Broad Views On Broadway Announces 2018 - 2019 Season

Throughout the 2018-2019 season, Broad Views on Broadway presents 10 Community Initiatives ('Recycle, Re-Use, Restore', 'Wellness Through The Arts', 'Pitching Yourself and Other Projects', and more) to connect their theatre community with its audience and resources.

They offer a free Theatre For Young Audience Collective available to inner-city students whose families make less than $40,000. Their most exciting addition is 6 In-House Artists developing new LGBTQ and POC works! Broad Views on Broadway's In-House Artist program is new to this season, providing stipends, dramaturgical observations, and production assistance to artists with works in development.

This year Broad Views on Broadway will be showcasing the work of Janelle Lawrence, Janet Onye, Shann Smith, Morgan Dean, Kamaria Hodge, and Brandon Smith. These artists are ready to show what they have been working on, serving queer, black, and unapologetic stories to the public. BVOB (Broad Views on Broadway) strives to present LGBTQIA+ & POC works and give them permission to take up space while providing resources to develop their work.

Broad Views on Broadway's first In-House Artist of 2019 is Janet Oyne, who is presenting her one-woman show ESCALATOR 7pm on March 15th at the Triad Off-Broadway Theatre. Escalator combines the theatrical elements of solo performance and musical cabaret to tell an urban story of redemption despite all odds. Featuring original live music, visual imagery, text, and intimate storytelling, Escalator recollects the coming-of-age story of a Nigerian-American girl living in New York City whilst navigating through love, depression, poverty, self-rejection, and existential questioning. Part autobiographical, part interactive, Escalator validates the power, strength, and resilience of anyone who feels forgotten, uncelebrated, or marginalized.

Tickets are available here [http://www.triadnyc.com/event/3b5bba961c3cb8109b61aac81ddf0dec]

In May BVOB will present the superhero suicide story to go dark for! Shann Smith will be presenting his show BLACKOUT on May 16th. Directed by Jennie Russianoff BLACKOUT is a superhero drama that delves into themes of grief, family, suicide, and mental illness through the point of view of Cassie Robertson AKA Blackout, a superhero with the not so perfect touch. Through Cassie's eyes we see how the turmoil of her mentor's suicide has burdened her and the effect it's having on her, her family, and her powers.

On June 21st BVOB will present THEM, by Morgan Dean, following Maren, a young queer woman who fresh out of college finds out that her cousin (and friend) has been arrested for child molestation. Years later, she visits her cousin in prison and, through flashbacks, navigates her family's hidden past, her father's homophobia, and what love means to her.

In February and April, Broad Views on Broadway will produce 2 Development Labs, showcasing 20 minutes of new works! A part of our In-House Artist are Brandon Smith and Kamaria Hodge of K+B Productions presenting GOLDEN: Black Boy Joy conceptualized, a play. GOLDEN is a Black mid-20s-year-old man, who is sensitively aware of the world around him. Raised by a stoic and overbearing Black father whose views on masculinity are determined by his own cold and unrelenting definition, and a sensitive, loving-but-old-fashioned mother. Golden finds his ideas of manhood at war with the reality his family has created. He constantly questions if his black manhood allows him to be a joyful, sensitive, and vulnerable human being.

Broad Views on Broadway is going into its 6th year and sponsored by Arete Living Arts. For more information on any of BVOB's programs or shows visit www.broadviewsonbroadway.com!

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