2022 Casting and production announcements for Boston Lyric Opera's spring 2023 performances are being released today, including performers in BLO's premiere production of Bluebeard's Castle/Four Songs in March 2023 and the New England premiere of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels' new opera, Omar in May... 
Review: THE MOST SPECTACULARLY LAMENTABLE TRIAL OF MIZ MARTHA WASHINGTON at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
by Rachel Weinberg - September 15, 2022 What did our critic think of THE MOST SPECTACULARLY LAMENTABLE TRIAL OF MIZ MARTHA WASHINGTON at Steppenwolf Theatre Company? Steppenwolf’s season opener THE MOST SPECTACULARLY LAMENTABLE TRIAL OF MIZ MARTHA WASHINGTON is a wild fever dream of a play. James Ijames’s play asks audiences to grapple wi... 
World Premiere of SONGS IN FLIGHT Comes to The Met Next Thursday
by Stephi Wild - January 06, 2023 In 2019, Cornell University started “Freedom on the Move,” a database of “runaway ads” collected from early newspapers in the United States. These ads, placed by enslavers, preserve snapshots of more than 30,000 enslaved people who took their fate into their own hands, liberating themselves from a c... 
Special Offer: Limited Tickets Available for Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA: In Concert!
by BWW Special Offer - September 21, 2022 Special Offer: Limited Tickets Available for Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA: In Concert!... 
World Premiere Of TROUBLE THE WATER Recounts Extraordinary Story Of African American Hero Robert Smalls
by A.A. Cristi - June 15, 2022 Inspired by the little-known, larger-than-life true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War, Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum presents the world premiere of Trouble the Water, freely adapted by Ellen Geer from the 2019 award-winning historical novel by Rebecca Dwight... 
Historic Hudson Valley Expands Tours Of Historic Landmarks Beginning July 20
by A.A. Cristi - July 17, 2023 In response to growing visitor demand, Historic Hudson Valley has announced the expansion of tours at three of Westchester County's iconic historic sites: Washington Irving's Sunnyside, Philipsburg Manor, and Union Church at Pocantico Hills. Starting July 20, these locations will extend operations t... 
Wyandanch Public Library Holds Annual Juneteenth Celebration In Suffolk County, June 17
by A.A. Cristi - June 13, 2023 Wyandanch Public Library in Suffolk County, New York celebrates Juneteenth with their annual community street festival on Saturday, June 17th (rain date June 24th) beginning at noon.... 
HartBeat Ensemble Presents Connecticut Premiere Of Kyle Bass Drama POSSESSING HARRIET
by A.A. Cristi - September 18, 2023 HartBeat Ensemble presents the Connecticut premiere of 'Possessing Harriet,' a Kyle Bass drama. Don't miss this powerful and thought-provoking production.... 
Philipsburg Manor Open For Tours Celebrating Juneteenth
by A.A. Cristi - June 03, 2022 Philipsburg Manor, the country's first living history museum to focus on slavery in the colonial North, will be welcoming visitors for Juneteenth, observed on Monday, June 20. Guided tours of the site will be offered between 10:30am-3:30pm.... 
Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome Will Direct DUST OF EGYPT at NY Theater Festival
by Stephi Wild - November 03, 2022 Karin Abarbanel's 60-minute play dramatizes the fight of Sojourner Truth, the Black abolitionist and women's rights advocate, to save her enslaved son....
African Burial Ground National Monument To Present Juneteenth Programming
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2023 The National Park Service has announced that the African Burial Ground National Monument is presenting in-person programming for Juneteenth 2023. ... 
THIRST FOR FREEDOM Comes to NH Theatre Project
by Stephi Wild - September 12, 2023 New Hampshire Theatre Project opens its 2023/2024 MainStage Season with Thirst for Freedom by Emory Wilson on Friday, September 22. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!... 
Opera Exposures Presents LET'S CELEBRATE UNCLE TOM At St. Mark's in the Bowery
by A.A. Cristi - September 28, 2022 Back by popular demand 'Let's Celebrate Uncle Tom!,' presented by Opera Exposures, explores the harrowing saga behind the character made infamous in the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic. ...
Washington Stage Guild Wraps Up Season With Richard Strand's Civil War Set BEN BUTLER
by Stephi Wild - February 28, 2023 The Washington Stage Guild closes its 2022-2023 season, a “Season of Transitions,” with the area premiere of Ben Butler by Richard Strand, directed by Helen Hayes Award winner Kasi Campbell (The Dazzle, Rep Stage).... 
World Channel Celebrates Juneteenth With 19 Films
by Michael Major - June 14, 2022 Selections from its curated playlist by noted filmmakers including Stanley Nelson, Ken Burns, Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Sam Pollard and Yoruba Richen run all month on a variety of platforms, including WORLD Channel, WorldChannel.org, WORLD Channel’s YouTube Channel and Facebook page, PBS Pas... 
EQUIANO RUM Celebrates Juneteenth with Commemorative Cocktail Recipe
by Marina Kennedy - June 14, 2023 In honor of Juneteenth on 6/18, Equiano has created the “Freedom Breeze” cocktail and we have the recipe for our readers!...
Harvard Square Celebrates Juneteenth With Spotlight, Mirror And Book, A Fleeting Art Installation
by A.A. Cristi - June 20, 2022 Juneteenth or Freedom Day, commemorates the end of enslavement for African descendants of the transatlantic slave trade. While the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 publicly declared the end of slavery in the United States, freedom was not fully realized for enslaved people in Texas until June 19th,... 
Photos: First Look At The World Premiere of TROUBLE THE WATER At Theatricum
by Grace Cutler - July 23, 2022 Inspired by the little-known, larger-than-life true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum presents the world premiere of Trouble the Water, freely adapted by Ellen Geer from the 2019 award-winning historical novel by Rebecca Dwigh... 
Local Non-Profits Partner For A Weekend Of Events Celebrating Juneteenth
by Stephi Wild - May 02, 2023 Morristown Juneteenth Weekend brings together five non-profit organizations to create a three-day event that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. ... 
Previews: ARTS LEGACY REMIX - JUNETEENTH at Straz Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - June 15, 2023 Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, is a historic day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States on June 19, 1865. This year's Arts Legacy REMIX Juneteenth celebration aims to honor the cultural significance of this date through the power of dance and artist... |
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