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The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many individuals -- many whites but predominently black -- who knew only of the local efforts to aid fugitives and not of the overall operation. Still, it effectively moved hundreds of slaves northward each year -- according to one estimate, the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850.

Sci-Fi Opera THE BRADBURY TATTOOS To Premiere This July Photo Sci-Fi Opera THE BRADBURY TATTOOS To Premiere This July
by A.A. Cristi - June 01, 2018

In the nearly 70 years since late author Ray Bradbury published 'The Illustrated Man,' various short stories in the classic science fiction anthology have been adapted for film, stage and television. Now, four of them serve as the basis for 'The Bradbury Tattoos,' an ambitious new rock opera, schedu...


BWW Review: Utopia Opera Takes on Thea Musgrave's STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN Photo BWW Review: Utopia Opera Takes on Thea Musgrave's STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN
by Richard Sasanow - November 15, 2018

Short on financial resources but long on ambition, Utopia Opera started its eighth season last weekend with a New York premiere: Thea Musgrave's THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. It's a 90-minute chamber version, orchestrated by composer Julian Grant, of Musgrave's full-length, two-act HARRIET, THE WOMAN...


On Her Shoulders presents PAULINE HOPKINS, 3/15 Photo On Her Shoulders presents PAULINE HOPKINS, 3/15
by A.A. Cristi - February 19, 2018

On Her Shoulders is pleased to present a staged reading of PECILIAR SAM by Pauline Hopkins, directed by Arminda Thomas on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Doors open at 6:45pm for a prompt start at 7:00pm with The Play in Context Introduction by Celia Braxton, who situates the script in its historical time...


UMS Announces Three Week Festival 'No Safety Net' Photo UMS Announces Three Week Festival 'No Safety Net'
by Julie Musbach - January 16, 2018

From January 17 to February 3, 2018, the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan (UMS) presents No Safety Net, a three-week theater festival of four productions that foster timely conversations around slavery, terrorism, transgender identity, and radical wellness and healing. Two of...


BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME, Soho Theatre Photo BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME, Soho Theatre
by Dzifa Benson - September 14, 2018

The boundary razing two-hander created and performed by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R Sheppard Underground Railroad Game doesn't give too much of its own game away in the pre-show literature. From the first two words of the title, we can surmise that it has something to do with slavery but what does ...


Steve Hackett Releases Second Single Off of Upcoming Album Photo Steve Hackett Releases Second Single Off of Upcoming Album
by Kaitlin Milligan - December 21, 2018

Following the tremendous success of 2017's The Night Siren (charted at #22 in Germany, #28 in the UK), legendary former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett releases his new studio album At The Edge Of Light on the 25th January 2019. The album which features ten songs, sees Steve unite a vast amount of s...


Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12 Photo Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12
by Audition Roundup - November 12, 2017

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, November 12, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition! ...


Travel Channel's MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM Specials Return 12/28 Photo Travel Channel's MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM Specials Return 12/28
by Emily Bruno - December 01, 2017

History enthusiast and explorer Don Wildman will venture back into the field to unravel the mysteries of 13 iconic and fascinating tales in new single-topic episodes of 'Mysteries at the Museum.' The first of the specials, 'Race to the Antarctic: Mysteries at the Museum,' premieres on Thursday, Dece...


Angela Bassett Joins UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY Photo Angela Bassett Joins UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
by Julie Musbach - March 14, 2018

Academy Award-nominee, Angela Bassett will join Kathleen Battle as a guest narrator in Battle's program Underground Railroad: A Spiritual Journey accompanied by pianist Joel Martin and the LA-based choir, The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing A...


Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12 Photo Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12
by Audition Roundup - November 12, 2017

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, November 12, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition! ...


Cleveland Public Theatre presents STATION HOPE 2018 Photo Cleveland Public Theatre presents STATION HOPE 2018
by A.A. Cristi - March 13, 2018

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is proud to announce CPT's fifth annual Station Hope event on Saturday, May 5, beginning at 6:30pm on the grounds of St. John's Episcopal Church, 2600 Church Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Station Hope is a jubilant community event inspired by the Underground Railroad and Cl...


Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12 Photo Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12
by Audition Roundup - November 12, 2017

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, November 12, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition! ...


Children's Theatre of Cincinnati Sales Manager Appointed to OAPN Board Photo Children's Theatre of Cincinnati Sales Manager Appointed to OAPN Board
by Julie Musbach - June 13, 2018

Violet Rae Webster, Sales Manager for The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati has been appointed to the Board of the Ohio Arts Professional Network (OAPN)....


Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12 Photo Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12
by Audition Roundup - November 12, 2017

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, November 12, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition! ...


BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME is Searing and Sensational at Woolly Mammoth Photo BWW Review: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME is Searing and Sensational at Woolly Mammoth
by Barbara Johnson - April 08, 2018

It can be unsettling to reflect on the experience of learning about slavery in middle school: was the content accurate and appropriate, or harmful to our perceptions of history and the present day? Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard explore this - and much more - in their creative, fearless prod...


Oratorio Society Of New York Presents Two World Premieres, 5/7 Photo Oratorio Society Of New York Presents Two World Premieres, 5/7
by A.A. Cristi - April 23, 2018

World premieres of an oratorio about the Underground Railroad that sets narratives of slaves running for freedom and their lives, and a work that sets poems calling for peace in Farsi, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and English: Sanctuary Road, music by Paul Moravec and text by Mark Campbell based upon th...


Cleveland Public Theatre Presents STATION HOPE 2018- A Celebration of Hope, A Dialogu Photo Cleveland Public Theatre Presents STATION HOPE 2018- A Celebration of Hope, A Dialogue for Change
by A.A. Cristi - May 03, 2018

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is proud to announce CPT's fifth annual Station Hope event on Saturday, May 5, from 6:30 - 10:00pm on the grounds of St. John's Episcopal Church, 2600 Church Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Station Hope is a jubilant community event celebrating Cleveland's social justice heri...


Oratorio Society Of New York Presents Two World Premieres, 5/7 Photo Oratorio Society Of New York Presents Two World Premieres, 5/7
by A.A. Cristi - April 23, 2018

World premieres of an oratorio about the Underground Railroad that sets narratives of slaves running for freedom and their lives, and a work that sets poems calling for peace in Farsi, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and English: Sanctuary Road, music by Paul Moravec and text by Mark Campbell based upon th...


Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12 Photo Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12
by Audition Roundup - November 12, 2017

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, November 12, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition! ...


Sci-Fi Opera THE BRADBURY TATTOOS To Premiere This July Photo Sci-Fi Opera THE BRADBURY TATTOOS To Premiere This July
by A.A. Cristi - June 01, 2018

In the nearly 70 years since late author Ray Bradbury published 'The Illustrated Man,' various short stories in the classic science fiction anthology have been adapted for film, stage and television. Now, four of them serve as the basis for 'The Bradbury Tattoos,' an ambitious new rock opera, schedu...


Kathleen Battle Takes the Stage in 'Underground Railroad – A Spiritual Journey' Photo Kathleen Battle Takes the Stage in 'Underground Railroad – A Spiritual Journey'
by Julie Musbach - March 02, 2018

American soprano Kathleen Battle's luminous voice has been called by The Washington Post "...without qualification, one of the very few most beautiful in the world."  Yet beyond the glory of her singing, in a career filled with countless accolades, honors and major milestones, what has perhaps disti...


5th Annual Station Hope Celebration Features 250 Artists Performing Social Justice-in Photo 5th Annual Station Hope Celebration Features 250 Artists Performing Social Justice-inspired Works
by A.A. Cristi - April 13, 2018

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is proud to announce CPT's fifth annual Station Hope event on Saturday, May 5, from 6:30 - 10:00pm on the grounds of St. John's Episcopal Church, 2600 Church Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Station Hope is a jubilant community event celebrating Cleveland's social justice heri...


Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12 Photo Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12
by Audition Roundup - November 12, 2017

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, November 12, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition! ...


Three Weeks Of Radical Theater, Two U.S. Premieres Announced at UMS NO SAFETY NET Photo Three Weeks Of Radical Theater, Two U.S. Premieres Announced at UMS NO SAFETY NET
by A.A. Cristi - December 07, 2017

From January 17 to February 3, 2018, the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan (UMS) presents No Safety Net, a three-week theater festival of four productions that foster timely conversations around slavery, terrorism, transgender identity, and radical wellness and healing. Two of...


Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12 Photo Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Nov. 12
by Audition Roundup - November 12, 2017

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, November 12, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition! ...






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